Football: De Boer displays his strike rate Rangers 1 Heart of Midlothian 0

From: The Independent (London, England) | Date: September 18, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

RONALD DE BOER paid off another slice of that pounds 4.5m fee when he struck the only goal yesterday that allowed Rangers to close the gap, momentarily, on Hibernian and Celtic at the top of the Scottish Premier League.

The Dutchman was recruited from Barcelona to augment Ibrox's Champions' League ambitions, and indeed has already done so by scoring his first goal for the club in the rout of Sturm Graz five days earlier, but his contribution in trying to repair the damage incurred by that Old Firm denouement three weeks ago and a draw at Dundee last weekend was gratefully received.

De Boer ...

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