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Scottish dad with no ticket starts 29 hour drive to see Rangers play Europa League

An especially dedicated Rangers fan has set off on a 29-hour drive to Seville in a transit van in order to see his beloved team in the Europa League Final. They only problem is that he doesn’t have a ticket.

48-year-old Lee Penrice from Kinglassie in Fife began his almost 30 hour trip on Monday and expects to arrive in Spain in the early hours of Wednesday.

The Diageo worker was serving in Afghanistan the last time Rangers played a UEFA final in 2008 and he vowed to never miss the chance to seem them play the final ever again.

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