Leading Rangers fan media and club insider Heart & Hand have clarified the nature of the ongoing dispute with Radio Clyde.
The popular Ibrox podcasting team revealed earlier in the week that the Ibrox club have withdrawn co-operation with Clyde for the match with Hamilton over the comments of one of their pundits.
The show’s host David Edgar named journalist Roger Hannah as the offending party with the situation believed to concern comments Hannah made regarding Kemar Roofe.
“You may have noticed the club didn’t speak to Radio Clyde yesterday,” said Heart & Hand host Edgar [H&H Daily Update 08/02/21].
“There was no interview with the gaffer. That was due to something Roger Hannah said on Saturday night (06/02/21) that Rangers were not happy with.”
Hannah – who has defended himself on Twitter – claimed that a Murray Davidson injury from the match was influenced by an earlier challenge by Roofe.
The Ibrox striker is currently awaiting the outcome of an appeal after he was retrospectively charged for the incident.
“They’re without Murray Davidson this afternoon,” said Hannah [Clyde SSB 06/02/21], ahead of St. Johnstone’s eventual 2-1 win over Livingston on the same day.
“He injured one calf muscle whilst trying to protect the other calf muscle after the Kemar Roofe challenge in midweek.”
Hannah said this despite images showing Davidson receiving treatment on the opposite leg before leaving the park in the first half of the eventual Rangers 1-0 victory last week.
But whilst Heart & Hand are clear that Rangers are peeved with the broadcaster, host Edgar has made it clear that the club haven’t “cut all ties” with the station as some fans have reported on Twitter.
“Rangers haven’t ‘cut all ties’ with Clyde,” tweets the Heart & Hand account.
“They had an issue with something said on Saturday and didn’t speak to Clyde Sunday and won’t till it’s resolved.”
Heart & Hand’s Daily Update is available to the show’s Patreon subscribers – read more about that HERE.
Rangers have taken a defiant approach with vexatious reporting in the media this season with the club trying to quash a culture of unfair reportage in Scotland.
The club are also looking into a headline produced by the Scottish Sun which included an offensive and inappropriate term.
