GERS CORONA SWEAT

Bayer LeVerKuseN still plan to welcome rangers fans to Germany – despite further calls for their europa League clash to be played behind closed doors.

coronavirus plunged sport deeper into chaos yesterday as France banned fans from attending top-flight matches while football in Italy has been cancelled

FROM BACK PAGE cancelled until next month. That has led to fears that Rangers supporters face being locked out of the away tie against Leverkusen a week on Thursday.

But a spokesman for the German club last night claimed they still hope to play the match under normal conditions, although the situation could change quickly.

They said: “We count on that game being played regularly but that is under today’s status quo.

“Predictions are difficult. As soon as we get more information we’ll inform fans.”

Yesterday Record Sport told how German health minister Jens

Spahn called for any event scheduled to have more than 1000 spectators to be postponed or played behind closed doors.

And the health minister for North-Rhine Westphalia, Karl-Josef Laumann, said: “If it has been said we no longer want to allow events with more than 1000 people in North Rhine-Westphalia, it’s a recommendation from the state minister to the lower authorities. In truth it’s more like an order.”

The head of the World Medical Association, Frank Ulrich Montgomery, said: “You can’t have football games played with 35,000 spectators as if nothing had happened.”