Rangers tell Graham Spiers & Chris McLaughlin they are "no longer welcome at Ibrox"

[chilledbear 16]

@ChrisGraham76: I'm told @GrahamSpiers has had press privileges for Ibrox removed with immediate effect. Years of lies about fans and club catch up to him.

[Bearman 9]

...and about time too.

[colinstein 294]

Hope they make it quite clear (including his latest quotes) why this has happened.

[der Berliner 3,803]

... and one hopes another few will follow suit!

[26th of foot 6,114]

I do not agree with banning Journos, I believe in taking them on.

 

The initial emotion is legitimate, 'good and about time'. However, he will become a martyr and a cause celebre.

 

Infuriating too in a way. Spiers is reduced to a weekly column in the Herald and a half hour golf spot on BBC Radio Scotland. Suddenly, he is high profile again.

 

I hope the club spells on the reasoning for the ban, and I hope they have got their ducks in a row?

[RANGERRAB 3,732]

Spiers should have been banned sine die from Rangers long ago along with several other pseudo- journos belonging to the Rangers-hating pondlife in the mhedia. If this true then it's long overdue.

[RANGERRAB 3,732]

I do not agree with banning Journos, I believe in taking them on.

 

The initial emotion is legitimate, 'good and about time'. However, he will become a martyr and a cause celebre.

 

Infuriating too in a way. Spiers is reduced to a weekly column in the Herald and a half hour golf spot on BBC Radio Scotland. Suddenly, he is high profile again.

 

I hope the club spells on the reasoning for the ban, and I hope they have got their ducks in a row?

 

A martyr for whom? The rest of of the mhedia pondlife?

[RANGERRAB 3,732]

Welcome though this is I still await action from Rangers regards McLaughlin last weekend.

[der Berliner 3,803]

I do not agree with banning Journos, I believe in taking them on.

 

The initial emotion is legitimate, 'good and about time'. However, he will become a martyr and a cause celebre.

 

Infuriating too in a way. Spiers is reduced to a weekly column in the Herald and a half hour golf spot on BBC Radio Scotland. Suddenly, he is high profile again.

 

I hope the club spells on the reasoning for the ban, and I hope they have got their ducks in a row?

 

I don't think that the marytr stuff will hold. At the end of the day, someone pays for his work and if he can't deliver that work, especially direct and first hand information, his employers will have to send someone in his stead. Over the course of time, he will become peripheral and/or forgotten.

 

The only people who will lap him up are those of his inclination or ilk, and if they are dealt with in a similar mammer, they too will be gone over time. It is not that Rangers want anything special. Rangers want impartial journos writing impartial stories. Primarily, Rangers also want journos in the first place, not folk like Spiers and Co., who are anything but journos.

Edited July 31, 2015 by der Berliner

[RANGERRAB 3,732]

Spiers purports to be anti-sectarian and all the rest but is a Rangers-hating bigot himself.There are many others like him in the mhedia and I hope the club deals with them all in a similar manner