Two Rangers supporters have been jailed for a total of eight months and banned from attending any football match involving a senior British team for four years.

Auto parts trader Stephen Campbell was jailed for four months for carrying out a violent sectarian attack on Celtic supporters after a match.

He and ground worker Kevin Anderson, who was also jailed for four months, were made the subject of a wide ranging football banning order until February 2016.

The duo had clashed with rival Old Firm fans when two supporters' buses pulled into the Broxden service station near Perth at the same time.

A sheriff told Campbell and Anderson that it was hard for the people living in Perth and other places across Scotland to even understand the "Glasgow behaviour" they had been involved in.

Sheriff Michael Fletcher said: "I think it must be very clear to you now what the public think about behaviour like this spreading from Glasgow to a place like Perth.

"It is difficult for us to even understand what you were talking about, and there has been enough publicity about this issue across Scotland that you must know by now.

"The courts treat these offences very seriously. It is even more serious when it is in a public area like that. It has nothing to do with football and other people would be bemused by this."

European ban

He banned the duo from watching not only Rangers, but every senior football team in Scotland, England and Wales, along with those countries' international teams. The ban exists throughout Europe.

Perth Sheriff Court was told that 23-year-old Campbell shouted sectarian abuse and hurled a bottle at two Celtic fans in front of a supporters' bus with children on it.

Anderson, 33, admitted headbutting and injuring one victim as Celtic and Rangers supporters battled at the filling station in an incident.

Campbell, of Dryburn Avenue, Glasgow, admitted breaching the peace at Broxden Services, near Perth, on August 13 by swearing and shouting sectarian remarks.

He also admitted assaulting Alan Green and Alexander McKenzie by throwing a glass bottle at them as around a dozen rival fans squared up to each other.

Anderson, of Kempock Street, Gourock, admitted attacking and injuring Christopher MacDonald in the service station on the same date by headbutting him on the face and causing him to fall against a bin to his injury.

Fiscal depute John Malpass told the court that Celtic had been playing at home to Dundee United, while Rangers had been playing away at Inverness Caledonian Thistle in an early kick-off.

The arrests were made as part of a joint investigation by officers from Tayside Police and the recently-created Football Co-Ordination Unit.