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Well, I just had a look at the ticket site and whatever type of ticket I search for the site says that they can't find any. So the match seems to be sold out. As it should be since the stadium only holds around 21 000 at european games. So the ban does mean that Malmo has a chance to fill the stadium with their own supporters and that Rangers will be without their usual strong support. It's definitely a punishment for Rangers in that sense.

No offense, but in many ways Glasgow Rangers is the perfect club to play for a Swedish team. There is no doubt about the great history that Rangers have. One of the most famous clubs in the World. That will get the swedish players extra pumped up. Malmo has a very young team, and for those young lads to walk in to a legendary ground like Ibrox must have been fantastic, and probably really helped them being even more motivated fpr the match. On the other hand, I really don't think Malmo or any other Swedish team really fear the group of players that Rangers have at the moment. To be honest, for most of the Malmo players the Rangers players are as probably as unknown to them as the Malmo players are to the Rangers players. I'm pretty sure that Rangers would win the Swedish league quite comfortably, but the difference in quality to the top teams in Sweden is probably not as big as some Rangers supporters seem to think. That Rangers would roll over Malmo with something like 7-0 over two legs was never really in the cards. Sorry... I live in Malmo but I support the club Orebro where Alejandro Bedoya plays. He's definitely a good player, but it seems unthinkable that an Orebro player of that calibre would have been bought by Rangers 15-20 years ago... I think Rangers have a great chance tonight if they capitalize on the weak defence of Malmo. Malmos strength is in their offense which is probably the best in Sweden, even if this season has been really inconsistent. I wonder if the Rangers staff really understood that Malmo is a team that mainly play short quick passes and have quite technical and skillful players up front, but often lack organization defensively. Looking at the match on Ibrox I wonder if they really had done their homework...Well at least now they know, and should be better prepared for tonight. If it's enough to go through is very unclear though. Anyway, sorry about the ramblings and good luck tonight! And I hope Alejandr Bedoya will do a great job for you eventually! He will be missed in my dear Orebro...

Of course they're not doing a language test! It was a joke by the Malmö FF club representative. Maybe not so smart to joke about something like that though...A lot of people who live in Malmö and Sweden speak other languages than Swedish. To not let anyone in just because they don't speak Swedish would be discriminatory and of course totally out of the question. This article (in swedish) does say though that they will not let anyone in who are wearing Rangers shirts, scarves or anything else related to Rangers. And they will not let anyone in singing Rangers songs etc. This is coming from Malmös communications manager. He also says that they are not to worried about this but at the same time it's kind of clear that they are not 100 % sure how to make the judging. He's saying that this is a totally new situation for Malmö FF. I assume that this means that as long as you are not visibly a Rangers supporter, and as long as you are not chanting or singing about Rangers, there shouldn't be a huge problem getting in. http://www.eurosport.se/fotboll/allsvenskan/2011/rangers-fans-forbjudna_sto2894240/story.shtml

I'm not a Malmö supporter! I just had a look in this forum and saw that the person who started this thread seemed to ask a genuine question about what happened at the match. I was standing on the away section and saw a lot of what happened. Anyway, good luck on wednesday!

I'm not a Malmö supporter, but to be fair the majority of the stadium cannot be seen in the footage above. It was nowhere near a packed stadium though. Probaly somewhere around 10 000 - 13 000 people. It will of course be sold out on wednesday but that still only means 20 000 people since there are no standing supporters allowed. It's not a big stadium by european standards.

I was at the match in Malmö yesterday and have some more information. This incident will of course be investigated, but the bangers were thrown from the section of the away supporters from Djurgården. A Malmö supporter actually went over to that side to cause trouble, and was quickly attacked by Djurgården supporters. Of course, that Malmö supporter might have been the one who threw the bangers but it seems very unlikey that he would have been able to do that from the Djurgården section. There were around 2000 away supporters at the game, and some of those are definitely capable of doing something like this. Djurgården, one of the three big clubs frpm Stockholm, is traditionally a team which have much more supporters that cause trouble than Malmö have. Malmö does have a big group of pretty loud supporters but not really a big group of people who are readly to be violent. Djurgården has that. This was though the second match this season in Malmö that had to be abandonded because of trouble. The last time it was a Malmö supporter who ran on to the pitch and attacked the Helsingborg keeper. Overall the Swedish league right now has a big, big problem hooliganism and troubles of different kinds around football. Its pretty sad...