UEFA will wait to receive their official delegate's report before deciding what action to take over the supporter unrest which marred the Champions League encounter between Rangers and Unirea Urziceni.
Television pictures showed a number of travelling Rangers fans clashing with Romanian police in the stands while one supporter was seen to rip out a seat during the trouble. Police used CS gas spray in an effort to disperse Gers fans during what Rangers Supporters Assembly chief Andy Kerr described as a "minor incident".
Rangers chief executive Martin Bain is expected to tell UEFA that he believes poor organisation and over-zealous policing contributed to the trouble, but UEFA's director of communications Rob Faulkner told Sky Sports News: "As far as we can establish at the moment it seems there were a number of Rangers supporters who came late into the stadium, and we need to find out why."
He added: "Then there was an issue about where they were going to sit as apparently there were banners already placed there, which resulted in the request to remove some banners, which seems to have ended in a clash between stewards and some supporters.
"We'll wait until we get all the facts in from our official reports and we'll study those before we decide what to do."
Rangers chief Bain condemned the "unacceptable" behaviour of some of the Glasgow club's travelling fans in Bucharest, but was also critical of the shortage of entry access for spectators at the Steaua Stadium.
He claimed a promise that four turnstiles would be open for visiting fans was not kept, causing problems which were compounded, he claimed, by police using CS gas.
When questioned over Bain's concerns over turnstile access, Faulkner said: "If that's the case, definitely [we will look at it]. If that's what had been agreed beforehand... again we'll have this in the reports.
"If that is the case it will be taken into account should we move into any kind of disciplinary case."
He added: "We should get the reports in during the course of today (Thursday), and then we'll look at those. If we need to discuss with people who were there on site we will do that, and obviously we'll take action after that. In the next couple of days we should know."
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#56 respect to you as always aztec, don't worry we all, on here at least, know who the cretins are. They'll probably be on here later either gloating or spitting defiance.
#54 frederick; power to you mate! It's an absolute no-brainer that something 'has' to be done with the scum element on both sides of the divide, and hopefully, there are enough good guys to make that happen. We can do our bit, on here at least, by thumbing the bile merchants out of existence, and having them removed from the forum.
Tell me about it Lysie !! Im a hooligan now ! cause a couple of clowns had a bad day He He !!
#53 heh heh... nice one aztec... who says we don't have a sense of humour on here?
lysdexic, I agree with your points made. I didn't think it was a diatribe, but as azzurri said, a good discussion thread. I only wish that Rangers supporters would accept that you don't have to be a 'Red Hand Loyalist' or 'Fenian Basher' to support Rangers. There's nothing wrong with either Rangers or Celtic having proud traditions and I am well of the traditions and foundations of both clubs but as you guys have said here many times before, we are now in 21st century. I like the banter that's brought onto these forums and of course each of us thinks/beleives our team is better than the other. But real supporters don't have to resort to violence and sectarianism to hold those beleifs. Of the hundreds of thousands of supporters these two clubs have around the world we know it's only a handful of morons that cause the trouble. Sad thing is, it's the handful that make the headlines. Time for change!
your jealous stuart that we have rammies !
Pt51...Danny Dyer last seen leaving the Steaua Stadium with his crew all crying and with seats as souviners..
Burberry cockney accents enough said
WATP = We Are Totally Pratted!!!
WATP... Wasted And Totally Pished
43 - Got the Nastro's / Peroni's chilling have you, mate?? LOL!!
BTW: Azzurri, the Italians DO drink tea, if they come tae ma hoose!! LOL!!
Danny Dyers...new TV show...Worlds Deadliest Teams...1st show is Rangers FC...you pass away with boredom watching them.
WATP...We always Trash places
40 - Let's face the music and SMASH THE PLACE UP, RUN RIOT, FIGHT WI' RA POLIS, etc!!... LOL!!
#41 hoi that's ma neck of the woods ginger lol anyway am joe la toff away to watch the game catch you all later on ......ciao for now
36 - Mazz, there's a large number of Chelsea supporters that work at Heathrow, and before they got their new training ground, they used to train at Harlington, between jct 3-4 on the M4, right next to the motorway.
37 - Don't I know it! Every trip I made to Italia all I was offered was coffee!! Godstrewth - they even named Naples airport after a wee cup of coffee!! LOL!! (for those of you that don't quite "get" that wee "in" joke, the airport is called CAPO DI CHINO).
#33 'but when there's moonlight and music and love and romance......
# 38 stuart ha ha good one has anyone on here seen his porsche that got nicked ?
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