Boozed-up Rangers fans started fight

THREE drunken Rangers fans dressed as superheroes started a fight with rival football fans on a train, Livingston Sheriff Court heard yesterday.

Two of the yobs hurled sectarian abuse at other passengers and the third threw a Buckfast bottle at a man wearing a Hibs jersey, breaking his nose and fracturing his eye socket.

Darren Kelly, Michael McGookin and Gary Miller, from Fallin in Stirlingshire, were dressed as Spider-Man, Batman and "Pimpman" during the incident on the Edinburgh Waverley to Dunblane train on Hallowe'en 2009.

Kelly, 27, admitted culpably and recklessly throwing the bottle that injured Stephen Millar. McGookin, 25, and Miller, 25, both admitted committing a breach of the peace.

Sheriff Graeme Fleming sentenced all three to perform unpaid community work, while McGookin and Miller were also put on probation.