Oh dear.
I wish I could write about happy things.
However, I’m afraid my sadness today is off the radar.
I had hoped that the revisionism disease in the mainstream apropos dodgy dealings at Ibrox had been cleared up.
Sadly, it now seems full blown.
Try this for size:
“Back at the start when Craig Whyte dispatched a banning order to the Daily Record HQ for warning them about his season-ticket scam – a full six months before it eventually tipped the club into the grubby hands of the administrators”
The entire tour de farce can be read here at the Daily Radar.
Click the link at your own discretion.
Now, dear reader please count back six months from February 2012.
However many times you try you don’t get to the start of June 2011.
Here is my analysis of the Whyte regime a few weeks after he had parted with his pound and been given the keys to the Big House.
Now here from 2013 is a Professor of journalism giving his assessment of the Daily Radar and the Rangers story.
And here from 2014 when Professor Greenslade used the term “stenographers” to describe the succulent bams.
My own take is that the Daily Radar operates on the basis that the collective memory of The People is a bit dodgy.
Whatever excrement comes down the pipe at Ibrox in the coming period regular readers here will not be in the surprised camp.
Since the Off Licence Putsch of March 2015, this site has charted King’s duplicitous reign of error.
However, others were cheerleading from the sides lines.
The local media desperately wanted a convicted criminal to oust a genuine billionaire.
Moreover, Ashley had guys in the building working to a self-sustaining agenda.
Yet the stenographers could detect the heady aroma of succulent impala from south of the Limpopo.
The man with 41 criminal convictions could count on the sports desks in Glasgow to push his case to The People.
Their excitement when King entered the Big House was off the radar.
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Succulent Impala….quality Phil
Over the last few years the constant diet of good news, bigging up, and the complete no no that bad news must never see the light of day has those of a blue persuasion unable to separate truth from lies.
Despite the disaster that was the latest financial accounts, despite the Close Bros loan secured against parts of the Ibrox infrastructure, despite not a penny being spent in January to add to the squad with loanees and a buy now pay later deal for Docherty brokered by the Park family who have a foot in both camps……. Are you paying attention SFA?
Despite the COS order casting a huge shadow over King and his promise that NOAL will provide the funds wrt the share offer.
Despite all this the fan base in general thinks everything is tickety boo and apart from the recent reversals on the field of play, despite all the evidence to the contrary, they are expecting a new manager and investment in the squad in the next window.
Deluded doesn’t cover whats going on in their heads.
The fee for Docherty, the wished for signing of Murphy by the support, the repayment of the Close Bros loan, will rip the best part of €7m from ST intake.
Thats nearly 25% of total annual revenue gone on day one.
Not forgetting the possible wee problem with the UEFA licence for season 2018/19, given the lies that the same people spun in 2012 to secure that licence fraudulently.
Who knows how UEFA will react when news filters through to them that a national governing body has no adequate measures in place to check the honesty and integrity of a club’s licence application and furthermore are in the process of granting a licence to that same club for next season.
The FFP restrictions alone would bring into question Newco’s suitability for a licence.
What is the Compliance Officer doing? He’s had 6 months to review SFA licencing procedures yet all that has been revealed, well leaked, is that AJ has not yet been passed F&P and may or may not have signed off on the 2012 fraudulent licence application in his capacity then as Chairman of the football club.
Just a hint of Jacko leaving a foot in both camps recently with some soft words and gentle hints that the King just might be after all denuded. Straying into off message territory from time to time … is Jaba not rolling the vittals down the hill ??
When it all goes feeding stations up we cannot leave the narrative to those pesky internet blogger type chaps, enter a serious stenographer, who can serve up the breaking news with a side dish of I saw it all coming. Is Jacko auditioning to be that stenographer ??
Read all about it he will say …. but readers of this site have been doing just that for many years … thanks Phil
On other new media news ….. the man who invented predictive text for our phones has, I am sad to say, passed away …. his funfair is planned for next Monkey .
I’ll get my coat
My favourite line from this peice is, ” regular readers here will not be in the surprised camp”.
You’ve never spoken a truer word.
I heard a Glasgow taxi driver on C1SSB tonight and he certainly will.
He also won’t be alone.
Anyone who reads Keith Jackson’s reports in the Daily Record and believes, is in need of psychiatric help. That rag ceased to be a newspaper when Jackson and Jim Traynor took over. Do yourselves a favour, read Phil’s stories. The truth starts here.
