As I have stated here recently it is my view that there are some excellent journalists in Scotland.
However, they are not usually found on a sports desk.
The news department is where they tend to congregate.
Therefore, I was not surprised to see this piece by Peter Swindon today in the Sunday Herald.
He was previous for shining a light on the unsurpassed dignity of the klan subculture that is centred on the Ibrox match day experience.
His expose of a fancy dress party at an Orange Hall was an excellent investigation that served the public interest.
As of last week Peter also now has a top class news editor and she isn’t the type to back down.
Those who think that mainstream journalism in Scotland means breathless regurgitations about billionaires with wealth off the radar are wide of the mark.
It is the absence of that journalistic ethics on the sports desks that has provided the impetus for your humble correspondent.
This site has now been going for ten years.
A decade…
I think it is value added that a named journalist has consistently called out the sports desks about their failings apropos matters Ibrox.
Moreover, I don’t feel the need to be heroically anonymous.
While the chaps on the sports desks continue to fail in their journalistic duty then I will hold THEM to account where appropriate.
For example, I wouldn’t be surprised if the sports desks chaps are currently sitting on the following story:
I’m told that there is a group of influential supporters (there are four of them in at present) who are planning to set up a rival organisation to the officially approved Club 1872.
My information is that they see their raison d’être is to buy shares on behalf of their members and hold the board to account.
This could develop into a major headache for Mr David Cunningham King.
If they finally decide to push the button on this then look out for the slogan “Are you ready?”
Scotland’s finest was more than probably @least 10/20 of those taking part in this hatefset.
Thanks Phil,I’ve been ill so missed your last four posts.
I do hope the other three articles are equally filled with schadenfreude.
HH? Mr.FEAR
Undercover? Intux more apt.
It’s the gift that just keeps on giving.
Here is to another 10 years of side splitting,dummy spitting journalistic extravaganzas Phil.
More power to yer elbow.
HH
Players may not have joined in the singing , but I can imagine who was present. It’s not as if there aren’t plent former oldco players with ‘form’ in the choir and air flute arena.
Interesting that this comes in the week when one of their ‘greats’ has passed on at a criminally early age for any man never mind a professional sportsman.
Ray Wilkins – ‘ the genuine nice guy’ of British football was I am certain just that…. Lots of nods and praise for his footballing stature quite rightly.
Not a word anywhere about how the ‘culture’ of bigotry at IBrokes sat very uneasily with Mr Wilkins, and in fact bothered him quite deeply.
He always seemed like ‘they’ didn’t deserve him. HE certsinly didn’t deserve THEM.
This COULD develop into a major headache for Mr David Cuningham King?
The last thing he needs is another headache.
Pity poor David.
I do find the takeover panel’s lack of faith disturbing.
It’s almost as if they’ve not taken into consideration Mr King’s past record as a pillar of the business community on three continents.
In fact they’re treating him with the disrespect one would reserve for a career criminal.
Surely he should be given a little more time, now that he’s lodged funds in escrow and submitted a proper offer docum…
Oh wait.
The irony of the SMSM is that sales would be going through the roof if they’d been honest from the off. Then again, truth in the British press, as a whole, is a laughable (not funny) concept!
Not convinced there is any such thing as ‘influential Bears’. Intelligence is so lacking amongst their whole mindset that they can’t last five minutes without falling out or reverting to wading in Fenian blood.
Lol good comments. I guess their unwillingness to print the truth on the team we call Rangers is more down to the structural integrity of their glass than their sales though.
Didn’t one of their fans smash the revolving door a few years ago?
I blame this on the emergence of Chap culture! Next thing you know they’ll be performing The Famine Song replete in Saville Row tweeds, sporting handlebar moustaches and monacles ! One wonders how to attire oneself when wading knee deep in Papal-originated plasma this season! A connundrum indeed! It just goes to show that the sort of people who congregate in their hundreds in evening dress- no need to worry about budget or cost- to sing their historic repertoire, are indeed a class apart! Pip pip!
Good morning Phil
Great start to a Sunday with your post wetting our appetites further
Can I ask you this ?
Do you see the 20p share offer possibly collapsing before the offer even gets off the launch pad ?
Enjoy your Sunday
Last weekend the sevco elite had a “charity” bash to celebrate their 9 in a row , the means they used to accomplish this still resonates with them as being perfectly acceptable.
Evidently this alternate supporters group was given a mention during proceedings in a cryptic kind of way.
I have a couple of mates that work in the unfortunate hotel that hosted this celebratory event ,I actually live across the road from it when im in Glasgow.
Both these people are of Irish descent ,and the night proved very trying for them.
Keeping in mind this is their supposed elite paying on average in the region of £100 a go, the night didn’t take long to turn into the usual anti Irish/ anti Roman Catholic hate fest.
All suited and booted ,tuxedo’s ,etc even dressed in their best duds they didn’t take long to be up to their knees again.
I watched nearly nine hundred of them spilling out into the town centre ,still spreading their bile as they left, Glasgow,s finest constabulary was notable in its absence.
Imagine that was the core of your being ,im glad to say I cant ,no great boast. I would really just like them to go away. Forever more. be lucky John
Glasgow finest were missing, or were they “undercover”?