'Saddening and embarrassing' - Rangers react to UEFA charges over 'racist' banner

Banners reading 'Keep woke foreign ideologies out - defend Europe' were displayed in the Copland Stand, in the area where the Union Bears ultras group is positioned.
'Saddening and embarrassing' - Rangers react to UEFA charges over 'racist' banner

Rangers fans with a tribute to fan Christopher Potter who died in Besiktas last Thursday, during the UEFA Europa League round of sixteen second leg. Pic: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire.

Rangers have reacted with "embarrassment" after being hit with several UEFA charges over fan behaviour.

The club face action over what UEFA described as "racist and/or discriminatory banner", the throwing of objects and blocking passageways.

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