After a pulsating match at Ibrox on Tuesday night (when the final final score should have been about 8-3 to Rangers), credit to Dundee United for a spirited display.

After a pulsating match at Ibrox on Tuesday night (when the final final score should have been about 8-3 to Rangers), credit to Dundee United for a spirited display.

But aren't they in danger of becoming the "new Aberdeen" in that they only seem to try four times a season?

Gordon Barclay, via email

As a Rangers fan I have to compliment Craig Levein's Dundee United for coming to Ibrox and making a match of it. Tonight's game was the most entertaining at Ibrox in a long time with fast-paced end-to-end action.

Who said Scottish football lacks quality?

Colin Kennedy, via email

Onslaught against Rangers continues
J G King's comments (Fans With Laptops, Nov 5) are worthy of a spin-doctor. He describes the singing of offensive songs at Tynecastle as "an example of the work still to be completed by Celtic" then suggests Rangers and other clubs have their share of "halfwits".

Typically we have to listen to the downplaying of any problem concerning Celtic while the onslaught against Rangers continues relentlessly.

Why was there no mention of sectarianism when Mo Johnston, Chris Burke, Barry Ferguson or even Ian Ferguson were subjected to abusive chants and songs during their respective careers?

Call me a cynic but I suspect Mr King isn't a bluenose.

John Thomson, Springburn

Right to embrace their heritage
I HEARTILY concur with Michael McMullen's views regarding the abuse directed at James McCarthy and Aiden McGeady (Fans With Laptops, Nov 5). The players should be commended, not vilified, for exercising their right to embrace their heritage and pledge their footballing futures to the Republic. No-one ever complains when so-called Anglo-Scots are strutting their stuff for Scotland.

I was moved to write after a long vigil in front of the TV last night watching history in the making as the US voted in its first black president. It made all this nonsense about McCarthy, Nacho Novo et al seem so trivial.

Andy Carmichael, Livingston