The Scottish press walked out of Pedro Caixinha’s pre-match conference for Saturday’s match against Hibs.
According to Keith Jackson of the Daily Record, who is believed to be banned from Ibrox and Murray Park, the incredible reaction took place after the Ibrox club started filming the media.
Between the lines it seems that a warning has been fired that anyone asking out of bounds questions is likely to find the footage appearing on the Sevco website.
Jackson explains: “There have been some other highly curious goings on concerning the media at Murray Park, where Rangers have started training their own cameras on the press men who are despatched there to ask questions of manager Pedro Caixinha on behalf of their respective readerships.
“There is a sinister sub text to all of this. Ask anything too difficult and the club reserves the right to put it up online in order that the support can act as judge and jury.
“Again, this sort of intimidatory tactic will be right up Jong-un’s street but it does not reflect well at all on those who are making decisions on Rangers behalf.
“It resulted in a mass walk out of football writers from Caixinha’s pre-match briefing ahead of Saturday’s visit from Hibs and it will most likely happen all over again when the media are ‘welcomed’ back to preview this weekend’s lip smacker of a match up with Hearts.”
Former Daily Record and Radio Scotland man James Traynor is the man behind media policy at Ibrox and has been involved in a number of smallish incidents over the last couple of years.
BBC Scotland have refused media access since Chris McLaughlin was excluded due to reporting arrests for sectarian singing at a Hibs v Sevco match.
The reason for Jackson’s ban is harder to determine. After earning the praise of Paul Murray following Dave King’s March 2015 Revolution a couple of mildly critical articles about the South African based criminal seems to have resulted in him falling from favour with certain Ibrox factions.
