I find that it is always a good idea to start the day with a hearty laugh.
So for that, I’m indebted to Mr Graeme McGarry, who works for the Newsquest titles in Glasgow.
Indeed, he is their Senior Sports Writer, no less.
His piece today appears to harbour the delusion that Ibrox clubs have, in the past, been subjected to “scrutiny” from the local media.
The featured image in this piece was my initial reaction on Twitter, and after reading the piece several times, I’m not inclined to change my view of it.
It gets better, Mr McGarry appears to believe that managers of either of the Rangers, including Mr Gerrard, have had to contend with “difficult questions” in pressers from the local media.
Full disclosure, morning coffee spluttered at that one.
If you really must, you can read it all here.
Probably the main reason for the accidental success of this site over the last decade was the abject failure of the sports desks in Glasgow to discharge their Fourth Estate duties apropos various Ibrox regimes.
For example, I remember speaking to a leading member of the Glasgow press pack at the media centre in the AVIVA Stadium in Dublin around ten years ago.
He admitted that had he been in possession of the “Dallas email”, then he wouldn’t have done anything with it.
I think that it is telling that my scoop that did for the head of refereeing at the SFA was acknowledged in the Guardian, but mo shloinne was verboten in Fair Caledonia.
The thing is, dear reader, it should not be on a journalist in another country to be doing this stuff on Scottish football.
Yeah, in another country…
I’ll just leave that here.
McGarry mentions the rise of “Fan Media” without a hint of self-awareness.
When it comes to Ibrox, that is what the Glasgow sports desks have been for generations!
You just have to laugh…
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For all those shares purchased in the last 3 yrs, are the ” investors” expecting a return?
Won t be in dividends or rise in share price. And a world class breakfast won t cut it. Is there a return promised via a knuckle shuffle perhaps via administration or the L word?
JDT
I was gonna start with the truth is a stranger to most of the scottish media hacks but tbh it’s not. It’s total fabrication clining onto the demographic that keeps them in a job.
You can’t question these guys and they don’t have to verify anything so they can come up with any narrative to meet an endpoint.
Must be a sh!tty job though being forced to put this nonsense out for a living, I’d rather stack shelves in a supermarket than be forced to try to deceive for a living.
Great piece Phil.
Off topic, I haven’t had the Clyde SSB on for over a year, I got severely tempted midweek, when Sevco got pumped.
I yielded to temptation, tuned in and I was listening to various moon howlers, when I started to compute the responses from the panel, in particular a guy called Andy!
I thought Andy who? It’s not Walker, I’d know his squeak anywhere, then it became apparent,
OMG Halliday !!!
Well , suffice to say it’ll be another year or two before I tune in again, fan media right enough.
Regardless of which team you support,
if you are reasonably curious / informed, then you will have known for the last 10 years at least,
as a fact,
that the Scottish MSM football coverage is just pitiful.
Are they deid yet?
Scottish Footballs answer to the double entendre.
You beat me too it on Twitter Phil, have you ever read such unadulterated nonsense. Graeme McGarry Chief Sports Writer and the Lord wept. This guy’s a moron but there’s no difference with about 95% of sports ‘journalists’ in Scotland as you so often point out in your pieces.
Trying to insult our intelligence with this horseshit, there’s no backbone or scruples within our smsm, they’ve lapped up the excrement coming out of Ipox for years like a man going to the gallows not knowing he’s the guy who’s being hung. I hope they get their comeuppance if the second entity of this club go to the wall.
I understand you’ve never said that this time but there seems to be an inevitability about it in my humble opinion. You can’t sustain the losses they’ve incurred year on year, soft loans share issues or not, and still expect to survive. Keep up the good work mate and God bless your penmanship.
Hilarious. The level of self deception is off the charts. Not to worry, one or both of them – Newsquest or Sevco going down the tubes – who’s first? They don’t know because their world view is skewed so far off kilter, in part because one encourages the other to maintain a shared false narrative.
£25k for media access, scrapping with the league over cinch and bemoaning the sky deal, hold unfurling back until Celtic arrive. That’s the last fortnight. If a journo can’t get a story out of that then we should truly despair for the scribes.
Also; Is there anybody that they like?
How true, Phil, especially your final comments. Remember the ‘scrutiny’ in the questioning of Sir Walter when they crashed out of the Champions League one year, (well they crashed out EVERY year but one year in particular. All you could hear were mumblings of “Walter” but not one serious question. They reminded me of The Torys on Spitting Image when Thatcher (spit) was ranting. All wee frightened boys.
It looks like Deludamol addiction is on the rise in Scotland, poor ignoramuses don’t know what has hit them until it’s too late…
There are lies, damned lies and Rangers propaganda.
That article is a perfect example of why no-one trusts the MSM any longer. It’s obviously a lie. The author knows it’s a lie. The reader knows it’s a lie. Yet it’s presented as truth. This erosion of objectivity is a fundamental feature of the “Death of Truth” which leads to Trump, Johnson and Bolsonaro. https://books.google.co.uk/books/about/The_Death_of_Truth.html?id=gXBbDwAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=kp_read_button&hl=en&newbks=1&newbks_redir=1&redir_esc=y
Even bfkb is having a go in his rag today and that’s saying something,money for questions mmmm
Sales in free fall, increasingly desperate.
Helicopter on the roof soon.