The Scotland Daily Record published an article in which a Scottish Championship side Rangers footballer, Sébastien Faure, “hit out at the stricken club and its fans,” according to Roy Greenslade of the London GUARDIAN. It "was not the scoop it purported to be" because reporter Steve Goodman’s piece "had been lifted entirely from a French football website, Hat-Trick." All the quotes "were contained in a Q&A interview with Faure by the site’s owner, the enterprising French journalist Romain Molina." There "was no attribution to him or his website." Indeed, "it would appear to any reader as if Faure had spoken to Goodman." Now "an angry Molina is planning to sue the Record." After seeing the Record piece, he tweeted to the paper, “Can you explain me why my interview with Sébastien Faure became your interview?” He said that "he received no reply from the paper." But "his tweet did elicit a series of dismissive and sarcastic responses from the Record’s senior football writer, Keith Jackson." He referred to Molina as a “drama queen” and thought his complaint “a pathetic overreaction.” He followed up by tweeting that if Molina “has his knickers in a twist then he should take it up with Steve Goodman” (GUARDIAN, 1/2).
