Steven Defour: Last News

Daily Star Sport has delved into six cases in which players were targeted following bold career moves, with one banner showcasing a player having been decapitated.Back in January of 2016, a banner which had a drawing of a decapitated Steven Defour alongside the words 'Red or Dead' was displayed by Standard Liege fans on his return to the club.The then 26-year-old Belgium international had left Standard for Porto five years earlier, and returned to Belgium by signing for match-rivals Anderlecht to plenty of controversy.The banner might well have got to the midfielder, and he was sent off in the second-half for kicking the ball into the stands as the away side lost 2-0 in what was an extremely hostile atmosphere.Have you ever been annoyed at

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Rangers they’ll be locked out in Liege on Thursday night.The former Ibrox midfielder had a stint as assistant to Alex McLeish at KRC Genk in 2014.And Rae admits to have been unaware of just how fiercely passionate the fans of Standard Liege were until he turned up at the Stade Maurice Dufrasne on a scouting mission that coincided with the one of the most infamous days in their rivalry with Anderlecht.Standard’s ultras unveiled a banner depicting the decapitation of their former favourite Steven Defour, who had left for Porto but returned to sign for Anderlecht.The sight of it riled Defour to such an extent that in the second half he deliberately blasted the ball into the area of the ground where the banner had been unfurled and was sent off