To be honest, now I feel flat."The players will get a deserved holiday. Like me, they know that at Rangers the pressure just goes on and on. The historical significance of what we have done has not sunk in. In fact, I have to continue and keep winning, football is such a fickle game, you cannot relax for a moment."McLeish is shrewd enough to make that judgement for himself. Though he knows only too well how his mentor went from deity to dummy in the eyes of Old Trafford's most critical elements just a few short seasons after he had delivered the European Cup to Manchester United.He admitted that Rangers' success this season owed a great deal to failure in Europe. An early Uefa Cup exit cleared the decks for a domestic assault. "We could never have won the treble if we'd had a good run in Europe," McLeish stated.Success, as Fergie has probably told him, is fleeting.
The title was not taken from Celtic until a penalty in the last seconds of the campaign, and on Saturday the margin of error was equally wafer-thin.Had Barry Smith's volley not cannoned back off the inside of the post in three minutes, then Dundee might have been on their way to their first major honour since Alan Gilzean and co won the league title in 1962. Duffy's team offered the greater threat, while their young defence - Zurab Khizanishvili is a year younger than his 22-year-old companions Lee Mair and Dave Mackay - coped so well that McLeish had withdrawn his two strikers, Shota Arveladze and Michael Mols, well before the hour.Indeed, Khizanishvili is on his way to Ibrox this summer to replace Amoruso, for whom an offer to join Blackburn Rovers has been gratefully received. However, the latter profited from the former's one mistake, conceding a foul near the corner flag which allowed Neil McCann to whip in the free-kick which Amoruso powered past Julian Speroni."Hopefully it will not be another 39 years before we are in the cup final," Duffy said later. "However, I think we have shown that we can compete with the best. We've got Europe to look forward to and I'm proud of my players for restoring our reputation."Dundee (4-3-1-2): Speroni; Mackay (Milne, 77), Mair, Khizanishvili, Hernandez; Rae (Brady, 84), Nemsadze, Smith; Burchill (Novo, 70); Caballero, Lovell.
Substitutes not used: Langfield (gk), Carranza.Rangers (4-4-2): Klos; Ricksen, Amoruso , Moore, Numan (Muscat, 69); De Boer, Ferguson, Malcolm, McCann; Arveladze (Thompson, 55), Mols (Ross, h-t). Substitutes not used: McGregor (gk), McLean.Referee: K Clark (Scotland).Bookings: Dundee: Novo Rangers: Arveladze, McCann.Man of the match: Amoruso.. Jose Maria Olazabal fired a third-round 66 to rocket himself into a challenging position in the Memorial Tournament here on Saturday. The Spaniard holed birdies on the second, fifth and eighth before finishing with three more in four holes to move him to eight under in the tournament - within five shots of leader Kenny Perry, who shot a two-under-par 70 to stay ahead of Lee Janzen on 11 under. However, a double-bogey on the par-four 14th spoiled his round as he moved to three under.Tiger Woods had a day to forget as crowds saw the him record a treble-bogey seven at the par-four sixth and with five other dropped shots in a round of 76, only four birdies prevented a total disaster.Two bogeys in his first five holes scuppered Padraig Harrington's chances of forcing himself up the leaderboard.
A run of birdies from six to nine appeared to have redeemed him, but dropped shots on 14, 16 and 17 made it a disappointing day for the Irishman, with a birdie three at the last little consolation as he slipped back to two under.Sweden's Jesper Parnevik also shot a one-over-par 73 to leave him at two under for the tournament, while Lee Westwood's 75 dropped him to one under.Hemel Hempstead-born Luke Donald had a nightmare third round containing four double bogeys as he shot 80 to drop from five under to three over.* In Aurora, Illinois, Annika Sorenstam birdied the last five holes to take a two-stroke lead into the final round of the Kellogg-Keebler Classic. She ended with a six-under 66, the second-best round of the day, giving her a two-day score of 16-under 128 Mhairi McKay hit nine birdies on her way to a 64 for 130.. In the Ian Poulter masterplan, winning the Wales Open by three shots and collecting a mere £250,000 probably did not feature too heavily. There are quantum physicists who would blush at such a leap.Not that you will ever find this Milton Keynes golfer with a red face after doing something so expected as winning. Red streaks in his hair, yes, and this Arsenal fan's gleaming Ferrari - parked directly outside the clubhouse with the number plate "I4N P" (the "4" has been made to look like an "A") - shows how highly he rates himself. And after 72 holes of superlative golf, and four rounds in which he was never once headed, it is easy to see why.There were moments yesterday when self-doubt could have crept in, as they easily could have during Saturday's third-round when, at one stage, he watched a six-shot lead shrink to one. But Moseley's march to stand one shot off Poulter with one hole to go was tripped up when he bogeyed the last.On that final tee the Australian was probably thinking of birdie to catch Poulter, but in the cruel light of hindsight he will see that a par would have earned him outright second place and £55,000 more.
