BBC WEATHER GIRL'S INSULT TO RANGERS

0 Comments | Sunday Mirror, Jan 22, 2006 | by ROBERT McAULAY

RANGERS fans flooded the BBC with complaints last night after a TV weather girl referred to Ibrox as "Castle Greyskull".

Blonde Kirsty McCabe, from Kilmarnock, presented the forecast on BBC1 just before 9am yesterday.

After telling English football fans about conditions near grounds in London she turned her attention to the weather north of the border.

But she sent Ibrox-bound legions into fury with her bizarre remark. She told those planning to catch the SPL game against Livingston they should "wrap up warm if they're heading for Castle Greyskull".

Celtic fans use the phrase Castle Greyskull as a derogatory reference to the home of their big rivals.

Last night a BBC spokeswoman in Glasgow said: "Several viewers phoned to complain about remarks ...We are investigating the matter and will respond in due course."

Rangers fan Dave Stewart, 24, from Glasgow, said he thought he was hearing things when he listened to Edinburgh University- educated Kirsty read the weather.

He said: "I thought I had misheard what she said but I replayed it and had to believe it. It's a bit of a slur on Rangers to call Ibrox Castle Greyskull and not the type of thing you expect from the BBC."

A BBC insider said: "Rangers fans were ringing in by the dozen to complain. Most were furious she had referred to Ibrox as Castle Greyskull and were demanding an apology from the bosses.

"But loads of people have been seeing the funny side as well."

Castle Greyskull was home of 1990s children's cartoon character He-Man from the programme Masters Of The Universe.