If you have decided to propagate an Orwellian lie then it really isn’t advisable to tell the truth beforehand.
It kinda spoils the entire endeavour.
However, that is essentially what the Stenography Corps have done since the summer of 2012.
When Hector blocked the CVA it was end game for Rangers (1872).
Ranger were put to death in June 2012 and the media called it accurately at the time.
Before the axe fell you did not need to be a prophet to discern what liquidation would mean for Rangers Football Club.
When the basket of assets started life in the bottom tier the local media tied themselves up in knots in order to placate the Ibrox klanbase.
“Rangers have been demoted” and “the Ibrox club was sent down the leagues”.
It was, of course, weapons-grade pish.
Rangers were not relegated, Rangers were liquidated.
That is why many of their players decided to Do Walking Away.
When they exercised their rights under employment law some of The People didn’t take it too well.
Now Steve Davis joins the other Rangers players who walked away from the corpse of the old club and then returned to Ibrox to play for Sevco.
This basic legal fact shouldn’t be a problem for the local media and I’m sure they know the truth of the matter.
However, they mainly abide by high-Level rules.
For the avoidance of doubt, colluding with the powerful to disseminate a mutually convenient fiction is not journalism.
Indeed, it is the antithesis of serving the public interest.
That is why, I suspect, many in Planet Fitba have lost faith the local media during the Ibrox saga.
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wonderful analysis phil. for the avoidance of doubt, there is a title race happening. no amount of misty eyed jelly & ice-cream nostalgia will dilute this fact
jelly & ice-cream nostalgia
That Club statement was definitely NOT top shelf,it’s wording is as weak as week old dishwater.
C’mon Celtic🍀…grow a pair and tell them what you really think,for that ‘statement’ is pathetic.
‘Huttonesque’ it most certainly is not.
Sevco should now be known as The Judas Eleven. A club with neither principles or morals. Put that on your club crest and wear it with pride. HH
Looks like they are going by the old adage about …. ‘sounding like shite, smelling like shite, looking like shite …. ergo…
“Sounds like rangers men, smells like rangers men, looks like rangers men – must be rangers then!”
I’ve said in a post here recently that it looked like they were trying to recreate the ‘Rangers 2012’ line-up to try to scupper Celtic….
Well it didn’t work that season and it won’t work this season either …. if Celtic come undone it will be through their own self-neglect.
Although … well done for finally locating the clubs backbone and doing a bit of ‘statement action’ for ourselves this time!
As for their marquee signings… and Celtics lack of them…
I think that Defoe is just another past it ‘name’ signing designed to stir up the horde and pro-sevco media (remember Joey). He might come on and score the odd goal but is well past his peak. This is assuming also that he is firstly ‘up to speed’ which I very much doubt… and that he remains fit. I also suspect that this signing is due to the sale of ‘El Buffoonalo’ being a certainty this window.
Add to that the wages he will be drawing and it makes for a very big gamble on the rest of the season. But….
….. sometimes gambles pay out!
The genuinely worrying thing for me is not who they are signing (as I hope the mounting costs breaks them)…. but the fact that they ARE signing, while Celtic are just part of the transfer rumour mill , tiptoeing around with tentative miserly offers as usual – which inevitably alerts the attentions of bigger fish with bigger wallets.
Granted… the window is open only a few days .. but It feels to be shaping up very much like the last 2 already to me !
Sevco at least know their market and manage to go straight in and sign 3/4 players within days.
Celtic might be shopppng in a different market but they are not so big that they can play the ‘big boys do business at the close of the window ‘ game that we’ve heard before. We don’t have the financial clout for that – or a board that is prepared to exercise it if we did.
Just like the last 2 windows we saw sevco (and hearts, Hibs etc) make numerous well targeted signings while the Celtic fans waited and waited – and were assured all would come good.
“Big clubs do their business late in the window”
…..Only to miss out on genuine prospects and see the club resorting to desperate last minute signings like those of Mussonda and Compper.
Football is a NOW game…. and right NOW we are no better off than we were a few months ago. In fact with injuries and outgoing players we are considerably worse.
I’d like to be optimistic, but Celtics recent transfer activity does not fill me with hope especially since the January window is not the one where the best players are available – it tends to be the ‘wantaways’ , journeymen, ‘past-it’s’ and benchwarmers who can’t get a game elsewhere.
Would any Celtic fan be surprised if the transfer window quietly ticks away without any decent activity by our club – as potential signings are snatched from under our boards tight fingers?
Would any Celtic fan be surprised at the arrival of 2 defenders and a striker on 31st January?
Would any Celtic fan be surprised if we had never heard of any of them?
I really hope I’m wrong!
Then I’ll be surprised.
You’re thinking uncannily like myself. Although I don’t believe sevco have ANY deals over the line yet. Eddie Howe stated earlier today that nothing had been signed yet and would NOT be signed unless HE was convinced it was in both his AND Defoe’s best interests.
We will see what they have to say, don’t think it will be much.HH
I see Celtic have issued a statement http://www.celticfc.net/news/15556
Calling on the SFA to allow John Beaton to publicly explain why he sees no wrong in some Rankers players behaviour.
About fucking time
Aye and when they go into this meeting with Maxwell and Fleming, they should take a tape of the three incidents and very pointedly ask why exactly these incidents were NOT deemed to be worthy of disciplinary action. If they come out with “it’s the referee’s decision”, point out it’s not the referee who’s being asked, It’s them.