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Daily Mirror
Daily Mirror
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Nathan Ridley

BBC end long-running feud with Rangers as seven-year boycott is overturned

The BBC has ended its seven-year boycott of Rangers and will resume full reporting on Giovanni van Bronckhorst 's side from the beginning of the 2022-23 season.

While the broadcaster still remotely featured Rangers matches in their coverage, BBC journalists will once again attend games at Ibrox and take part in press conferences for the first time since 2015.

The decision comes after the network apologised for past failures to meet its own editorial standards. The BBC's boycott began seven years ago after Rangers banned reporter Chris McLaughlin alongside another journalist, Graham Spiers, a columnist with The Times.

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