Sky Sports journalist shares what Hampden source says about Rangers anniversary kit controversy
Sky Sports journalist Anthony Joseph has been told by a source at Hampden Park that Rangers did register their anniversary kit with the SPFL before the season started.
Rangers were supposed to wear an all-white kit in their 1-0 win against Aberdeen at Ibrox on Saturday [5 March] to commemorate their 150th anniversary.
Joseph reports that Rangers did register the kit with the SPFL in the summer and a source has backed that up.
Joseph said via his personal Twitter account: “A Hampden source has now confirmed the kit was registered with the SPFL at the start of the season.”
What’s going on?
None of this makes sense.
Joseph reported on Saturday that the SFA and SPFL didn’t receive a request from Rangers to play their all-white kit against Aberdeen.
However, the Gers did submit a request to do so in the summer and now a source at Hampden Park is backing this up.
But at the same time, the club is saying that they feel it’s “fitting to wear our traditional blue home strip” against Aberdeen.
Heart & Hand Podcast, an official media partner of the Gers, add that the all-white 150th-anniversary kit will be worn in the future at some point.
But no one is explaining why the kit wasn’t worn on Saturday against Aberdeen when the fans were told that would be the case.
How about some transparency, Rangers? Right now, a lot of fans are feeling as though they’ve been done over by the club they support.
And it’s the second time this week the club has had to wrestle control of a narrative due to their silence on the tour of Australia later this year to play Celtic.
It’s not good enough.
In other Rangers news, the Light Blues are in pursuit of a “special” Dutch player who Giovanni van Bronckhorst handed his debut.