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{{Infobox person
| name = Adam Michael Lovatt
| birth_date = 1984<ref name="SPbirth">[[ScotlandsPeople]], Statutory Registers index, births: Adam Michael Lovatt, 1984, registration district Glasgow (Martha Street), ref. 613/622, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>
| birth_place = Glasgow (birth registered at Martha Street)<ref name="SPbirth" />
| residence = England<ref name="PressBox2025">Graham Spiers (host), with Adam Lovatt and Andrew Smith, [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025.</ref>
| known_for = Rangers supporter; guest on the ''Press Box'' podcast, July 2025
}}
'''Adam Michael Lovatt''' (born 1984) is a [[Rangers Football Club|Rangers]] supporter who appeared as a guest on [[Graham Spiers]]'s ''Press Box'' podcast episode "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?", published on 20 July 2025, alongside [[Andrew Smith]].<ref name="PressBox2025" /> His birth was registered at Martha Street, Glasgow, in 1984.<ref name="SPbirth" />

== Press Box podcast, July 2025 ==
The episode discussed whether Scottish clubs should sign Israeli players, following reports linking Rangers with the Israeli footballer [[Dor Turgeman]].<ref name="PressBox2025" /> Lovatt's remarks included the following (timestamps refer to the episode).

* '''Signing Israeli players''' (3:40–7:50): "my take is that I don't think where an individual comes from should play any part in whether Rangers or indeed any football club in Scotland or beyond…should sign them." He added: "I think it is very difficult to turn round and say that Rangers should not sign an individual because of where that individual happens to come from", and "I don't fundamentally think that we can get ourselves in a situation where we sign or don't sign players in Scotland or beyond because of their nationality or religion or skin colour or whatever that may be."<ref name="PB340_750">Graham Spiers (host), [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025, at 3:40–7:50.</ref>
* '''Supporting Rangers''' (3:40–7:50): "I've been a Rangers fan for 30 years Graham and I support Rangers because they were the club that was closest to me growing up."<ref name="PB340_750" />
* '''Flags at Ibrox''' (13:05–13:50): "I've never seen a Palestinian flag. I have seen Israeli flags".<ref name="PB1305_1350">Graham Spiers (host), [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025, at 13:05–13:50.</ref> Later (23:40–25:23): "I have seen Israeli flags at [[Ibrox Stadium|Ibrox]]. I've never seen a Palestinian flag at Ibrox unless it's waved by Celtic supporters but I think that element of the Rangers supporters who are waving Israeli flags are doing it as a way of sticking two fingers up to the Celtic fans for the flags that they are waving."<ref name="PB2340_2523">Graham Spiers (host), [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025, at 23:40–25:23.</ref> And (25:42–27:12): "If I wasn't looking for it I wouldn't see it ... you're talking a handful."<ref name="PB2542_2712">Graham Spiers (host), [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025, at 25:42–27:12.</ref>
* '''[[Celtic Football Club|Celtic]]''' (18:50–21:05): "I would say that Celtic have both a Jewish problem and an Israeli problem the same way as Rangers have problems with different sections of society as well." In the same passage he spoke "as someone who lived in Glasgow for a large proportion of my life".<ref name="PB1850_2105">Graham Spiers (host), [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025, at 18:50–21:05.</ref>
* '''Tony Bloom hypothetical''' (25:42–27:12): "Let's say that hypothetically [[Tony Bloom]] who is a prominent Jewish businessman, who's supported charities in Israel, him or someone similar to him comes along to Celtic and said we want to buy the club for 500 million ... would Celtic accept an investment from an individual like Tony Bloom and would they accept an Israeli international coming from one of his clubs like USG to Celtic?"<ref name="PB2542_2712" />
* '''Russia and Israel''' (later in the episode, in reply to a question from Andrew Smith on why Russia was banned but not Israel): "if you go back to the origins of the current conflict - and I'm not talking about 1948 -you go back to the origins of the current conflict involving Israel and the origins of the current conflict, involving Russia, they commenced in very very different ways."<ref name="PressBox2025" />
* '''The Israeli government''' (later in the episode): speaking of "some people within Gaza who will say that they want Hamas out", he said: "Whether the force is proportionate or not - I'm not having that conversation - but the point being that there might be some that say d'you know what? The Israeli government are doing what the Israeli government has to do. Andrew will disagree - but I'm just saying that there may well be some people who say that".<ref name="PressBox2025" />
* '''Residence''' (later in the episode): he described himself "as someone who lives in England but loves Scottish football and doesn't particularly love English football".<ref name="PressBox2025" />

