ian1964 10,721 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 RANGERS have lodged a formal complaint with the BBC over the opening sequence to their coverage of Wednesday nightâ??s Scottish Communities League Cup tie against Motherwell. â?¢ Rangers lodge official complaint to BBC over â??Mad Menâ?? opening sequence which depicted Ally McCoist falling to ground â?¢ Club statement also slams Off the Ballâ??s â??Super Ally or Fat Sallyâ?? sketch The Sportscene programme began with an animated montage, based on American television show Mad Menâ??s own opening credits, which the Ibrox club has branded â??tastelessâ?. The BBC responded by saying there was no intention to cause offence, after Rangers claimed to be â??inundatedâ? with complaints from angry supporters. The club is also unhappy with a discussion centred on manager Ally McCoist which took place on the BBC Radio Scotland show Off The Ball on Saturday. A statement on the clubâ??s website read: â??Rangers Football Club has lodged a formal complaint with the BBC following what it regards as a tasteless opening title sequence for last nightâ??s live League Cup TV coverage. The Light Blues have today been inundated with emails and phone calls from supporters who are â?? rightly, in our opinion â?? furious with the way the programme began. It started with an animated montage which depicted a Rangers official, clearly manager Ally McCoist, falling from an office window at Ibrox and smashing a club crest. â??The incident follows a discussion which took place on BBC Radio Scotland show Off The Ball on Saturday entitled â??Super Ally or Fat Sallyâ?, which questioned whether fans still backed McCoist. â??While the manager is known for his good sense of humour, he is both angry and disgusted by the BBCâ??s treatment both of him personally and of the club. As such, Rangers have made contact with the BBC this morning asking why they have chosen to act in such a manner and we await their response.â? A BBC Scotland spokesman said: â??Sportsceneâ??s opening sequence included an animation based around the title sequence of a well-known American TV drama. It was a creative attempt to set up the clash between Motherwell and Rangers. â??We accept that the creative animation â?? however well intentioned â?? may not have appealed to everyone but we would like to stress that there was no intention to cause any offence. â??We absolutely reject, however, any suggestions that we have an anti-Rangers bias.â? http://www.scotsman.com/sport/footba...ist-1-2550813? 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 The BBC will never, ever, admit to any bias in their reporting or failed attempts at 'creative' programming. Period. It doesn't even need proving because they prove it time and time again themselves. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ian1964 10,721 Posted September 27, 2012 Author Share Posted September 27, 2012 CG should just ban them from Ibrox 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 CG should just ban them from Ibrox I'd probably be cool with Charles Green doing that Ian, but it's also worth considering that Whyte tried to ban them and that basically just exasperated the situation (or seemed to anyway, but that might just have been the timing). It certainly didn't do us any good, although I have to admit that repeatedly standing up to them might have some long-term plus points that we can't see yet. Hard to say, but at least taking a stance like the club's doing again is standing up to them rather than lying down to them. At the end of the day, I don't think they can do much more damage to us than they've already done or tried to do..... 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
D'Artagnan 173 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Yes but the same organisation denied their reporter Andrew Gilligan had done anything untoward until the Hutton enquiry gone in about his mince. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
kuznetsov 0 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 denying the indeniable. bbc are anti-rangers no matter how much they deny it. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
pete 2,499 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 denying the indeniable. bbc are anti-rangers no matter how much they deny it. Coming from Ally's most supportive supporter.:tongue: 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
simplythebest 0 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 I'd probably be cool with Charles Green doing that Ian, but it's also worth considering that Whyte tried to ban them and that basically just exasperated the situation (or seemed to anyway, but that might just have been the timing). It certainly didn't do us any good, although I have to admit that repeatedly standing up to them might have some long-term plus points that we can't see yet. Hard to say, but at least taking a stance like the club's doing again is standing up to them rather than lying down to them. At the end of the day, I don't think they can do much more damage to us than they've already done or tried to do..... Much of the Craig Whyte ban was based on their investigations into him personally, this time round it could be perfectly clear what the reasoning is. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zappa 0 Posted September 27, 2012 Share Posted September 27, 2012 Yes but the same organisation denied their reporter Andrew Gilligan had done anything untoward until the Hutton enquiry gone in about his mince. Yes, but the likes of that and other investigations into the BBC always result in the same things: Complete denial by the BBC backed up with "perhaps we could have done this or that better" and general apathy accross the nation regarding their coverage of events and 'programming'. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
the gunslinger 3,366 Posted September 28, 2012 Share Posted September 28, 2012 depicting managers jumping out of windows may not be to everyones taste. who knew. 0 Quote Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Join the conversation
You can post now and register later. If you have an account, sign in now to post with your account.