‘Daily Ranger giving it large’ ‘It’s falling apart ffs’ ‘Asbestosdome’ Record reporter gets misty eyed over dodgy Czech tweet

Soccer Football - Champions League Qualifying - Play-off First Leg - Rangers v PSV Eindhoven - Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - August 16, 2022 Rangers fans outside the stadium before the match Action Images via Reuters/Lee Smith

The Daily Record is drooling over a tweet from a Czech journalist who appears to have overdone the hospitality on offer in Glasgow.

Ibrox Stadium is apparently ‘just class, a football classic, lovely’.

It is the sort of yarn that the Record specialises in relaying to their Army of Readers with daily print sales likely to be able to fit inside Ibrox by the end of this season.

Other than sticking the Club Deck on top of the listed Main Stand Ibrox is virtually unchanged since the early eighties when the Rangers Pools funded three shiny new stands that barely saw a bear’s backside other than for matches against Celtic before the Souness Revolution appeared.

A complete lack of maintenance during the decade before Rangers went into liquidation has left the new club with spiralling costs just to stand still.

Undeterred the Record has now flipped things around to the historic appeal of Ibrox while all around Europe matches are being staged in stadiums with far superior facilities.

It’s one of the famous old stadia in Europe and Blesk writer Jiri Fejgl has been taking it all in. He wrote about captain Ladislav Krejci, who is missing the trip through injury, and said the skipper is missing out on a “football classic, the lovely Ibrox Stadium.” And he went on: “It’s actually an island classic, entering the arena directly from the street, as if you were walking into a house.

“Yet inside is a stadium like the old days. Blue stands, open corners. Modern arenas are built differently, but this is just class.”

Yesterday the Record were passing on the news that James Bisgrove has exciting plans to raise the capacity of Ibrox to 70,000. The same story that the Record has been flogging for over 20 years due to the capacity of Celtic Park.

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