FORMER CELTIC STRIKER Chris Sutton told Rangers fans not to do “anything naughty” in Seville as he delivered a cheeky parody of official videos from the Ibrox club.
Former Ibrox players including Graeme Souness, Richard Gough and Ian Durrant have appeared in videos on Rangers’ social media channels urging supporters not to let the club down when they are in Spain for the Europa League final.
The former Gers heroes told fans to represent the club well when they travel for Wednesday’s encounter with Eintracht Frankfurt.
Durrant said: “Be respectful, Bears. Go and enjoy yourself, have a party and bring the cup home.”
Souness said: “Have a party but make sure you behave yourself because you’re going there as an ambassador for our football, our great football club, the great Glasgow Rangers.
“You must go there and behave otherwise we’ll get all the trashy headlines which will damage us for a long, long time. Please go there and behave yourselves and have a super time.”
Sutton could not resist the temptation to have a laugh at Celtic’s rivals and issued his own message on his Twitter account.
Wearing one of his old Celtic tops, the pundit said: “Hello there to all the Rangers fans out there in Seville. I’m just following on from the messages from Graeme Souness, Ian Durrant and Richard Gough.
“Please just behave out in Seville and try not to let yourselves down.
“Okay, come on, do the right thing guys. Be good and behave – and don’t do anything naughty out there. Okay?”
Tens of thousands of Rangers fans with or without tickets are expected in the Andalusian capital.
The previous two European finals involving Rangers have been marred by violent scenes.
Rangers were banned from European competition for a year after fans clashed with Spanish police on the Nou Camp pitch at the end of their 1972 European Cup Winners’ Cup final victory over Dynamo Moscow.
There were violent scenes in Manchester city centre in 2008 after an estimated 200,000 fans travelled south ahead of Rangers’ Uefa Cup final defeat by Zenit St Petersburg.
Thirty-nine police officers were injured during the trouble and a Crown Court judge later described it as “the worst night of violence and destruction suffered by Manchester city centre since the blitz”.
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I’m in Seville (working!) and the centre of town is starting to fill up with Rangers fans looking for the “full English breakfast” (no irony there, then) while the Frankfurt fans are in queues in front of cafés (for now). If I remember my history from school, this will probably end up as a street battle between the Calvanist Scots and the Lutheran Germans. It might help that most of the bars will be closed tomorrow and Thursday. Ah well, I could do with a few evenings in.
@Frank Mccluskey: keep us updated from the front line
@Frank Mccluskey: did you get a ticket
@Stephen Keane: say it will be like battlefields of ukraine by kick off
It says it all when all these club heroes have to come out and beg their fans not to wreck the place! Classy club.
Rangers were in two Euro finals and rioted at them both. They are the only side in European club history who were not able to defend their trophy due to being banned from Europe by UEFA cos their fans rioted. Rioted in Manchester the last time.
2022 – The Rangers playing in a hot, Catholic country with a huge travelling support against a German team. What could possibly go wrong?
New club with same fans, have to be told to behave. Seville council has already ordered all bars etc in city centre to either close or not sell alcohol. I know a few Rangers fans who are sound and just normal football fans but they surely have the largest filth element of fans in Europe. No other fan base needs treated this way.
Tell them not to drag their knuckles
S##m