Simon Jordan admits he's baffled by the decision to delay Rangers' clash with Napoli.
UEFA announced on Sunday that the Champions League group stage fixture has been pushed back from Tuesday to Wednesday due to the severe limitations on police resources and organisational issues related to the ongoing events surrounding the national mourning for Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II."
Professional football across the UK was postponed at the weekend as a mark of respect following the monarch's passing, aged 96, last Thursday. Rangers ' meeting with the Serie A leaders will now go ahead but no away fans will be permitted to attend Ibrox, with a similar ruling in place when Giovanni van Bronckhorst's side head for Naples in October. TalkSPORT pundit Jordan confessed he found the situation "perplexing" but says Rangers now have the chance to atone for their "puerile" 4-0 defeat away at Ajax last week.
He said: "Is there a thinking I've missed with away fans not being allowed to come? Is it simply policing, is it? So, we have a policing problem in Scotland, do we? I find that perplexing but if that is the prescription to make sure that the requirements of the police and the safety of the stadium is maintained, I'd like to think if we're talking about football fans respecting the values and tradition of this country then there wouldn't need to be that many safety issues around a football stadium.
"Let's just say that there is and if the prescription is to maintain sporting fitness and away fans can't attend either game, I guess that's the answer to a slightly unnecessary conundrum, it would seem. But there we are, that is the answer. Rangers have the opportunity redeem that rather puerile performance against Ajax last week against a rampantly in-form Napoli."
