For over 140 years Rangers has been a name synonymous with football the world over, a club respected and admired due to its sporting achievements and leadership within the Scottish game. How times change though.

In 2014 it has taken the 20th Commonwealth Games to show us how bitter many in this country are when it comes to Rangers or Ibrox. Whether you like it or not, the Games have brought Glasgow to the forefront of the world. Opening ceremony aside they have brought a colour and vibrancy to the city. The city is alive with the buzz from tourists, world media and locals who are delighted at the positivity and genuine sincerity afforded to Glasgow, its venues and its people. Except that is for one venue...Ibrox Stadium, home to Rangers F.C.

It was predictable but sad and utterly pathetic that the usual suspects could only afford snide digs or completely ignore the stadium as best they could when working there or reporting from it.

Ibrox has just hosted a magnificent Rugby Sevens competition. Played over a record breaking four sold out nights and attracting around 180,000 spectators. Many people from here and around the world commented on the atmosphere, the facilities and the magnificent stadium they were in. Especially when you see the Bill Struth Main Stand lit up in all its glory at night. Now a listed building the stand was built by the famous and revered architect Archibald Leitch in 1928. In its time it was considered a masterpiece and is still considered as such to this day. In my view there is no better or finer frontage to a football club in the world than that of the entrance to Ibrox.

It was nice to hear some of the comments from people working or visiting it during the rugby. For example Mark Pougatch from BBC Radio5Live tweeted a picture of the front of Ibrox with these words "A bit of Archibald Leitch for you. The grandfather and godfather of football architects. Sadly none of his ilk today"

Another was John Inverdale who was waxing lyrical about the stadium, its history and the atmosphere inside recalling "some famous nights here at Ibrox over the years and this is another".

And then we had Brendan Foster and Steve Cram giving a good history lesson on Ibrox and its connections to athletics back in the early 1900's. Cram then asked the cameraman in the helicopter to make sure they got a good view of it as they flew overhead.

You noticed the connection yet?

Yes that's right...they weren't from BBC Scotland or indeed any outlet in Scotland. They were simply professionals doing a job and offering their honest opinions free from the bile and hatred associated with their Scottish counterparts.

No one wants a sycophant. We just want professionalism. Something that is sadly missing up here for the vast majority of so-called journalists and commentators.

And to prove the point it was noticeable how downbeat the Scottish commentators were when they replaced their counterparts from down south.

Cathy McDonald, reporting from outside Ibrox on Monday morning managed to spend nearly half an hour avoiding using the word Ibrox, preferring to use the word "stadium". You may care to note she had no problems mentioning Hampden by name. Now maybe that was the fault of the individual(s) who prepared her script so perhaps we shouldn't be too hard on Cathy, eh?

Prior to that we had the well known Rangers-hater Chris McLaughlin flying up the Clyde in a helicopter giving the viewers a rundown on the various venues and areas covered in these Games. One venue was omitted from his ramblings...you guessed it, Ibrox Stadium. Oh and he even managed to tell the world about the East End of Glasgow which is where millions of Irish famine refugees settled. Good old BBC Scotland reverting to type as usual.

And of course we couldn't end this article without mentioning two of the most odious and bitter non-entities who get free reign, time and time again, to spout their bile about us. I refer of course to the discredited Graham Spiers and the "nice guy when you get to know him" Tom English. Both were at the rugby and both couldn't resist their usual childish digs at us. First up was Spiers with comments about less "traditional" singing than usual and that his bike, chained up just outside the Louden Tavern would be having bolt cutters taken to it.

Then it was the turn of Tom English. On commenting that over the two days he'd been at Ibrox for almost 15 hours he asked if he was there any longer would he be entitled to an E.B.T. referring of course to the wage scheme Rangers used in the recent past, the scheme which the Scottish football authorities and media claimed was illegal, only for the law courts to find the scheme perfectly legal.

Some may say it was only "humour" and we should ignore them. I disagree. Those who went before them showed their professionalism and worked to the standards many of us expect. Cheap petty digs are expected from those with no real standards and indeed a level of bitterness that belongs in the gutter.

Thankfully our reputation and that of the Stadium has been enhanced the world over thanks to the Rugby Sevens. If only we had more people like Inverdale and Foster who simply did their jobs properly.