From the Evening Times:
Murray call centre programme banned
BBC SCOTLAND has been banned by a court from showing an episode of Frontline Scotland about a call centre owned by Rangers boss David Murray.
Lawyers for Response Handling went to the Court of Session to block last night's episode of the current affairs series which allegedly contained secret footage filmed inside the firm.
The BBC initially won the legal fight but RHL launched an immediate appeal, forcing the show to be pulled.
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The episode, called the Billion Pound Bank Robbery, investigates the use of personal data in call centres.
It's thought the investigation was carried out by a BBC reporter who went undercover as a customer service adviser in the firm's Edinburgh office.
The programme will not be broadcast until at least April 27 when the outcome of the appeal is known.
A spokesman for the BBC insisted the episode would be screened later.
Response Handling employs around 2700 staff at its Glasgow bases at Cowcaddens, Cadogan Square in the city centre and Ibrox.
The firm, founded in 1991, has the AA, Sky, Scottish Power, Budget Insurance, Digital UK and the Student Loans Company among its customers.
It's the largest contact centre firm in Scotland and the fifth biggest in the UK.
The more attentive among you will remember that this is the company that Murray announced new expansion plans and massive new recruitment just days after he announced the signing of the JJB deal, thus deflecting attention away from the impending loss of 121 employees of the Rangers Shops.
I wonder if any of the Rangers Shop employees got gainful employment in the call centres? I assume so since the ensuing tribunals never seemed to get too many column inches!
You couldn't make it up!
Whilst we are unscrupulously gleaming all our information for today's news from the Evening Times we found this letter on Rangers Cyberspace to one of the Times' hacks.
This plucky young 'Rangers fan' has decided to take the Times to task on an article regarding Rangers' reluctance to sign players from a certain religion or ethnic background:
"It probably won't make any difference, but I've sent this any way and I'll post any reply I receive.
To. Mathew Lindsay
Evening Times
Glasgow
Dear Mathew,
I was interested to read your recent article re. Maurice Johnson's new Managerial role in Toronto. In your article you state Johnson was the first Catholic to sign for Rangers in 1989, thereby fuelling the widely believed myth that Rangers Football Club had previously implemented a sectarian signing policy. This myth couldn't be further from the truth, and if you had taken the time to research your article slightly better, you would have discovered that a large number of Catholic players had previously worn the blue of Rangers. In fact only 5 years prior to Johnson's signing, John Spencer was another Glaswegian Catholic who starred for Rangers. Hugh O'Neill appeared in the 70s, and a further 2 Catholic players played at Ibrox on many occasions during the 1950s. So that's at least 4 Catholics who played for Rangers after World War II before he signing of Johnson. Hardly evidence of a sectarian signing policy is it ?
You will no doubt be surprised to know that I have details of at least another 8 Catholics who played for Rangers at the turn of the century, and in 1886 Pat Lafferty signed for the Gers before Celtic FC had even been founded.
So with very little research I have identified at least 14 Catholics who appeared for Rangers before the signing of Johnson.
I trust that in future you won't make the mistake of referring to Maurice Johnson as the first Catholic to sign for Rangers, and perhaps you might even be tempted to start dispelling the sectarian signing policy associated with Rangers. It is, and always has been, an all inclusive Club.
Yours in football"
Opinion has it that this was not written by a Rangers fan at all, but was indeed a clever ruse by a 'Timposter'. Lets face it, no Rangers fan would be so stupid as to highlight the 135 years of unsurpassed bigotry down Govan way would he?
I mean, apart from the fact that the Orcs elect to rigourously research what religion their players are, past and present, they deem it logical to tell the world that the amount barely stretches to one per decade of their twisted existence! Ha Ha
Whatever next? Will they be daft enough to film themselves signing their Sectarian ditties? Or maybe one of them will try to get a Polish goalkeeper into trouble by filming his pre-half ritual only to expose those around him for the backwards Neanderthals that they are!
I just wish someone would invent something that would allow the world to see their litany of hate at the touch of a button.
What's that you say? What's "Youtube"?
Is that a reference to Mr Letter writer or the morons with mobile phones?
Once again, you really couldn't make it up.
Which is just as well given you don't have too!
Have a great weekend Timdom!
Yours in Celtic
Clydebuilt