Ah wee coco sniffing the glue again .He is shouting his mouth off about a CB they should sign this summer for 800 grand who has played around the world .Japan Germany and a few other places so has the experience. He wants Alves Martin and someone else out the team as they are not rangers class in the centre of defence. Breaking news for you coco nae dosh no money el skinto that’s why they had to sub the Close brothers ya nugget . Another benny wanted a straight swap yesterday Boyd for Morelos no cash to change hands a 21 year old striker worth 15 million according coco for a 30 something hasbeen oh the bennys quality gold .
Thanks Phil,as per,informative and insightful.TYVVM TTFRNOO ?
Its a complete mystery as to why Jackson is still in the employment of a news paper even one that is fast declining. Keith Jackson is an embarrassment to real journalists and if the DR had any sense and wish to have any chance of survival it would rid itself of him and his like . Daily Record is dying a slow death
This is the same paper that employs Barry Ferguson – the literary genius that recently concluded that Celtic gained an ADVANTAGE over “rangers” with the sending off of Simunovic! Like the rest of the typewriting monkeys employed by that arserag, he’s as bright as a 2 Watt solar-powered light bulb!
Funny how Chris itchy sack Jack has been posted missing since the sevco defeat on Saturday. We have a better chance of hearing from Lord Lucan or seeing the invisible man . No doubt he will be hanging out with wee Barry the bankrupt to compare notes on how to spin a positive on the defeat to the bennys on Saturday. We might get to hear of more extentions to a couple more contracts feed the bennys that they lap that right up let’s them think there is some cash in the bank lol but they won’t realise just how Close brother Barry we are to bankrupt just like yourself oops sorry Barry didn’t mean that. That’s ok itchy I can deal with that .
I always like to eat succulent Impala the day after it’s been roasted.
Cold Shoulder being my preferred cut.
Great piece Phil.
Tender meatballs must have orders from Traynor to change the script.I wonder how many shareholders including directors will be eagerly awaiting the 20p offer from King.
A brief synopsis: “Oh shit! There’s a shit storm coming. Any shit could happen. Better get some shit horoscope opinions out there so I can say I predicted whatever shit sticks. Wonder if the Fat Controller has some confusional shit I can use?”
It would beggar belief, if you believed! If Keith Jackson told me his name was Keith Jackson, I’d be reluctant to take him at face value!
I’m sure he does what he does to put food on the table. If he didn’t cow-tow someone else would. I’m sure that’s what collaborators in Vichy France told themselves! I’m sure that once he has saved up enough cash to have his tongue surgically removed from the private orrafice of the Mighty Jabba, he will rebuild his reputation. I call it a Jackson certainty!
Class writer, Phil.
Please don’t stop.
Phil, there’s nothing wrong with “succulent impala.”
If it is ,marinaded in Irn Bru for 24 hours, then well roasted over a Daily Record powered spit, and served on a base of Sevco turnip heads. Delicious!
Top notch blog and so true.
Thank you.
Haha great piece Phil.
Yeah factual inaccuracy all over the place by jacko. Skirted around most issues.
No mention off the cold shoulder coming down the pipe, the loan of last resort, the hawking of the family silver.
No word of the extra funding needed to see out the season.
Just a lazy bit of “journalism” that he could have gleaned from yourself or any blog.
Hope you had a good weekend for feile Padraig.
HH
Your article on Craig white remains my favourite piece of blogging ever. Still makes me smile today.Thank you sir
Jacko must think that his readers are all pensioners in the latter stages of a memory loss affliction.
He’s probably spot on, who of sound mind would be seen with a copy of the Daily Radar?
When it all goes tits up for Newco in the very near future he will be claiming that the DR were all over the story.
Aye right Jacko, as we say in Glasgow.
Hi Phil was getting ready to post this morning when I was on my way to work after reading Keech Jackass and his article. I could not believe what I was reading talk Jabout Jackanory and telling lies as well as his dates all over the place . This James Hunt is forgetting it was him that fed us all of his Turkish delight since day one with his off the RADAR pish billionaire. Now he wants to feed us stuff as if we have all been blind to what’s went on at ibrox this guy is comedy gold. Getc the nappies and huggies pull ups on folk before you read his pish in the Daily Rectum today.
What an a hole jackson is phil still spiutin shit years later.
“My sadness today is off the radar” … and … “succulent impala” … two genuine laugh out loud moments. ?
Reign of error!!