I make no comment, I simply report;
Rangers Football Club is withdrawing all co-operation with the BBC as of today. The decision has been taken due to the repeated difficulties the Club has encountered with the BBC this season.
The Club was forced earlier in the season to suspend co-operation with the BBC over its serious misrepresentation of the Club manager’s position on violence and sectarianism. There have also been other instances where the BBC’s reporting on the club’s affairs has been neither accurate or fair.
Furthermore, over the last few weeks the BBC has been involved in making a documentary about the Club which appears to be little more than a prejudiced muckraking exercise. Efforts to ensure that reporting of the Club’s affairs should be balanced and fair appear to have been in vain.
The Club believes that the BBC has on a number of occasions now demonstrated a pre-determined negative attitude towards Rangers and its fans and its journalism has fallen well short of acceptable standards.
The decision to end co-operation with the BBC has been taken very reluctantly but the Club feels it has been left with no other option.
And in case anyone is wondering, I am NOT a Rangers fan!
Not surprising that the BBC try and blacken Rangers name,the fans are after all pro-British and very patriotic towards the monarchy.
Good on Rangers. And besides the BBC is so anti-Catholic that they make Rangers look like a Pope Benny Fan Club.
Good for them. That has made my day. An act of principle in an age of moral cowardice.
I hope this is the first of many similar acts by others who are also on the receiving end of the BBC’s bigotry and prejudice.
Yep, nice one Rangers, but it’s a sad sign of the time when there’s more courage and leadership from folks in the world of bungs and Baby Bentleys than from the whole of the Tory Party.
Hmmm. Choose between the BBC and the Blue Noses. Now that’s a tricky one!
As a good Catholic of old, I would have never had sympathy for Rangers.
That said, I grew up to know that they`re all right…and their wise action taken here is to be applauded.
Alex Ferguson should have continued to embarrass the BBC by not speaking to them…we all know what the BBCs agenda would be in the case of Rangers.
Rangers have another fan now, at least!
The reason is simple Rangers fans hold Israeli flags at matches – to the BBC that’s like a red rag to a bull. Come on you Rangers!
Rangers reduce their selection of (world ) class players on religious grounds , the BBC disaproves .
Meanwhile the Black Police officers association continues , the BBC approves .
The Muslim [insert association] continues, the BBC approves .
Cant the BBC issue guidelines for its viewers which bigotries and prejudices are approved and which are not ?
This is another area where the BBC ties itself in knots:
It is very anti-Catholic (constantly implying that ALL priests are paeodophiles) unless they are Irish Nationalist Catholics like Celtic fans. As Rangers oppose Celtic and their fans have made many anti-IRA chants in the past, this makes them third only to Israel and Margaret Thathcher as their objects of hate.
As Mark and Advis3r have already pointed out, Rangers are traditionally very pro-Union and wave Union flags at old-firm matches, as well as Israeli flags to oppose the Celtic fans waving Palestinian ones. All these crimes make them beneath contempt for the BBC and well worthy of a campaign to smear everything they do.
And before anyone thinks I am a Rangers fan, I’m certainly not! The Celtic fans are as bigoted as them, but you won’t find the BBC besmirching them in the same way.
Ok, so normally the BBC is anti-Christian, and hates the pope for showing more religious bottle than the Archbishop of Canterbury.
But when it comes to the BBC’s role as the IRA’s propagandist in chief, the corporation has to take a pro-catholic and anti-protestant line because the IRA is a largely catholic organisation. Stoking the flames of sectarian hatred by attacking protestant Rangers is part and parcel of this mission.
Above all the BBC is a marxist, atheistic organisation which wants to see this country and its traditions smashed to pieces. This accounts for both of the above (seemingly paradoxical) attitudes toward religion.
And it also accounts for its championing of an alien culture founded by, as they say at the BBC, “the prophet” Mohammed. (They never say “the lord” Jesus Christ, because as far as our traditions are concerned, he’s just too British.)
Of course there may just come a day when the corporation’s atheism lands it in trouble with the moslems. Indeed, heads could roll! 🙂
Well done Rangers, best wishes to them and Ally Mcoist.
The BBC habitually give us the very opposite of unbiased reporting. They always pick a side to support – and you can invariably guess with some certainty which side it will be.
I agree with others here that the Beeboids are no supporters of Catholicism – they can’t seem to even mention that church without adding some derogatory reference.
But I do suspect that if a BBC correspondent was wandering along a quiet country road somewhere within these isles and happened on a priest and a vicar fighting by the roadside, kicking and punching one another for akll they were worth, then knowing nothing more the Beeboid would make a quick mental calculation, and report the incident as ‘Catholic assualted by Protestant’.
Well I guess that is Celtic and Rangers and that is how the BBC are going to report it.
And could you imagine a BBC correspondent brave enough to even break up a fight, let alone amongst the clergy ?
If the Beeboid saw a fight between a Catholic Priest and a C of E Vicar, he would probably blame the Rabbi.
The BBC have been attacking Rangers and their fans for over a decade now. They even had staff member writing sectarian comments on the national website about Rangers players.
The final straw was the editing of the Gers manager to make him look as if he was smirking and mocking a debate on bigotry, followed by a scandalous report on the Gers chairman.
This time, the BBC have bitten off more than they can chew.