Chris Sutton has rubbished Ally McCoist’s claims that the SPFL should help Rangers’ Champions League quest by postponing league fixtures.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side beat Union Saint Gilloise to set up a playoff round showdown with Ruud van Nistelrooy’s PSV Eindhoven with the first leg to take place at Ibrox next Tuesday. Gers legend McCoist has called on the league authorities to give his former club - and others - a helping hand by postponing league matches preceding big continental nights.
The Light Blues travel to the capital to face Hibs on Saturday, August 20. They the travel to the Netherlands four days later for the second leg and McCoist floated the idea of Rangers being given a free run between their playoff clashes, just as the Dutch FA have afforded PSV. They were due to play Volendam on the same day Rangers take on the Hibees, but that has been shelved to aid their Champions League ambitions.
