Giovanni van Bronckhorst has branded the scenes that the Rangers team bus met ahead of their clash with PSV as 'the worst he has seen'.
The Light Blues are at The Philips Stadion ahead of their huge Champions League play-off clash with the Dutch giants. It's a make or break showdown with the winner reaching the lucrative group stage. The tie is finely poised at 2-2 ahead of the kick-off with a huge financial windfall also on the line for both clubs.
Van Bronckhorst was unhappy with the impact the delay had on preparations for the game and revealed a request to delay kick-off by a short period was booted out. On the scenes as the Rangers team bus arrived, he told BT Sport: "Well I mean, it's the worst I have seen as a player and manager.
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"You can expect from a club as big as PSV that the organisation would be right. We had to wait 15 minutes in front of the stadium and one bus just left. So we were 20 minutes delayed with the second bus. It's not the reception you expect.
On the impact of his preparations ahead of kick-off, he added: "Well it's shorter. We asked to delay kick-off a little bit but they didn't approve our request.
"We will be ready mentally to go into this game with fighting sprit."
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