When two sides are briefing against each other, that is good news for any journalist.
However, that is not the view of the intrepid chaps in the Stenography Corps.
Dear reader, if there were a functioning Fourth Estate on Planet Fitba, then you would not have to rely on this site.
However, the old rules remain extant:
Control the home dressing room at Ibrox, and you effectively control the local media.
Ironically, the exception to that unwritten ordinance was when Mr King was agitating to oust Ashley’s people in early 2015.
Then the sports desks were onside with the…ahem…rebels.
They understood that if King took over, then the days of succulent lamb would return.
A very well placed source told me today that 24 hours after Mr Stewart Robertson had been sent out to calm the klan Mr King had his people putting out a counter-narrative.
One thing that was being briefed was that if HE were still in the Blue Room, then Mr Gerrard would still be in the home dugout at Ibrox.
The inference was that the current regime had grasped the compensation from Villa with indecent haste.
What IS undoubtedly true is that team Gio costs the club a fraction of the Gerrard regime.
Mr King is shaping up to become an activist shareholder.
That can be a real problem for any boardroom.
He voted against the re-appointment of Park Junior, although he was unsuccessful in his bid to alter the voting numbers on the board.
Another part of the briefing was that the club would indeed have to sell players during the January window.
Of course, there must be credible offers before any sales can go ahead in the next transfer window.
The current chaps in the Blue Room are in something of a quandary.
If they brief against Mr King, they are in danger of damaging their own backstory from the Off License Putsch.
These are strange days when I have to report that Mr David Cunningham King is being entirely truthful about business matters.,
Spare a thought for the Ibrox klanbase.
They are currently being fed two mutually exclusive narratives from equally staunch sources.
I fear that they do not possess the collective cognitive bandwidth to cope with that workload.
The poor dears…
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Need to get to January intact. Hail Hail
King being truthful?! A curious sideshow.
January could be the main event.
All CFC has to do is buy a couple of decent signings and maybe bring in a couple of high quality loans.
…then watch the blue horde implode as nobody comes to Ibrox – and nobody leaves?
🙂
It’s most unusual to say the least that Madden is reported to have been pulled up for not calling Kyogo offside the other night.
Firstly it’s the job of the linesman to raise the flag for an offside and secondly Madden was doing his utmost to upset Celtic players and fans with a dozen plus wrong or non calls, all of which favoured the opposition.
Of course it’s the Kyogo decision that’s getting the attention of our journos, no surprise there, whilst Madden’s overall crap performance passes without a mention in the media.
How can that be?
Just witnessed on Sportscene the tackle by the aptly named Butcher on Turnbull.
If that wasn’t a straight red then I don’t know what is.
Goes over the ball and plants his boot firmly on the Celtic player’s leg. Potential leg break any day of the week.
I take it that the same official who gave brother Madden a dressing down for allowing Kyogo’s goal on Thursday to stand will be having a word with Robertson……. oh hang on, maybe not!
Why are the media discussing lower valuations now for the newco players They realise how desperate the Klub are for cash. Despite the nothing to see here cry from the Robertson sap
Today did we expect C. Adam to do anything against his Klub
Phil, if Mr King was repaid his loan, was it not a condition of the loan from the Scottish Government that its @£3m loan also had to be repaid at the same time?
No, all 11 of the 12 Clubs who took the loan, Celtic being the 1 club who didn’t take a loan from Holyrood, they all have the same repayments….NO interest and i think it is a crazy time period, like 10 years or more its to be paid back by.
Sympathy? Aye OK!