OF COURSE, HE'D MISTAKEN THEM FOR MEMBERS OF THE SAUDI SOCCER TEAM (via Lou Gots):

HERO CABBIE: POLICE TOOK MY GOOD NIKE TRAINERS (John Ferguson, 7/04/07, Daily Record)

BATTLING taxi driver Alex McIlveen faced down the Glasgow Airport terror suspects ... and his courage cost him his favourite pair of trainers and a £30 parking fine.

Dad-of-two Alex punched and kicked the two men after they crashed a Jeep Cherokee loaded with gas canisters into the door of Terminal One.

The 45-year-old booted one of the suspects, whose body was covered in flames, as hard as he could between the legs.

But the man didn't appear to feel the blow, and a police doctor told Alex later that he'd damaged a tendon in his foot.

After the drama, police confiscated Alex's trainers for forensic tests.

And when he went back to the airport to pick up his cab, he was stunned to find that he'd been given a parking ticket.