Andy Naylor was reporting on matches and providing opinion in the monday argus. Most of the protests took place at matches and Naylor's 'opinion' offended the board. As TLO says, the argus as a whole were banned. There is a difference between uncovering stories and providing opinion and that was...
the goldstone sale did not in any way get discovered, announced or reported by the sports department at the argus. It came from a tip off to Ian Hart who alerted the Deputy Editor who ensured that Paul Bracchi (the best investigative journalist at the Argus for some time) did the digging...