Rangers in apparent truce with SPFL as public Ibrox thanks raises eyebrows at Hampden

Rangers appeared to call a truce in their long running feud with SPFL bosses when they publicly thanked the league for helping Giovanni van Bronckhorst prepare for a shot at European history.

Record Sport revealed on Monday night that an agreement had been provisionally thrashed out to switch Sunday’s top flight trip to Fir Park to a lunchtime kick-off slot on Saturday in order to give Van Bronckhorst and his players an extra 24 hours to get ready for next Thursday’s Europa League semi final first leg against RB Leipzig.

But the rescheduling needed to be rubber-stamped by Police Scotland before it could be officially announced.

And after a long weekend of back channelling between the SPFL and cops the proposed rearrangement was finally approved late on Tuesdsay afternoon.

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The delay prompted Motherwell chief executive Alan Burrows to apologise to his own club’s fans for giving them just four days’ notice.

But it was Rangers who raised eyebrows across Hampden’s sixth floor when they took to social media to expresses their gratitude to those who agreed to facilitate the fixture switch - including the very league body which has been locked in their sights for much of the last two years.

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