'This Back Five'

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IT hardly stands alongside Chelsea's thick blue line, but the story is impressive in its own right. Rangers go to Dens Park today having conceded only 14 goals in 29 league games. In all competitions, Hearts, Celtic and Auxerre are the only teams to have breached the Ibrox defence twice in a match.

Yet while all the best defensive records are based on consistency of selection, with a back four of names that trip easily off the tongue, this has been achieved with the very opposite structure in place.

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'This Back Five'

Alex McLeish has fielded three goalkeepers, four right-backs, five centre-halves and four left-backs since the campaign began.

Some of the changes have been forced upon him, such as the departures of Craig Moore, Jean-Alain Boumsong and the injury to Stefan Klo...

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