==Notes==
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 | parents = [[Stanley Lovatt]] and [[Carole Lovatt]] (née Haase)<ref name="SPHaase">[[ScotlandsPeople]], Statutory Registers index, births, searched by surname Lovatt and mother's maiden name Haase, from 1942 (three entries, all registered at Glasgow, Martha Street): Gillian Susan Lovatt, 1972, ref. 613/811; Mark Warren Lovatt, 1975, ref. 610/334; Adam Michael Lovatt, 1984, ref. 613/622; accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>
 | education = [[Hutchesons' Grammar School]]; [[University of Glasgow]] (law)<ref name="LawScot2017">[[Law Society of Scotland]], [https://www.lawscot.org.uk/members/journal/issues/vol-62-issue-08/a-new-ball-game/ "A new ball game"] (in-house interview with Adam Lovatt), ''Journal of the Law Society of Scotland'', 14 August 2017, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>
-| occupation = Lawyer; in-house counsel, [[Dugout Ltd]] (2017)<ref name="LawScot2017" />
+| occupation = Lawyer; in-house counsel, [[Dugout Ltd]] (2017)<ref name="LawScot2017" />; director, [[Bruce Finance Limited]]<ref name="CHBF">[[Companies House]], [https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/SC065766/officers Bruce Finance Limited (SC065766): officers], accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>
 | residence = England<ref name="PressBox2025">Graham Spiers (host), with Adam Lovatt and Andrew Smith, [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025.</ref>
 | known_for = Rangers supporter; guest on the ''Press Box'' podcast, July 2025
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 ==Education and career==
 In a 2017 interview with the ''Journal'' of the [[Law Society of Scotland]], in which he was described as in-house counsel at [[Dugout Ltd]], Lovatt said he had been at school at [[Hutchesons' Grammar School]] in Glasgow and went on to study law at the [[University of Glasgow]]. He said he still had a season ticket at [[Ibrox Stadium|Ibrox]], and that he had joined Dugout, a social media app connecting football fans with content from clubs, in September 2016 as its sole in-house counsel.<ref name="LawScot2017" />
 == Press Box podcast, July 2025 ==

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 | birth_date = 1984<ref name="SPbirth">[[ScotlandsPeople]], Statutory Registers index, births: Adam Michael Lovatt, 1984, registration district Glasgow (Martha Street), ref. 613/622, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>
 | birth_place = Glasgow (birth registered at Martha Street)<ref name="SPbirth" />
 | residence = England<ref name="PressBox2025">Graham Spiers (host), with Adam Lovatt and Andrew Smith, [https://www.patreon.com/pressbox/posts/is-israeli-in-134562792 "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?"], ''Press Box'' podcast, Patreon, 20 July 2025.</ref>
 | known_for = Rangers supporter; guest on the ''Press Box'' podcast, July 2025
 }}
-'''Adam Michael Lovatt''' (born 1984) is a [[Rangers Football Club|Rangers]] supporter who appeared as a guest on [[Graham Spiers]]'s ''Press Box'' podcast episode "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?", published on 20 July 2025, alongside [[Andrew Smith]].<ref name="PressBox2025" /> His birth was registered at Martha Street, Glasgow, in 1984.<ref name="SPbirth" />
+'''Adam Michael Lovatt''' (born 1984) is a [[Rangers Football Club|Rangers]] supporter who appeared as a guest on [[Graham Spiers]]'s ''Press Box'' podcast episode "Is an Israeli footballer welcome in Scotland?", published on 20 July 2025, alongside [[Andrew Smith]].<ref name="PressBox2025" /> His birth was registered at Martha Street, Glasgow, in 1984.<ref name="SPbirth" /> He is the son of [[Stanley Lovatt]] and [[Carole Lovatt]] (née Haase): the ScotlandsPeople birth index records his mother's maiden name as Haase,<ref name="SPHaase" /> and Stanley Ivan Lovatt married Carole Haase in Glasgow in 1971.<ref name="SPmarriage71">[[ScotlandsPeople]], Statutory Registers index, marriages: Stanley Ivan Lovatt and Carole Haase, 1971, registration district Glasgow, ref. 644/2/285, accessed 29 October 2026.</ref>
 == Press Box podcast, July 2025 ==