A RANGERS fan has been jailed over a drunken rammy with a taxi driver after trying to change the radio station to hear football scores.

Stephen Stalley, of Beechwood Drive, Renfrew, got a cab to pick him up at a bookies on the day his beloved club faced rivals Celtic.

And, once inside Shelimur Rahman’s taxi, 30-year-old Stalley lost the plot.

He threatened the driver with violence and warned he would damage his car.

The details emerged this week when Stalley appeared in the dock at Paisley Sheriff Court to go on trial over the events of March 11, 2018.

He struck a deal with prosecutors which saw him pleading guilty to one charge in exchange for another being dropped.

Stalley admitted behaving in a threatening or abusive way while on bail over two other Paisley Sheriff Court cases.

His not guilty plea was accepted to a charge that he had got a taxi from a Paddy Power bookmakers shop in Glasgow city centre to Glasgow Road, Renfrew, without paying, and not intending to pay, the £12 fare.

The court was told that, once inside the cab, Stalley began to touch the radio controls and Mr Rahman believed it was so he could find out the football results.

Earlier that day, Celtic had beaten Rangers 3-2 at Ibrox.

Stalley continued to touch the controls throughout the journey, turning the volume up, and ignored Mr Rahman’s repeated requests to stop.

When the cabbie tried to call the police, Stalley bawled at him to stop the car.

He did so and Stalley walked away without paying.

Police investigating the incident were given the mobile number used by Stalley to book the taxi.

It emerged that, later that night, he had phoned the taxi office to threaten the driver, saying: “I’m hunting him down. I’m going to put a brick through his windae.”

Defence solicitor Amy Spencer said Stalley had problems with alcohol and his mental health at the time.

Sheriff Hugh McGinty caged him for three months, reduced from four months as he admitted his guilt.

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