Don't You Hate Long Goodbyes? Alex Mcleish Is in the Awkward Position of Having to Talk Up His Rangers Team While Knowing He has No Part in Its Future. Michael Grant Questions What's Left to Say When You Know It's Over?

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THE unthinkable has happened in the Scottish football writers' relationship with Alex McLeish, the Rangers manager. We have just about run out of things to say to each other. What with him going through a long goodbye there hardly seem to be any sensible questions worth asking him any more, and even our supply of daft ones is running low. It all feels a bit awkward, like having to pass the time with someone while they are waiting in a departure lounge.

McLeish meets the Sunday newspaper writers in a little room inside Murray Park which looks as though it doubles up as the janitor's cupboard.

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Don't You Hate Long Goodbyes? Alex Mcleish Is in the Awkward Position of Having to Talk Up His Rangers Team While Knowing He has No Part in Its Future. Michael Grant Questions What's Left to Say When You Know It's Over?

There are times when one of us virtually has to drag a spare chair out of a pile of kit bags and other debris so that the manager of Rangers has somewhere to sit when he comes in to see us, which is usually an hour or more after we've been summoned...

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