This Sunday, Glasgow Rangers and Partick Thistle, from the second division, played for the Scottish Cup in a match that had a curious move that exposed the miseries and benefits of football. It was like this, the striker Malik Tillman -20-year-old American who plays for Rangers- disputed a ball and bent his knee. The game was stopped because it seemed that the kid had been badly injured, but no.
The referee gave the ball back to the PT defenders but Tillman stole it, ran into the goalkeeper he eluded and made it 2-1. The rivals almost lynched him and his companions did not know how to defend him. The discussions and struggles took place inside the field and outside, on the substitute benches.
Until Michael Beale, Rangers coach, ordered his players to let themselves score a goal. Patrick’s manager Ian McCall walked up to his colleague and squeezed his hand in acknowledgment of the great ‘fair play’ gesture. Thus, 15 minutes from the end of the game the matter was 2 to 2.
But finally, James Sands, of Glasgow Rangers, scored the 3-2 and classified his team to the quarter-finals of the Scottish Cup.
The goals of the match
