John Lundstram demands Rangers allegiance from Liverpool-daft family as gold dust Anfield tickets come at a price

John Lundstram has snubbed any ticket requests from Liverpool-daft pals as he revealed all of his family will be cheering on Rangers as he prepares for an emotional Champions League tie at Anfield.

The Scouser is returning to his home city desperate to help the Ibrox side pick up their first points in Group A in the first part of the Battle of Britain double header against last season’s runners-up. Lundstram is taking on his boyhood heroes after growing up supporting the red half of Merseyside - while playing for the blue half.

Lundstram has been swamped with requests for gold-dust briefs but the 28-year-old midfield enforcer won’t be handing any over to Liverpool fans. He told Sky Sports: “I’ll have family members at the game - as many as I can have. They will be in our end of course - they’re not getting a ticket if they’re not supporting us! I’ve had loads of messages and people trying to get tickets but you only get a certain amount and anyone supporting Liverpool won’t be getting a ticket for our end.

“All my family members will be supporting me and Rangers but maybe some of my pals might still want Liverpool to win. It was tough growing up going to the games because I was at Everton so I didn’t go to an awful lot of games but I was always a fan from afar.

“Being at Everton it was hard, you can’t really show you are a Liverpool fan but that sort of fades away when you get to the teenage years and it gets a bit more serious playing for Everton so my allegiance faded away a little bit. But when I left the club I got back to trying to support the team.”

Lundstram scored in the win over Borussia Dortmund in Germany in the Europa League last season and admitted they must take the recipe for success on the