Rangers manager Walter Smith believes further offensive chanting from supporters will see Ibrox closed and the club possibly frozen out of any European leagues in the future.

UEFA has received an appeal regarding its decision to clear Rangers of sectarian chanting.

Partick chief executive Alan Dick has confirmed the club will appeal to the Scottish Football Association against the Scottish Premier League vote to allow Inverness Caledonian Thistle into the top flight.

THERE is no way of knowing for certain whether the arrow of political correctness has penetrated the shoulder, let alone the heart, of professional football. Somehow you very much doubt it. There remains something distinctly primeval about the game.

Partick Thistle chief executive Alan Dick insisted “nothing untoward” emerged from today’s board meeting and that manager Gerry Collins was still in his job.