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SPL CHAMPIONS 2009 |
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It is a great honour and privilege to be addressing you as SPL champions today and
 everyone associated with the Club is delighted to have secured our 52nd league title.
Once again, I would like to thank you for your tremendous support throughout the season, it means a great deal to me, the players, backroom staff and everyone at the Club. Winning the SPL title is a fantastic feeling. We hit form at just the right time in the season and the players deserve great credit for producing results when it really mattered.
We didn’t need to say too much to motivate the players – I’m a great believer that they do that themselves and so it proved and we’re delighted to have come out on top. The players have shown real character and when you consider everything we’ve achieved, it has been a great season. We’ve got to the League Cup final, won the championship and we’ve got the Scottish Cup final next week. The boys deserve a lot of credit for that. Automatic qualification for the UEFA Champions League is also a massive Thank you for your continued support – we receive great backing wherever we travel and it was a fantastic feeling to bring the SPL trophy back to Ibrox yesterday where 30,000 fans were waiting to see us. We look forward to seeing you at Ibrox in 2009/10 for an exciting new season.  Walter Smith
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We were terrific against Dundee United yesterday and I don’t think our goals could have come at better times for us.
thing. It’s important, not only financially, but for the management, players, fans and everyone associated with the Club to be involved at this level.