Last night the BBC did a TV programme about Rangers. It was only shown on BBC Scotland, rather than nationally across the UK, perhaps on the basis that the BBC planner think that no on in the south is interested in Scotland.

And yet what is happening at Rangers is a warning to all of [...]

From a colleague north of the border...
"A troubling thought.
"I'm hearing mixed messages from people with good connections to the board. There is no question that there will be a massive number of Celtic die-hards who will not renew their season tickets if the board do anything other than oppose NewHuns in the SPL.

You can say what you like about Scottish media coverage of Rangers' financial crisis but you're certainly spoilt for choice. Unfortunately, that choice is all-too-often between parallel universes, with a tangential universe thrown in every time club owner Craig Whyte is within range of a microphone (Whyte's common criticism of HMRC as "living on a different planet to the rest of us" is top-of-the-range irony, I'm sure you'll agree.

This week, Alex Salmond held discussions with David Cameron about the terms of a referendum on independence, and Cameron launched his own pleas in defence of the Union. It's a story that has been dominating the headlines for weeks in Scotland not unreasonably but this week, Cameron was unlucky with his timing.

This week, Alex Salmond held discussions with David Cameron about the terms of a referendum on independence, and Cameron launched his own pleas in defence of the Union. It's a story that has been dominating the headlines for weeks in Scotland not unreasonably but this week, Cameron was unlucky with his timing.

A rather anaemic press release on Rangers' website seems to have set the Twitter world all a-flutter.
The club will join with STV to explore "commercial" opportunities.
Two businesses, each negotiating their own challenges in a changing world, form a vague union that they hope will end profitably for both.

It hadn't been Rangers' best week. On the Monday, they lost two directors down the back of the corporate governance sofa, including "Mr. Rangers", John Greig. And three days later, the BBC broadcast some people saying not very nice things about owner Craig Whyte's business dealings. Either side of BBC Scotland's documentary Rangers: The Inside Story, Whyte threatened legal action over allegations it made whilst counter-alleging a BBC institutional anti-Rangers bias and joined the queue of football people suing the BBC, just behind West Ham manager Sam Allardyce, who "is going to sue" them.

Building up to this week's final round of group qualifying fixtures for the 2012 European Championships, BBC Radio Scotland has produced short audio pastiches daily on their Sportsound programme featuring new interviews with former Scottish national team players along with rebroadcasting some audio caught in the moment after some big matches.

Why does the English Premier have so many Glasgow boys?

BBC Scotland's David Currie takes a look at a gallery of seven Scottish managers, from in and around Glasgow, who lead teams in the World's richest football division, the English Premier League.

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Veteran Rangers captain David Weir says he would love to take up any offer from Everton manager David Moyes to join the coaching team at Goodison Park.

But the 40-year-old says he will not decide on whether to continue playing until the end of the season.

Moyes told BBC Scotland that he would love Weir to join his backroom staff.