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1 hour ago, Smile said:

See the scum have banned sky sports from their press conferences even though they know Morelos was racially abused.

 

 

celtic are refusing to co-operate with Sky Sports as the Scottish champions pursue a full explanation for a mistranslated interview with the Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos.

In a major embarrassment for Sky, subtitles attached to Morelos, who spoke in Spanish, wrongly accused celtic supporters of racially abusing the Colombian at the Old Firm match on 29 December.

Sky’s reporters were not welcome at celtic’s pre-match press conference for Wednesday’s game at home to Hearts, as had been the case before last Sunday’s Scottish Cup tie against Clyde. Such a move is not typical of celtic and illustrates the scale of their feeling. The broadcaster faces a race to resolve the matter before its live screening of Aberdeen v celtic on Sunday.

After celtic’s initial complaint, Sky admitted “inaccuracies” in the interview and removed it from all platforms before making a corrected version available. It said in a statement: “After numerous steps undertaken by Sky to verify the interview thoroughly we can be clear that at no point did Morelos allege that any racial abuse was directed at him by celtic supporters in the interview. We apologise to the supporters of celtic football club for this serious error. We are reviewing our procedures for translated interviews to ensure this does not occur in future.”

There was, though, no detail offered publicly or privately as to how this situation arose. celtic remain angry with what they regard as the unsatisfactory nature of Sky’s response and have reported the situation to Ofcom.

This fall-out is all the more notable because Sky will begin an exclusive, five-year deal to screen live Scottish Premiership matches next season. Sky did not comment on this on Monday when approached by the Guardian. It has also been approached on Tuesday in relation to its lack of access to celtic’s media briefings.

Ofcom is looking through complaints from celtic supporters as well as from the club. An Ofcom spokesperson said: “We are assessing these complaints against our broadcasting rules, but have yet to decide whether or not to investigate.” This analysis typically takes around two weeks, with any formal investigation then usually completed within 50 working days.

celtic have specifically demanded to know who was responsible for the translation. “The use of mistranslation to convey false meaning is a dangerous form of fake news which must be condemned and sanctioned,” said the club’s chief executive, Peter Lawwell.

Rangers are yet to say anything specifically about the misrepresentation of their player by Sky. Morelos’s representatives, World in Motion, did not comment when approached by the Guardian. The club did, though, issue a lengthy statement on Monday evening after it emerged that a 12-year-old had been charged in relation to a racist chant directed towards Morelos at celtic Park. Rangers took aim at what they perceive as unfair treatment of their leading striker by the Scottish media.

“Rangers had a duty of care not to say anything that might compromise a live Police Scotland investigation,” the statement said. “What none of us should ever do, however, is dismiss, or trivialise abusive behaviour as too many media outlets, journalists, and pundits have done in this instance.”

It added: “When a player is at the centre of an abuse claim he is treated with respect and sensitivity and given support. That is certainly the case in England, but not here and most certainly not with Alfredo Morelos, who is actually being demonised in many quarters of the media.”

These cunts are getting to big for their boots, their getting well above their station now.

Any one of these big institutions could just turn round and say fuck them enough's enough, but you no the old saying give them enough rope...

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2 hours ago, Sweettartangirl said:

No worries..it used to work...one time.  

@gogzy @Creampuff @dummiesoot @fog @DBBTB @MisterC @ben51 and anyone else who considers themself admin/moderators on here.

Hopefully the bickering within our own has calmed down now anyway. Good grief. 

 

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5 minutes ago, KingKirk said:

Part of me thinks this is a ploy given sky now have exclusive spfl rights going into next season.

Basically the scum are trying to show there muscle to get sky to fall in line with towing the celtic propaganda or ur out

Interesting point.

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2 hours ago, eejay the dj said:

I hate to see good bears barking at one another . Even if there's a difference of opinion 

Ok their are cunts on RM that shouldn't be called bears . Plenty of huffy ones too . Yet most on this thread are good passionate bears .  

Attacking other bears , just cause they don't like them is just stupid for me .

I often get roped in to that shit too . Yet i try not to hold grudges with guys that keep it about football .

Rangers No 1, Sket  and Indigo are good bears . Absolute certainty . As is BA . 

Yet we argue , we disagree , we may even call each other names . Yet at the end of the day . We all support the same team 

Count to 10 and remember that before you take it too far 

 Absolutely mate, differences of opinions should remain exactly that,  but it does cross the line, when someone who's MO is consistently calling fellow posters a mong at the drop of a hat and derails a thread is simply not a good person. Bear or no bear.

Someone who consistently posts lies and inuendo on another poster's personal life of whom he neither knows or knows of, and indeed trying to ridicule cancer sufferers is simply cowardly scum. None of us are saints, but please correct me if I'm wrong in the direction of one's moral compass. 

Much like the team, consistency and a level pllaying field is all that one can ask.

 

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3 minutes ago, Sweetheart said:

Their type of PR is deflection propaganda and down right lies. It will be their downfall one day.

It probably will, but it is working far too well at the moment unfortunately.

I do not want us to copy the worst parts of what they do S, but we are as bad being weak as they are over the top being strong. :thumbup:

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Just now, Sweettartangirl said:

Hope Sky tell them to ram it. 

I doubt it even tho sky have a contract so if they really wanted to enforce it no much the scum could do.

Any game sky cover a player and staff member must be made available for interview. 

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2 hours ago, BlueMe said:

Rangers release an official statement over concerns about the prejudicial treatment of Morelos from various media outlets and also the racism he received at celtic park on the 29th of December in which a celtic fan has been charged, following a police investigation.

24 hours later and almost a complete media blackout regarding the clubs official statement - that alone, tells you all you need to know about the media in this country and their feelings about the club tbh. 

Morelos being a waster, cheat, idiot and a liar, manages to make the front pages on a daily basis, but tell the truth about celtic fans being racists or highlight the concentrated campaign in the media that's main objective seems to be damaging the Rangers brand and discrediting our main assets and it's  complete silence.

Disgraceful tbh.

Post of the day right here 👍

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46 minutes ago, Vision said:

These cunts are getting to big for their boots, their getting well above their station now.

Any one of these big institutions could just turn round and say fuck them enough's enough, but you no the old saying give them enough rope...

They think there is something in this for them. It cant simply be a smokescreen to deflect from the fact that at least one of their fans racially abused one of our players.

It cant be against Morelos because he was actually racially abused.

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Being honest when that boy got banned from Ibrox after the scott Brown sister thing. We all said at the time that was extremely harsh how we'd dealt with that.

However where our club deserve credit is in the swiftness in dealing with situations.. No hiding deflecting or any other underhand pish.

It's pathetic watching that mob try and blame others whilst conveniently making a arse of dealing with the issue

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