These Alex Salmond love letters to Walter Smith make me want to vomit.
"Congratulations on leading Rangerd to their 21st League Cup success at Hampden on
Sunday. It was an incredtble achievement for you to win your 20th major trophy as Rangers
manager in your last season at the club.
You should also be given great credit for making Rangers as competitive as they were in
Europe this season,especially given the financial constraints that you have been operating
under since you returned to the club.
It was a very tough Champions league group~and the club performed well to finish third and
progress into the Europa League, where only a couple of poor decisions not to award
Rangers penalties helped deny you a place in the quartet-finals at the expense of PSV."
It's like a parody. This one is even worse.
"Dear Walter
I am writing to offer you my warmest congratulations for leading Rangers to a third
successive Scottish Premier League title on what was your last day in charge of the club.
Your distinguished career has been nothing short of truly remarkable, and that this league
title win took your tally at Rangers to twenty-one trophies is testament to your ability to bring
the very best out of the players and staff around you.
However, it is not just your achievements on the field which will remain uppermost in my
mind it is also the way you have conducted yourself off the pitch that is so impressive.
Football, as our national game, as we both know only too well can sometimes be all
consuming but your abifity to rise above seemingly insurmountable pressure is an inspiration
for any young manager or player involved in the game.
I told you once that I thought that taking an under-resourced side to a European final in 2008
was one of the finest examples of management that I have ever seen -a true test of ability.
I would like to wish you every future success as the next chapter in your life begins."