Now look, happy Monday to you all.

A slightly chillier welcoming tone to those Rangers fans

who escaped from the home of football with their tails between their legs

thanks to that late Haji Equalizer yesterday.

Boo?

Boo?

Haji's a guy who last season played three times against Athletic Club and on each occasion lost 2-0.

So the bad news for the son of the superstar and all the followers of that modern club on the Clyde is that Athletic broke their run of three scoreless draws with a pump and circumstance win over

Rayo Vallecano at home on Sunday night. Worse still for those with a ponshon for Barry Ferguson's

Boys in Blue and I hope that they can go into the last four of the competition

was the fact that their wonderful goalkeeper, Unai Simone, saved yet another penalty.

That's eight in a year and a half.

Nika Williams also awoke from a long slumber to score a beautiful left-footed purler,

an iron sunset, their powerhouse, the powerhouse who's been missing and who was only just approaching form

in the first leg added his second on the night at Sam Mammes with one of those shots that

resembles the golf hit when you connect with the ball, send it hundreds of yards. Morning Rory,

but it feels like you've swung the club through fresh air and contacted nothing at all

because the contact with the ball has been so sweet. Sunset made looking,

look, made it look scoring from outside the box easy for anybody. The atmosphere

San Mammas was euphoric and probably will be again on Thursday, but modern footballers,

Rangers included, tend not to be intimidated or put off by hostility or huge roaring crowds.

The thing I'd say about the kings of the Basque country

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