When the BBC chose Cardonald College's most infamous alumni Angela Haggerty to speak about Rangers' EBTs and HMRC's relentless campaign to damage Rangers, it was one of the most transparent pieces of anti-Rangers journalism that the BBC has been responsible for over the years.

While VB have been at the forefront of challenging the BBC's coverage of the club over the years, it is clear that hard fought victories (such as the FOI-driven BBC Trust directive to staff at Pacific Quay to refrain from inaccurate coverage over the status of the controlling entities that have run the football club) are papering over the cracks.

It's fair to say that whoever from the BBC decided it was a good idea to have a jumped up freelance journalist on the programme, who has made her reputation from attacking Rangers, was not intent on producing an impartial report on Rangers.

Of course that could have been a Producer, or it could have been former colleague of Alex Thomson, Sarah Smith. Smith, who is former Labour leader John Smith's daughter, has remarkably had a similar trajectory to Thomson, working in Ulster in the early 90s for the BBC, then working at Channel 4 news.

It could also have been sports reporter Alasdair Lamont, who has always taken a great interest in the utterings of the Rangers Tax Case, and its various newco incarnations.

It could have been an anonymous producer, or the anonymous photographer who took photos of Rangers fans at a VB protest, and posted them on Celtic forums.

Fact is, there are that many Rangers haters at Pacific Quay that it would be like finding a needle in a haystack trying to find who would be that hate filled they would actively try to misrepresent a story in order to paint Rangers in as bad a light as possible.

While the board at Rangers keep their head in the sand, and ignore their own critics, and patronise others, it's up to the Rangers support to highlight what is going on in Scotland, and hope that just one media person of influence will stick their head above the parapet and put a stop to it, as we know the club won't, and Scotland's politicians are too busy arguing with each other to take notice of the concerns of Rangers fans.

Frankly, it suits many within both the Labour and nationalist parties to keep discussing the referendum, as it keeps the voters polarised and distracted away from every day issues.

As sure as night follows day, the appearance of Haggerty on BBC Scotland resulted in a wave of criticism from Rangers fans.

Alas, rather than focus on the bizarre choice of guest chosen to commentate on Rangers EBTs, fellow Rangers hater Roy Greenslade has jumped in via his Guardian blog to defend Haggerty, citing some alleged abuse on FollowFollow, which could have been written by anyone, given that it's an open forum well known to have many Celtic fans with accounts.

We've never had much time for Greenslade on VB, and have rarely mentioned him in dispatches in our articles, although I did read an interesting take on his Republicanism in an article in the Independent by Stephen Glover that suggested he is an active member of Sinn Fein, who wrote for Republican newspaper An Poblacht.

http://www.independent.co.uk/...7561788.html

This you will most probably know is the Sinn Fein newspaper that employed the services of the writer of the book about Rangers that Ms Haggerty edited (Phil Mac Giolla Bhain).

It's a curious relationship between these people, what with Greenslade being a neighbour of both Mac Giolla Bhain and Sinn Fein leader Gerry Adams in Donegal, with Mac Giolla Bhain and Adams having a house in the same town.

It really is a small world, and it's only when the wider Rangers support wake up to this network of hate that we can do something about it.

For our part on VB we will continue to challenge the BBC, and continue to push the Rangers board to challenge unfair media coverage of the club.

I know some Rangers fans think this is unimportant, and that it's up to other people to do it, but it's the responsibility of all of us to ensure fair and accurate coverage of the football club we love.

If we don't, then those who seek to damage us will continue to do so, and damage us they have. Were it not for the media frenzy created by Rangers haters in the years leading up to our Administration, we would still be in the top tier of Scottish football preparing for European football, of that I have no doubts.

The club may have been mismanaged by David Murray, then shafted at least twice since, but I believe strongly that a unified support fighting a media onslaught effectively would have ensured that the club would not have been too risky for buyers when Murray was looking to sell.

From this point forward, we all need to think in terms of protecting the club from enemies of all persuasions, and doing our bit to not only recover from the damage already inflicted, but ensuring it can never happen again.