Young Wolf in Dark Blue ; Mccarthy Backs Kid Berra to Step Up to the Plate If Weir Is Forced to Miss Out [Scot Region Edition 2]
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AS IF George Burley needed any further defensive dilemmas last night, Rangers veteran David Weir arrived on Scotland duty nursing a knee injury which could yet rule him out of the nation's crunch match against Holland on Saturday evening.
With Stephen McManus and Kirk Broadfoot still causing major concerns, the thought of facing up to the Dutch big guns of Klaas Jan Huntelaar, Robin van Persie and Dirk Kuyt without a tried and trusted backline begins to look like an ever-more frightening prospect ahead of the Group Nine Amsterdam assignment.See the full content of this document
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Young Wolf in Dark Blue ; Mccarthy Backs Kid Berra to Step Up to the Plate If Weir Is Forced to Miss Out [Scot Region Edition 2]
Weir, the 38-year-old safe pair of hands, had seemed like the ideal man to step in and do a job against Holland if, as the nation feared, Celtic skipper McManus wasn't going to make it.
Now even that security blanket is in danger of being tossed away into the tulip fields. ...See the full content of this document
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