Rangers’ Fan Advisory Board has taken to X to call out the Daily Record for their reporting on the Scottish Cup clash against Celtic in March.
Several arrests were made by the police as chaos emerged following the penalty shootout that saw Celtic through to the next round.
Rangers suffered six figures in damages as the game was discussed for weeks, with both sides pointing the finger at each other.
Earlier this week, both clubs were charged for the incidents that took place in March, with the Scottish Football Association issuing identical notices to the two sides after publishing the independent review.
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What did the Rangers Fan Advisory Board say?
In no uncertain terms, the Rangers Fan Advisory Board stated that the Daily Record had got the story surrounding the incidents at Ibrox completely wrong.
The statement was in response to a tweet, which has now been deleted, but the article still exists on the internet.
In their statement, the FAB stated that they had asked the club, and the club responded that no assault had taken place by a player on a security officer.
What actually happened was that somebody got caught in the middle of pulling players away after the match ended.
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There was nobody injured and the FAB reported all of this to the Daily Record on Thursday, but they still went ahead and ran a story on Friday.
The statement reads: “It probably won’t surprise you that the Record have got this one wrong.
“We asked the club and they have advised it wasn’t an assault, it was someone getting caught up pulling players apart after the game. No one injured, nothing reported to the police.
“This was all explained to the Record yesterday.”
What did the Daily Record’s now-deleted tweet mention?
The Daily Record published an article headlined “Old Firm player ‘assaulted security officer’ during Scottish Cup shame game” on 24 July, and the tweet included those words.
The article drew from a 37-page SFA-commissioned security report by UEFA’s Mark Blackbourne.
The paper referred to an incident from the report at 3:47 pm, which was after full-time, stating: “Deputy SO assaulted by a player.”
It was presented as an unnamed player, presumably from Rangers, assaulting a deputy security officer.
Police Scotland later said that they were unaware of this incident.
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