Scottish Premiership

THIS is the incredible moment showing the Rangers team bus as it tried to leave Ibrox for Celtic Park whilst surrounded by fervent fans setting off pyro.Thousands of supporters gathered on Edmiston Drive to give the players and staff a red-hot send off amidst clouds of smoke, echoes of fireworks and snow blizzards.
Fans surrounded the coach as it departed Ibrox this morning
Supporters chanted, let off flares and banged on the side of the bus
Rangers head to Glasgow’s east end today to take on Celtic hoping to cut the gap at the top of the Scottish Premiership table to just two points.
It would put the Light Blues in prime position to leapfrog the Hoops come the New Year, given they have two games in hand on their city rivals.
And as the coach carrying the squad and the coaching staff set off from Govan, one of the backroom team on the bus captured it all on video.
The footage shows the Ibrox faithful gathered around it and chanted loudly, with drums heard and a large amount of pyro set off.

Several supporters also banged on the side of the bus in a show of encouragement.
Philippe Clement’s men will run out onto the field at Celtic Park in front of 60,000 Hoops fans later this afternoon.
With no away fans present due to the ongoing Old Firm lockout, Gers faithful sought to give their team a passionate send off before the match.
The Union Bears planned a march to Ibrox as a way of showing support given that they couldn’t be at the game in person.
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In the hours hours of this morning, the same fans trolled their Glasgow rivals with a cheeky act of vandalism on an overhead motorway crossing just outside of the city.
The group poured red, white and blue paint on the railway bridge over the M8 at Bargeddie.
Meanwhile heavy snow has fallen at Celtic Park, leaving the pitch covered in white ahead of kick-off,
The weather took a turn at around 10am this morning and more snow is forecast in the Dalmarnock area until around 1pm this afternoon (around half an hour into the match).
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RANGERS target Million Manhoef is the son of a three-time MMA world champion. The Ibrox men are fighting for the signature of the £2.5m-rated Vitesse Arnhem winger. 
Melvin Manhoef pictured in 2015Credit: Getty
He stopped three burglars after punching through their car windows in 2022
Rangers are chasing his son Million (right)Credit: Alamy
Manhoef is one of the hottest prospects in Dutch football and Gers boss Philippe Clement is keen to snare him next month.
The 21-year-old comes from famous athletic stock with his father regarded as a fighting icon in Holland. 
Melvin Manhoef was a feared mixed martial arts and kickboxing legend with one of the best knockout records in history before his retirement last year. 
Nicknamed ‘No Mercy’ the Suriname-born cage fighter extinguished 29 of his opponents in 32 MMA victories. 

Manhoef made his debut at the age of 19 and the stoppage-machine only hung up his gloves when he was 45. 
However, he is arguably next known in the Netherlands for performing a citizen’s arrest on burglars who were casing his home in Amsterdam. 
Manhoef snr made headlines outside the cage in March 2022 when he chased down three criminals. 
The 47-year-old ran them off the road before punching through their window and holding them until police arrived. 
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At the time he said: “I got out of the car shouting, going crazy saying ‘my family’ and this and that, and I went over to their car and threw one punch through the window, cutting my hand.
“I got the guys, I was shouting and pulled them out. I didn’t hit them, but I had to say it, I was going through  my mind. I would do it again for my family.”
Manhoef is revered in combat sports for his longevity and is also the first man to  knock out UFC legend Mark Hunt.

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HIS first job in management saw him win several league titles back to back.Every job since has seen him dismissed from his post.
The former defender’s managerial career hasn’t gone well in recent yearsCredit: Times Newspapers Ltd
Frank (left) joined twin brother Ronald (right) at Rangers in 2004Credit: Kenny Ramsay – The Sun Glasgow
Frank spent just six months as a Rangers playerCredit: News Group Newspapers Ltd
Frank de Boer had a glittering playing career, turning out for some of the biggest clubs in world football.
Coming through Ajax’s famed youth system, de Boer spent more than a decade in the first team, winning five Eredivisie titles, the Champions League, the UEFA Cup and two Dutch Cups.
De Boer would go on to win La Liga during a four-year spell at Barcelona before joining Galatasaray in 2003.
After half a season in Turkey, he moved to Rangers in 2004, finishing the 2003/04 campaign in Glasgow but unable to add to his silverware haul.

His brief spell at Ibrox saw de Boer link up with twin brother Ronald once again, with the duo having played together at Ajax and Barcelona.
Ronald had joined Rangers four years earlier and had won all three major domestic honours.
Both de Boer brothers finished their careers career in Qatar with Al-Rayyan and Al-Shamal, with Frank retiring in 2006.
De Boer quickly moved into coaching, taking charge of Ajax’s academy and also assistant Netherlands boss Bert van Marwijk at the 2010 World Cup, where they reached the final.
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He got his big managerial break in December 2010 when he became caretaker boss at Ajax after Martin Jol’s exit.
He landed the job permanently, and won four titles back-to-back starting with the 2010/11 campaign.
It made de Boer the first manager to ever win four successive Eredivisie championships.
Liverpool reportedly wanted to talk to de Boer in 2012 but he refused the request and stuck with Ajax.
He quit the Amsterdam giants in 2016 after two disappointing seasons as PSV won the title in both.
Since then, his managerial career hasn’t yielded the kind of success he achieved at the beginning of his Ajax spell.
De Boer moved to Inter Milan in August 2016 but was sacked just 85 days later with the Italian giants sitting 12th in Serie A after a run of four defeats in five games.
The next summer, he was appointed Crystal Palace boss and it turned out to be what’s often viewed as one of the worst managerial reigns in Premier League history.
Signing a three-year deal on June 26 2017, de Boer was axed just TEN WEEKS later.
That was after the Eagles lost their opening four matches of the season without scoring a single goal – the first team to have started a top tier season like that for NINETY-THREE years.
Including an EFL Cup game, de Boer, 53, was in charge of Palace for just 450 minute, the shortest reign in terms of game time in the Premier League era.
Jose Mourinho blasted de Boer as “the worst manager in the history of the Premier League.”
After more than a year out, de Boer joined MLS side Atlanta United and won two cup competitions in his first campaign.
But he was axed in July 2020 after Atlanta were eliminated from the MLS Is Back Tournament after losing all of their games.
In September that same year, he succeeded Ronald Koeman as manager of the Dutch national team, but his reign started poorly with no wins from his first four matches.
He was in charge of the Netherlands at the delayed Euro 2020, leading them to the knockout stages as group winners.
But they were turfed out 2-0 by the Czech Republic at the round of 16 and de Boer was fired.
He returned to management earlier this year, signing a two-year contract with Al Jazira of the UAE Pro League.
But unfortunately for, it’s proved to be yet another unsuccessful managerial stint to add to his CV.
De Boer has been sacked AGAIN – and this time after just 14 games in charge.
Combined with his short-lived spell at Palace, it means he’s been dismissed from two of his jobs with just 19 games to show for it.
Al Jazira won the UAE title in 2021, but are languishing in 7th this season having won six of the 14 games with de Boer as boss.
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‘Recent performances and results’ have seen de Boer axed with immediate effect.
De Boer was axed after just five games as Crystal Palace bossCredit: Reuters
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