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.
View the full story here: BBC
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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.