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Mark Walker

Raging Slavia boss in fresh Rangers blast as he claims Ibrox afters was 'the worst thing I have ever seen in football'

Slavia Prague manager Jindrich Trpisovsky has reignited the war of words with Rangers as he brushed aside the recent race row to claim an alleged post-match incident at Ibrox was "the worst experience of my career".

The latest comments come after a weekend in which Scottish football came together to stand with Ibrox midfielder Glen Kamara after he accused Slavia's Ondrej Kudela of racial abuse in Thursday night's Europa League last 16 tie.

The Premiership champions spoke out but their Czech opposition have alleged Kamara attacked Kudela after the match.

Trpisovsky addressed the incident after a 4-0 win over Opava to continue their charge to the league title but skirted the allegations against his player - even commending the defender for taking part in the match.

He said: "What happened in Glasgow was the worst experience of my career. It's incomprehensible to me what happened there.

"I'll tell you what happened. About 50 minutes after the match, we were asked by Rangers manager Steven Gerrard to meet with UEFA.

"When we came to the tunnel for a meeting, not a word was said, Kamara threw his fists at Kudela and then ran away. I was two metres away.

"I thought the meeting would be about the injury to our goalkeeper, but attacking a player 50 minutes after the match...? It was the worst thing I have ever seen in football.

"As for the terrible injury suffered to our goalkeeper, Ondrej Kolar - it was a tackle that belonged in martial arts and even there, the fighters are ready for it and aren't facing opponents wearing football boots who run at them at full speed.

"He's very lucky that he's ok and the situation could have been a hundred times worse.

Kamara was shaken after Kudela whispered in his ear (Andrew Milligan/POOL/EPA-EFE/REX/Shutterstock)

"The better team won.

"Rangers should look at Leicester City and how they took their elimination. We also won 2-0 there and they shook hands with us. It is said that one must be able to accept defeat and lose. Leicester did it, but it was the exact opposite with Rangers.

"We thought that it would be best for Ondrej to be right back on the field. We had to check his health because he was quite shaken after the attack on him last week. Despite everything that happened to him, you could see how focussed he was.

"He said he was fine to play on Friday and I am just glad he was able to concentrate on the match after what happened."

Meanwhile, Slavia released a video at the weekend where the entire squad - including Kudela - took part in a 'Slavia say no to racism' production.

And the club has also released a fresh statement insisting all the incidents from Thursday night are in the hands of Police Scotland.

It read: "Everything that happened in Glasgow is now examined by UEFA and - on our initiative - by Scottish police.

"We believe everything will be investigated and we will respect the decision. If the outcome warrants it, we will act.

"We hope the situation will not escalate further and we will know the outcome of the investigation soon. We appeal to our fans to restrain from any inappropriate statements, and we believe that Rangers FC will do the same. It is the only possible way.

"There will be no further comment from the club as we do not consider appropriate to engage in the exchange of views on social media where - among other things - death threats to our supporters were published."

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