Stuart Cosgrove broke broadcast guidelines with comments about Rangers legend Richard Gough, the BBC has found

[mdingwall]

BBC host committed breach of standards with unacceptable Rangers hero claim

RADIO HOST Stuart Cosgrove broke broadcast guidelines with comments about Rangers legend Richard Gough, the BBC has found. The Beeb has published the outcome of two resolved complaints against its …

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But they are doing nothing about the cancerous knut apart from sending him on a diversity course.

Another example, as if any more were needed, that the Bbc is a Free Fire Zone for anti Rangers bigots.

 

[insanicdrunk]

That will really show him sent on a course!!

 

[Mountaingoat]

Two absolute dinosaurs well past their sell by date

 

[vintime]

That'll be the equality and diversity training that they have already wasted around £600,000 per year on for no apparent reason, squandering license payers' hard earned on shite like this.
A totally rancid organisation that's no longer fit for purpose, and hopelessly past it's sell by date.
Unfortunately this buffoon will be back on air pretty soon with his equally loathsome prick of a sidekick.
Fkn shocking.

 

[Jan Wyck]

BBC is, in Scotland, now an acronym for Bitter Bigoted Catholics.

 

[Cooper's left peg]

They're just laughing and sticking their two fingers up.

Absolute fucking scum.

 

[RAFBob]

BBC host committed breach of standards with unacceptable Rangers hero claim

RADIO HOST Stuart Cosgrove broke broadcast guidelines with comments about Rangers legend Richard Gough, the BBC has found. The Beeb has published the outcome of two resolved complaints against its …

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

But they are doing nothing about the cancerous knut apart from sending him on a diversity course.

Another example, as if any more were needed, that the Bbc is a Free Fire Zone for anti Rangers bigots.

BBC Scotland are an organisation full of rats, but they won't be removed while they suck the right cock.

 

[billywizz]

To think he had the gall to sing "have you seen a handsome hun" at one point. Him. Cosgrove. Literally the ugliest speckiest fanny on the planet.

 

[Maughlan]

At 71, it’s a matter of time before he’s put out to pasture

 

[insanicdrunk]

At 71, it’s a matter of time before he’s put out to pasture

20 years ago was the time.

 

[JohnD]

Hard drive check would result in him never breathing fresh air again.

 

[HamiltonJungleBear]

This can’t be the end. Can you imagine if any BBC employee said anything half as offensive about, say, Billy McNeill or Paul McStay or Tommy Burns. They would never work again.

 

[Overanout]

At 71, it’s a matter of time before he’s put out to pasture

I didn't realise he was that age

 

[karen's day]

Knowing the BBC , i think that will be the end of this complaint

 

[Big Joke New]

Two absolute dinosaurs well past their sell by date

No problem with Tam Cowan at all. Totally entertaining guy to listen to most of the time. Cosgrove is very different - a total bore who thinks he's clever but is actually very stupid.

 

[Damski]

People still tune-in to these two? Been about 15 years since I did and they were unfunny then.

 

[Brian Laudrup]

If any Rangers supporters are still funding this Rangers hating organisation through the tv licence fee then they need to take a long hard look at themselves in the mirror

 

[carlosapicella]

BBC is, in Scotland, now an acronym for Bitter Bigoted Catholics.

Will always be BiasedBigotedCorrupt all of it!

 

[Kaiser]

On a bus in 1998 in Lyon. World Cup.

This tadger and Tam Cowan, surrounded by laughing sycophants.

As funny as having psoriasis on yer head like he has. Saw him picking his heid, some time later in the airport lounge in Heathrow.

 

[Super-Swally]

F*ck that bitter kunt and f*ck the BBC.

What a joke, kunt should be getting his jotters.

 

[UlsterScotGer]

This can’t be the end. Can you imagine if any BBC employee said anything half as offensive about, say, Billy McNeill or Paul McStay or Tommy Burns. They would never work again.

Or even the truth about a couple of them.

 

[Rangerista]

Cosgrove's 71, feckin hell, I thought he was a lot older?

 

[Amato Amore]

BBC Scotland presenter committed breach of standards with unacceptable claim about Rangers hero

And his co-host has attended equality and diversity training

David Oliver, Online Sports Reporter

Updated: 19:03, 28 Mar 2024

RADIO HOST Stuart Cosgrove broke broadcast guidelines with comments about Rangers legend Richard Gough, the BBC has found.

