This is a story of political correctness gone mad! Last week Tony Gordon in Coronation Street insulted Glasgow Rangers….God forbid!!! So after receiving numerous complaints from Ranger supporters, Corrie bosses have rewritten future scripts so as not to p**s them off again.

One of the character’s lines in a future episode read : “warm beer, the English national anthem and Glasgow Rangers” – but this has now been dropped.

A Corrie spokewoman said: “Both comments were in keeping with the character of Tony Gordon.

“But we have to bear in mind that it does seem to have caused some upset so the decision was made to take the line out.

“It doesn’t compromise the drama of the episode and if it did then the line definitely wouldn’t have been taken out.”

I didn’t think that a group of burly football fans would have been so easily offended or so hyper sensitive that they can’t even hear a fictional character express a dislike for their team.

I suppose it was lucky that Corrie bosses did remove any further insults from their scripts or we may have had a gang of tearful Ranger fans protesting outside the studios!