Jordan Jones Opens Up on Controversial Rangers Exit
Jordan Jones admits that nearly four years on, the way his Rangers career ended still doesn’t sit right with him. The Northern Ireland international claims that the seven-game ban he received for breaching COVID-19 restrictions—which ultimately contributed to his departure—was blown out of proportion.
Jones first caught attention at Kilmarnock before being signed by Steven Gerrard in the summer of 2019, following a pre-contract agreement signed six months earlier. However, he struggled to establish himself at Ibrox, making only 19 appearances over the next 18 months.
In November 2020, Jones and teammate George Edmundson made headlines for the wrong reasons, receiving a seven-game ban and fines after attending a house party during the nationwide lockdown. Neither would play for Rangers again. Jones moved to Sunderland on loan two months later before making a permanent switch to Wigan, where he spent three years.
Edmundson went out on loan to Derby before signing permanently for Ipswich in July 2021 and later joining Middlesbrough at the start of the current season.
When asked about his feelings at the time, the 31-year-old reflected:
“Yeah, it felt surreal. Nicola Sturgeon, everyone in Parliament—they were all speaking out… We knew we’d broken the rules and accepted that, but it honestly felt like we were being made out to be the worst people on the planet. We had four more people in the house than allowed, yet years later it came out that the government was doing the same thing! It was just ‘Wow.’”
He continued: “Two weeks later, when we returned to Rangers, we apologised, and the manager was really supportive. He saw the media, fans, and public backlash we’d faced. The plan was to play George and me in the next game so everyone knew it had been put behind us. But then the SFA handed us a seven-game ban. We had already missed some matches, which pushed our return to January.
“Steven Gerrard told us it would be tough to break back into the team after nearly three months out, which I understood. We trained with the first team until January, then started exploring loan moves.
“At the time, my partner was pregnant with our son, due in April. Sunderland made sense—they were only 50 minutes from home—so I moved there and really enjoyed being part of another big football club.”
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