Predictions, allegations and double counting

Football fans making wildly optimistic predictions at the start of a campaign is part of the beautiful game.

It would be foolish to take them too seriously.

This one DID make me smile at the time.

Celtic’s manager reminded the hacks that no one won the title in September and that there was a long way to go.

The Hoops went top of the pile after thrashing Sevco at Parkhead the following  February.

Then it was possible to discern where the title might be heading.

That said, it was still a long way to go and Ange wasn’t for letting up.

Poor Mr Edgar had finally to allow reality in.

His prediction last September should just be seen as part of the footie fun.

No biggie.

However, after the penalty drama in Seville, this is definitely chortling material.

Please file under “beyond parody”.

As a writer, I know that putting this type of thing in a novel wouldn’t survive the first edit!

I’m glad Mr  Dixon is now recovering after he imbibed at the Ramón Sánchez-Pizjuán Stadium.

There was obviously an issue with the provision of drinking water on the night.

It is quite another matter to allege some dark motive by the people running the venue.

I must say that the narrative emerging from the Watergate in Seville is pure klanAnon.

Oh dear, that’s quite an allegation to make.

Mr Edgar, a one time defender of the Famine Song, has now experienced oppressive thirst in España.

For the avoidance of doubt, even at the malevolent height of the British Empire, they couldn’t engineer a drought here in Ireland!

As regular readers will know it is the view of your humble correspondent that the local media on Planet Fitba is not part of a functioning Fourth Estate.

Rather than hold power to account they see their role as churning out a steady stream of good news to soothe their dignified demographic.

That is especially true at season ticket renewal time.

Consequently, only good news apropos matters Ibrox is allowed from the usual succulent suspects.

Of course, anyone who is faithful to the facts can be dangerous to this printed pishful thinking.

Double counting?

Awkward…

I don’t expect the Stenography Corps to be across multivariant causality as that is above their cognitive paygrade.

However, double counting?

Dear oh dear.

What a real journalist on Planet Fitba should be doing right now is observing the public data.

Will Giovanni van Bronckhorst be given the funds to re-build his squad?

Will there be a net spend on players?

A lot of that depends on what was left of the European run after Big Mike was weighed in.

Yes dear reader we still have to Follow Follow the money at Sevco.