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I will admit, not being Scottish I've enjoyed winding up my friends that are Scottish. I've peddled the anti-SFA banter and I've taken wee digs where and when I can, but deep down I was happy to see Scotland competing in a major international tournament again. I still have good memories of France 98, Scotland's last go on the international stage, and how united the country felt then. School kids got off early to go watch the opening match against Brazil, club allegiances were put aside, political differences are forgotten and a real feeling of togetherness filled the country. That is exactly how international football should be. Unfortunately for too long in Scotland now it's been an us and them. Rangers fans have been vilified at every turn by our opponents, the club has been kicked and kicked repeatedly by opposition clubs and fans alike in an attempt to discredit our fantastic club and support. I won't even go into the political side of things, it's there

  Our Past On the 11th March 2017 Pedro Caixinha was appointed manager of Rangers. An appointment that left most of us scratching our heads. Here was a man that had been in football management for 7 years but none of us had heard of him until he'd been linked with the club.  Frantically we googled his name to see what accomplishments he had. To his credit, he had a decent record in Mexican football. Maybe it would be a good appointment and the type of gamble we needed to take to catch up with our rivals? Maybe, just maybe, we had found a tactical genius who had somehow gone under the radar in Europe but was now ready to take the footballing world by storm... Spoiler alert, it wasn't. Pedro was an unmitigated disaster. He just could not grasp that anything less than a win was viewed as a failure for Rangers and the support. He signed players that were not suited for the Scottish game like Cardoso and Herrera, or he signed players that he knew were troubled, like Pena, yet someho