Willie Thornton
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"William Thornton" Military Medal/MM was a Scotland/Scottish Football (soccer)/footballer and manager (football)/manager. His entire senior playing career was spent with Rangers F.C./Rangers, and he is considered to be one of the greatest players in the club's history. He served in World War II in the Scottish Horse winning the Military Medal for his bravery.

Thornton played for Rangers from 1936 to 1954, then became a manager with first Dundee F.C./Dundee and then Partick Thistle F.C./Partick Thistle. He later returned to Rangers as assistant to David White (Scottish footballer)/Davie White in the summer of 1968 and was briefly caretaker manager in 1969 after White's dismissal. Thornton then worked as assistant to William Waddell (footballer)/William Waddell until 1972. The side won the two matches that he took charge. Thornton is one of Scotland's all time top scorers, with 139 Scottish Football League/League goals.

He died in August 1991 at the age of 71.

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We need to take this and build because we still have the balance of our season left.

I knew our shooters were going to break out. We have four or five kids that can put the ball in the hole. We have worked on it a lot. Once a couple shots went in our mental outlook was a ton better.

Obviously. we're playing better. We're still not where we want to be. We're still a work in progress.