Dave King will discover on Monday if he has to refund £2m in ticket money for the Europa League tie with Young Boys.
On Friday The Athletic and Daily Record reported that sectarian (racist to UEFA) songs and chants were heard at the Europa League tie away to Rotterdam.
Despite the success of the Everyone Anyone campaign the travelling support took great delight in adding their favoured FTP chant onto Sweet Caroline as it was played over the tannoy.
Ibrox has already had two partial ground closures this season for racist actions with the next stage on UEFA’s sliding scale of punishments a full ground closure.
The Scotsman reports:
Meanwhile, Rangers face an anxious wait to discover if they will be forced to play their decisive final Europa League group game against Young Boys behind closed doors following reports of sectarian chanting by a section of their support in Rotterdam. Uefa has already ordered partial stadium closures at Ibrox for the previous two group games as sanctions for “racist behaviour [sectarian chanting]” at the home Europa League qualifier against St Joseph’s in July and in the play-off round against Legia Warsaw in Poland the following month.
A decision on any further punishment by the governing body is expected on Monday, subsequent to referee and delegate reports being appraised.
Uefa takes an especially dim view of “recidivism” over such offences in setting out tariffs for punishments that led to stadium closure. However, sources intimated yesterday that a full closure of Ibrox was not the automatic penalty and that a ban on away supporters for the club’s next European away game could be a possible outcome arising from any new charge as two of the three incidents of late would have occurred away from Ibrox.
The fact that the Daily Record reported on the singing from Rotterdam suggests that it is an issue that is being investigated by UEFA.
So far there has been no comment from the club or from Show Racism The Red Card (Scotland).
No action has ever been taken by the SFA over racist actions from Ibrox. None.