Alex McLeish Quotations

When we heard the Rangers fans erupt, we knew it was within our grasp. I got the most dramatic shiver through my entire body when I heard the Rangers fans.

We have run them close but we are not giving up yet.

Neither did any training yesterday and they won't do any contact stuff today, ... but we are hopeful they'll be available.

Barry is struggling with a bad ankle injury and that will be a huge blow for us,

Barry is going to join up with the squad and I hope he's all right for Walter Smith's sake and for the Scottish national team.

Barry Ferguson and Ian Murray were then pushing on from midfield and we thought at 2-2 with eleven against eleven there was only going to be one winner. But sadly we will never know.

Franny is a major doubt for the match.

He is a great coach and I admire him greatly,

He had a great game. His energy is boundless and he snaps into tackles. He is a brilliant inspiration and example to his team mates.

We're pretty sure of their system but it's the changes in personnel which cause us a few problems. At the moment I've not ruled out anything.

We took the lead and it looked as though we could press on and finish them off. But we just lacked the potency in the final third.

I t is look in the mirror time for everyone at Rangers,

I will keep the momentum going in goal with Ronald but I know that Stefan could step any time if called upon,

Players like Maloney and Beattie, who've been on the fringe, will see an opportunity for themselves at Celtic now,

I was very pleased with the players after the exertions of midweek. Now we have to try to finish the season with as much style as we can.

It has put us in a strong position and it's a very good start. It sets us up well but we still have hard work ahead of us.

I thought it was his hamstring. When you see him going down, you think he's torn something. But I don't want to make any harsh predictions.

I thought his comments were fine. At times Porto did outplay us, and we knew they would, but the thing is we rattled them. They had highly gifted players but we rattled them. I asked the players to let Porto know they had been in a game and they did that.

It is difficult to see Celtic losing it now, but we have got to keep going,

We are just looking at keeping the momentum going with Ronald,

We don't know a lot about their new players,

We live for games like these.

The more you lose, the more you don't win.

Shay Given is champing on the door to be involved this weekend

Craig Beattie's quick, he's very fast, and he's got great pace

You only get a second to score a goal in football. In Wolves' case it was 20 seconds

We would love to say we will score five or six goals every week, but we don't want to be disrespectful to other clubs.

I've spoken to him and he's enjoying Rangers.

Soto cleared a ball and took studs in his in-step. I don't think it was too bad, but it was causing him enough discomfort to stop him from running at full speed, so we decided not to take any chances.

It's been a great tournament for me since I came here,

I'm not going to talk about qualification yet but that result allows us to be a bit more more ambitious,

In my playing days, we had a lot of fit guys at Aberdeen,

He's most definitely happy and can't wait to play in the first team in front of the fans,

I came at the time when the club was downsizing. It was an opportunity for me and I have no regrets whatsoever, I'm leaving the club in a good financial position.