The Beeb has published the outcome of two resolved complaints against its Off The Ball radio programme - which airs on Saturday lunchtime before the Scottish footballcoverage kicks off.

Rangers hero Richard Gough was a legendary captain and also held ambassador roles at IbroxCredit: Keith Campbell - The Sun Glasgow

And Cosgrove, 71, had a discussion with bosses over his comments which were aired in January

Former Rangers, Everton and Dundee United defender Gough was not involved in the programme when Cosgrove said he was unsure if the Scotland international - who was born in Sweden but raised in South Africa - was "against apartheid".

A listener complaint was upheld by the broadcasters' executive complaints unit and found BBC Scotland had "already acknowledged the breach of standards" and resolved the issue.

The outcome determined the comments "gave the impression of being a personal attack on someone who did not have the opportunity of responding, and went beyond what would be considered generally acceptable in a programme of this kind."

Gough played for Dundee United and Spurs before two spells at Rangers either side of a move to Kansas City Wizards.

He also played for San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS and finished his career at Everton.

The complaint made around Cosgrove's comments was one of two made against Off The Ball, which he and Tam Cowan have hosted since 1995.

The irreverant show, jokingly self-branded as 'the most petty an ill-informed programme on radio' dub their hosts the 'odd couple' of Scottish football.

Cowan was also found to have breached the BBC Editorial Guidelines for making comments with "elements of sexism and sexual innuendo" on air in February.

He was given equality, diversity and inclusion training to resolve the complaint after another listener complained about a story detailing a shopping trip with his wife.

The ECU found that those elements were "unsuitable for a programme broadcast at Saturday lunchtime".

But the presenter taking part in the additional training was found "sufficient to resolve the issue of the complaint," the ECU said.

Neither programme in focus is available to re-listen on BBC Sounds app or in the programme catalogue on Apple podcasts.

Only recent programmes from the past month are available for download or to stream.

 

[Gauche.]

Yet another reason why the BBC should not be allowed near our club.
That show started in 1995, it should have been ended in 1996.

 

[DarthVader]

I feel the presence of my hate monster just reading his name.

 

[RoxburghGer]

That would be a sackable or at least disciplinary offence in a lot of places of employment

 

[weebudsbud]

He can count himself lucky Goughie wasn`t in the building when said comments were made.

 

[top_cat]

71 years old, tick tock you sad, fat, old bastard.

 

[Captain_Buns]

BBC host committed breach of standards with unacceptable Rangers hero claim

RADIO HOST Stuart Cosgrove broke broadcast guidelines with comments about Rangers legend Richard Gough, the BBC has found. The Beeb has published the outcome of two resolved complaints against its …

www.thescottishsun.co.uk

But they are doing nothing about the cancerous knut apart from sending him on a diversity course.

Another example, as if any more were needed, that the Bbc is a Free Fire Zone for anti Rangers bigots.

Rangers should ban this mob permanently.

 

[Arcadian]

A 50 year paedo ring and the antisemitic harassment of an innocent Jewish footballer is accepted without comment but a Rangers great is routinely slandered and all is deemed OK?
%^*& the BBC

 

[Japandroid]

From reading the article in post #23, the equality, diversity and inclusion training was only given because of comments about a shopping trip? Nothing to do with the Gough comments.

 

[sg9375]

BBC Scotland won’t give 2 hoots about the findings. Bosses will be delighted with the wankers comments about a Rangers legend. They hate us with a passion. Get them banned for life.

 

[Sir Sidney Ruff Diamond]

I complained at the time. Response I received didn't appear to indicate he had a case to answer.

 

[Bluethruandthru]

I didn't realise he was that age

Proof as if any were needed that even age fails to dilute that inbred hatred.

 

[104Bear]

He won’t go any fucking diversity course.

 

[PawsBear]

Yet another reason why the BBC should not be allowed near our club.
That show started in 1995, it should have been ended in 1996.

Apologies for correcting your typo....

That show started in 1995, it should have been ended in 1994.

 

[dapper dado]

71...not many more years to suffer the fat, flaky, faux-intellectual.

 

[HotToddy]

Just %^*& off and die BBC Scotland

 

[Chryston Bear]

He’ll die British, with a British passport, that’s what kills them all from the inside out.

 

[Sancus]

It was only Cowan who went on a diversity course.

