BBC Scotland back fully on-message after grovelling Ibrox apology

Seven years after a fall-out over reporting supporters being ejected from Easter Road for singing ‘sectarian songs’ BBC Scotland has backed down, apologised and restored full relations with the Ibrox Tribute Act. 

The Mark Warburton Revolution was just getting underway when Chris McLaughlin reported on the incidents during a League Cup tie. 

McLaughlin was informed that he wouldn’t be given media facilities, BBC Scotland refused to be dictated to by one club and a farcical stand off began. 

With radio commentaries from a studio watching ‘Rangers TV’ to sharing quotes from other broadcasters and publishers BBC Scotland went out of their way to provide favourable Ibrox coverage through the horrors of Pedro Caixinha, Graeme Murty and Warbo as Celtic won 12 successive domestic trophies. 

One particular lowpoint for the state broadcaster came in June 2020 when DUP MP Gregory Campbell joined Richard Gordon and Tom English on Radio Scotland’s Sportsound show to bleat about the terrible treatment that the tribute act received from the football authorities. 

Now licence payers can look forward to full on coverage led by Kenny Macintyre, Tom English, Jane Lewis and Steven Thompson backed up by expert analysis from Kenny Miller, Richard Foster, Mark Hately, Neil McCann and Charlie Adam. Michael Stewart’s appearances are likely to become less frequent with Bobby Madden becoming a regular special guest. 

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