Rangers firebrand El-Hadji Diouf believes he gets harshly treated wherever he goes and wants people to drop the bad ideas they have about him.

The former Senegal international is on loan with 'Gers from Blackburn Rovers and has received similar, if not worse, treatment in Scotland than he has in England for the better part of the last decade.

But Diouf insists he is no murderer and has urged outsiders to try and understand that they have got him all wrong.

"I've done a lot of things in my life, some things I regret, but I'm more of an adult now," Diouf told the Scottish Sun.

"I don't say I am a new guy but I used to be young and we all do things we would not do again.

"The biggest misperception of me is that I am some sort of bad boy.

"I've never killed anyone. I've never been to prison.

"You can't judge a person because he has a big car or how he dresses.

"You judge the person you know, and if you don't know that person, don't judge them.

"People think they can judge me because I am a footballer.

"If I wasn't a footballer, I'd just be some normal guy at the restaurant or working away at a railway station - and nobody would talk about me.

"I have a big character but that doesn't make me a bad man."