I’m told that there was a free and frank exchange of views within the Sevco firmament at the weekend.
Apparently, DUPman had been dispatched to reprimand Mr Let’s Go to remind the Liverpool legend that he had to stick to the script when speaking to the media.
I think that it is fair to say that the collective mood in the Blue Room was less than Zen-like when they saw what their manager had to say about the putative lack of transfer activity.
Sevco’s in-house PR guru might have expected a somewhat contrite response when he administered the officially authorised ticking off.
However, my information is that the fluent Ulsturr Scatch speaker was instead taken aback when he encountered the unfiltered offering of Scouse vernacular in reply.
Something along the lines of he should go away in an industrial sense along with the white horse he rode in on.
Something like that…
Of course, if there were a functioning Fourth estate on Planet Fitba, then this would already be a back page story.
I just heard this from an impeccable source who was safe enough to contact me today.
I rather suspect that the chaps on the sports desks knew about this spat within hours of it happening.
If they wanted to stand the story up, there were plenty of witnesses to the contretemps.
Could it be that the chaps in the Blue Room are now thinking about life after Stevie?
It was an expensive gamble to back him to stop the Ten, and it was, of course, a huge success.
It gave their klanbase the title they craved and a valuable excuse for their performance art in George Square.
On the subject of the Genocide Choir, any competent PR person would have used the Kamara in Prague story to steer the narrative away from the innate racism at Ibrox.
Instead, someone thought it a good idea to have a touching presentation to the Union Bears chaps at Ibrox this weekend.
Once more, it is an own goal that real journalists should have been all over.
Fortunately for the Sevco High Command, the Stenography Corps know the rules.
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Rumours of 31.5 million loss at the racist arena for the past year doing the rounds
Ha! Could this be their PR expert’s idea of managing bad news?
Like RBS did with it’s first post-financial crash loss: circulate a deliberately inflated loss figure, so that when it is officially confirmed – at a lower amount – “… the loss is ONLY X billions.”
Mibbess not a 31.5 million loss for RIFC, but mibbees “ONLY” a c.20 to c.25M million loss? 🙂
The guy in question has since passed away and was a great character. He was right at the top of a quality newspaper at the time and had often regaled us with stories about how his perceived religion had held him back on the way up to this elevated post. Therefore I believed I was safe in stating that I felt “The Farry” case was the worst corruption in sport I had seen, simply because this was not a competitor taking performance enhancing drugs or a coach faking qualifications but the actual chief executive of a football authority with all the supposed dignity of that office. Farry was dismissed for gross misconduct with, I believe, a “£200,000 pay off. Open goal I thought, but I was very gently and politely informed that the latter was a friend of the former and a great person. I think I grew up that day as far as the media was concerned and realised that even if we get people inside the tent, like Lennon now, they still have to micturate on the rest of us outside.
Why do the Scottish media still follow the Edmiston Street code of conduct?
The bbc are still on (Union) prescribed leave from AyeBroke(s) and the majority of print titles clinging to existence have the hump over the 25k ‘cash for carefully selected and approved questions for you to ask’ media entry fee.
Is it purely due to the leanings of those at editorial level (or above) at these outlets?
You’d think that silence …( ie no news ) was equal to bad news, so consequently – in these difficult times for newspapers – why not go to town on the negative stories ? What’s in it for them to stay on script ?
To recap their recent exploits on the pitch..
An offside goal got them a point against Motherwell…A missed penalty by Dundee and a controversial “goalkeeping yellow card” decision…got them 3 points…and finally …Hibs in total control…leading in the game…and once again a rush of blood from one of their players makes it easy for any bent ref. to produce a red card…and after that it was game over for Hibs.
And as my Granny used to say…” if ye canny be good…be lucky.”
But I also saw a clip on the telly where I happened to notice that Mr. Gerrard was rather “brusque” with Mr. Goldson at the final whistle after their fluky result against Hibs.
He had gone onto the pitch to “congratulate ” his players…but Mr.Goldson appeared to get short shrift from the Manager by virtue of a token hand slap…with no eye to eye contact… and I think it surprised the big CB.
No such short shrift for the Sevco support however…because he then charged around the pitch with a demented look on his face…and played the victim card for all it was worth…with fist pumps and various other pathetic gestures.
There is no doubt he is a man under severe pressure…and that’s when they’re top of the league.
Interesting times ahead.
Slippy’s excuses are being made so that he can do walking away. HH
I understand that a vacancy has arisen in the Watford area…..