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Stewart Wilson

Rangers chairman explains position on Celtic's Green Brigade attending at Ibrox

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Rangers chairman Andrew Cavenagh has discussed away allocations for next season's Old Firm matches at Ibrox, following the ticketing debacle earlier this month.

Prior to the final derby game of the season, Celtic offered Rangers 2,400 tickets, provided that briefs would not be made available to the Union Bears, following events at Ibrox the previous month.

Ahead of next season, Cavenagh opened up on the situation that will inevitably arise "Celtic gave us notice that they intended to either exclude all of our fans if we didn't agree to not give tickets to some sections of our fans. We fought that, and we fought it on principle," he said. [STV]


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"The two principles we were fighting were that one club should not be able to tell another club which of their fans can come to a match, and we also didn't think that a club should create a sporting advantage through that.

"We took that to the SPFL, we got the decision against us, and we have now asked the SPFL to release the materials that were submitted by both clubs, as well as the decision.

"We think that's incredibly important, as we talk about the right allocations going forward, it is important that all the clubs, the public, and maybe even the government see the basis of that decision."

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