Angry Gers set to ditch knee protest

GLASGOW Rangers players will decide whether to stop taking a knee before today’s clash with Celtic as they await action against the racist abuse suffered by Glen Kamara and Kemar Roofe.

While the team decide if the gesture sends out a strong-enough message, the club are demanding ‘unequivocal’ action from UEFA, who have opened an investigation into the ugly scenes during Rangers’ Europa League defeat by Slavia Prague on Thursday. Kamara insists he was called a monkey by Slavia Prague’s Ondrej Kudela, who has denied the allegations and claimed he was punched by Kamara in the Ibrox tunnel after the game.

Meanwhile sick images posted by Slavia Prague ultras on Friday evening showed them holding a banner saying ‘Kamara, just a n ***** ’. The images were eventually taken down but Kamara and Roofe have been targeted on social media with further vile abuse.

Slavia Prague issued a statement yesterday condemning the banner and saying they had asked police to find the fans responsible.

The statement read: ‘The club is absolutely disgusted by the racist photograph published online by a group of alleged “fans” on Friday night. We condemn this act as totally unacceptable, and we distance ourselves from it. It is an unprecedented backstabbing of the club and its ideals.’

UEFA admit they have limited power over social media, prompting Kamara and his teammates to join the clamour for greater punishments to be handed out and offending social media accounts to be deleted swiftly.