Cosgrove had a “discussion with bosses”.

 

[Big D]

That will really show him sent on a course!!

Doubt they'll be sending him anywhere. Probably a quick online course he can do during the adverts, with half a dozen multiple choice questions at the the end and hey, the BBC will tell us that's him re-educated and cured of being an ignorant, arrogant, hate-filled prick.

 

[Sancus]

Doubt they'll be sending him anywhere. Probably a quick online course he can do during the adverts, with half a dozen multiple choice questions at the the end and hey, the BBC will tell us that's him re-educated and cured of being an ignorant, arrogant, hate-filled prick.

As I read it, he was never going to be sent on any diversity course. He had a “discussion with bosses” and that was it.

 

[TWFWSOJB]

At 71, it’s a matter of time before he’s put out to pasture

happened years ago,

the guy's a prick

 

[Dale Gordon's Tache]

What exactly will they be teaching him on this course?

Cosgrove is forever preaching about diversity and going on about his black wife and mixed race child like a badge of honour. He complains about the prejudice his family have faced.

But when it comes down to it, his hatred of Rangers (let’s be honest anything connected to Protestants or Unionists) is never far from the surface.

 

[jweebear]

If he had said that against any ex-celtic captain, he would have been out a job. But we know the BBC Scotland allow bigoted comments against Rangers players

 

[temperance]

BBC Scotland presenter committed breach of standards with unacceptable claim about Rangers hero

And his co-host has attended equality and diversity training

David Oliver, Online Sports Reporter

Updated: 19:03, 28 Mar 2024

RADIO HOST Stuart Cosgrove broke broadcast guidelines with comments about Rangers legend Richard Gough, the BBC has found.

The Beeb has published the outcome of two resolved complaints against its Off The Ball radio programme - which airs on Saturday lunchtime before the Scottish footballcoverage kicks off.

Rangers hero Richard Gough was a legendary captain and also held ambassador roles at IbroxCredit: Keith Campbell - The Sun Glasgow

And Cosgrove, 71, had a discussion with bosses over his comments which were aired in January

Former Rangers, Everton and Dundee United defender Gough was not involved in the programme when Cosgrove said he was unsure if the Scotland international - who was born in Sweden but raised in South Africa - was "against apartheid".

A listener complaint was upheld by the broadcasters' executive complaints unit and found BBC Scotland had "already acknowledged the breach of standards" and resolved the issue.

The outcome determined the comments "gave the impression of being a personal attack on someone who did not have the opportunity of responding, and went beyond what would be considered generally acceptable in a programme of this kind."

Gough played for Dundee United and Spurs before two spells at Rangers either side of a move to Kansas City Wizards.

He also played for San Jose Earthquakes in the MLS and finished his career at Everton.

The complaint made around Cosgrove's comments was one of two made against Off The Ball, which he and Tam Cowan have hosted since 1995.

The irreverant show, jokingly self-branded as 'the most petty an ill-informed programme on radio' dub their hosts the 'odd couple' of Scottish football.

Cowan was also found to have breached the BBC Editorial Guidelines for making comments with "elements of sexism and sexual innuendo" on air in February.

He was given equality, diversity and inclusion training to resolve the complaint after another listener complained about a story detailing a shopping trip with his wife.

The ECU found that those elements were "unsuitable for a programme broadcast at Saturday lunchtime".

But the presenter taking part in the additional training was found "sufficient to resolve the issue of the complaint," the ECU said.

Neither programme in focus is available to re-listen on BBC Sounds app or in the programme catalogue on Apple podcasts.

Only recent programmes from the past month are available for download or to stream.

Yet they are still allowed to carry on.

 

[BB50]

To think he had the gall to sing "have you seen a handsome hun" at one point. Him. Cosgrove. Literally the ugliest speckiest fanny on the planet.

At Queen Street Station after we beat them in Cup Final in 90s.

 

[ThorntonMM]

This can’t be the end. Can you imagine if any BBC employee said anything half as offensive about, say, Billy McNeill or Paul McStay or Tommy Burns. They would never work again.

They'd have been sacked before the end of the day that he said it.

 

[karen's day]

The BBC will never change , i long for the day when we ban them and they're ilk. Their only saving grace is that they provide a service for those who cannot attend and if we could overcome that issue then fck them.

 

[greavsie9]

Has Richard Gough received an apology from either of the presenters or anyone else at BBC ?