The Daily Record has apologised unreservedly to Sevco over coverage of the Scottish Cup Final aftermath.
Sevco fans invaded the pitch at Hampden and sang anti-catholic songs after watching their team lose 3-2 to Hibs to complete a miserable afternoon for Mark Warburton’s side.
Mounted police were called in to restore order with fans from both clubs arrested in the weeks following the match but no action has yet been taken by the SFA for the match that took place four months ago.
A section of the Ibrox support took exception to one report in the Daily Record with the club issuing a statement this morning carrying the apology from the Record.
The statement read: “AFTER having challenged the Daily Record over the veracity of their story ‘Cops: Mob Rule Outside Hampden Blocked Us From Getting In to Help’ (published on May 26, 2016) Rangers have received an apology from the newspaper’s editor.
“The Daily Record was hauled over the coals by the newspaper industry watchdog, the Independent Press Standards Organisation (IPSO,) who were scathing in their criticisms of the methods used by the paper.
“IPSO ruled the Daily Record failed to corroborate the information they claim they were given via an anonymous email and also found them to be guilty of presenting a ‘significantly misleading impression.’ The Daily Record also failed to ‘demonstrate the accuracy of the serious allegations set out in the article.’
“IPSO also stated: ‘In circumstances where Rangers supporters were accused of violence towards police, and other anti-social behaviour, the attempts it had made to support the account of an unidentified source it had been unable to verify were not sufficient to demonstrate that care had been taken over the accuracy of the article.’
“Rangers and Club 1872 challenged the paper and in a letter to Rangers Managing Director Stewart Robertson, the editor of the Daily Record admitted the report printed in the edition of May 26 surrounding events in the aftermath of the Scottish Cup final ‘should not have been published.’
“The editor also wrote: ‘In this instance the paper failed to maintain the requisite standards. It was a collective failing for which I apologise unreservedly.’”
The club from Ibrox have still to comment on the anti-catholic singing from their supporters at Celtic Park on September 20 or the damage caused at the same fixture.