Graham Spiers. Self confessed *Rangers fan and media man.
Quite the combination. Especially when he interviewed Alex Thomson on his Press Box podcast to relive the days where the Channel 4 journalist investigated the dead club for their financial doping of the Scottish game prior to their liquidation back in 2012.
The podcast is a great listen and really opens up your eyes to the failings then, and the continued failings now, of Scotland’s media as they failed to report on the goings on of the Ibrox mob tax avoidance, use of EBT’s and basically shafting the Scottish game for nigh on ten years.
Graham Spiers was reliving that time and spoke of the circumstances of his Ibrox ban in a damning indictment of Managing Director Stewart Robertson, “I remember when when Stewart Robertson, the Rangers Managing Director, who is essentially a really nice guy, I think rather a weak, but essentially a nice guy.
“But the fans had been badgering him to ban me.
“You know, they wanted my head on a plate and in some embarrassment, he caved in and he said to me, “Graham, I’m really uncomfortable with this, but I’m going to do it. I’m going to ban you.” And I said to him, “Stewart, this is what the Soviets did 70 years ago, they banned writers of the world.”
“The world has moved on from this. Supposedly. There should be mass support for this preposterous notion of banning writers.
“But of course, there isn’t. Because the media now feels so insecure, and in fact, it’s so selfish.
“Papers want to get their own story and to hell with other papers. That’s kind of the prevailing view.”
This just gives a huge insight into their current board, just like the dead clubs, pander to the Ibrox hordes whenever a journalist tweets or says something they don’t like.
They certainly don’t like Spiers as now he calls out the same club myth that other journalists dare not to.
