Rangers await UEFA action

Rangers should hear in the next 24 hours whether UEFA are to investigate the chaotic crowd scenes during their European clash at Osasuna.

The chief executive of Rangers, Martin Bain, has urged European football's governing body to look into the policing and organisation at Osasuna's El Sadar stadium during Wednesday's UEFA Cup clash.

Many Rangers supporters accessed Osasuna's El Sadar stadium with tickets for home sections, and ugly scenes erupted in the second half when police wielding batons were seen to be striking visiting supporters.

Supporters claimed riot officers charged in for no reason and claim police lashed out with sticks, fists and kicks before, during and after the match in Pamplona.

The Glasgow club have since officially complained to UEFA about the lack of segregation and heavy-handed policing at the match.

UEFA officials have been reviewing evidence provided by their match delegate, while Rangers sent their version of events. Rangers observed that banned hooligans had infiltrated their supporters at the match in Spain.

The club's head of safety and security, Laurence Macintyre, revealed fans who were banned from Ibrox were present as Rangers bowed out of Europe after a 1-0 defeat.

Rangers blocked such supporters from obtaining tickets through official channels, but Macintyre claims they had made the trip anyway and gained entry to the stadium.

Macintyre, having viewed still images of the crowd scenes, told BBC1 Scotland: "There are people in that crowd who should not have been there, and they should not have been because I know I've banned them either indefinitely or I've banned them for life from attending Rangers games.

"One individual I met only last week, and blocked him getting a ticket for that game and told him under no circumstances did I expect him to be there - he's in that picture as well."