There has to be another part of the Fitba Multiverse where people in the Blue Room can sign a contract without later being in front of a judge explaining themselves.
If readers recall, Sevco trumpeted a great victory over Big Mike and Sports Direct in 2017.
The local media were at their succulent worst as they gushed that convicted criminal David Cunningham King had won out over the sportswear company.
Your humble correspondent, ever the contrarian, was instead faithful to the facts.
The 2017 deal was indeed a considerable triumph, but not for Sevco.
This site is fully searchable, and the integrity of my reporting can be seen.
Dear reader, you may very well ask why it takes a member of the National Union of Journalists operating in another country to detail what is happening at Ibrox accurately.
I would much prefer to be working on my next novel, the sequel to Native Shore.
Now today, the Daily Radar breathlessly reports yet another heroic victory of the mighty Sevco.
Actually, the reality is probably more prosaic.
My information is that there was a pre-court meeting in front of a judge last week.
The situation wasn’t looking good for the Glasgow football club.
The competition organisers were on solid ground.
They told the judge that TRFC had signed a legally binding contract and then decided To Do Walking Away.
Because of this, the Australian Company had to find a replacement club at short notice.
Consequently, they apparently had to pay a premium to get Everton to participate in the Sydney Super Cup.
In a hilarious bit of sophistry, the Daily Radar reports that :
“…Ibrox chiefs struck a new lucrative agreement…”
Lucrative for whom?
Just like the putative victory over Big Mike and Sports Direct, it is necessary to ignore the breathless pish from the Stenography Cops and drill down into the detail.
Could it be that the Ibrox club are, in effect, going to be working off the debt to the Australian company over the next three years?
Could it?
Let’s game this out:
Sevco are bang to rights on this contract. They’re facing a bill for damages plus legal costs in excess of, say, £6m.
They tell the other side that they can’t pay it but are willing to enter into a “victory” à la the one in 2017.
Apart from normal expenses, are Sevco, in a sense, indentured Down Under for three years?
Sound plausible?
I think so.
Now, that’s a great story for someone on one of the sports desks in Glasgow to go after.
Of course, they would have to want to do journalism, hold power to account, public interest, etc.
Meanwhile, Sevco’s tragically credulous klanbase continues to imbibe the dignified Kool-Aid.
Well, it’s either that or agua del inodoro.
Pobrecitos.
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Yep Pablo – The less of them buying their crap the better for sure !
Tragically I see Celtic supporters dressed in our colours purchasing these rags on a weekly basis and of course while what they choose to spend their cash on is indeed their prerogative, I find them to be shall I say, strange Hoops fans financially supporting these rancid organisations…
There are plenty good Celtic minded blogs out there reporting what lies they publish about Celtic on a daily basis and that lies is always mirrored by positive lies about Sevco just as it was about Rangers the club that died in 2012 –
Any time that I happen to stumble upon a Celtic fan in our colours buying one of these utter rags, I just cannot help myself from challenging them as to what on earth they’re doing supporting them financially… Answers have ranged from “Ach it’s something to pass the time reading” to “actually you’ve got a good point there buddy” so I suppose that if I can just get a few to reconsider then it’ll have been worth it…
Their figures (especially the rancid Record) apper be spinning in a serial downward trajectory thankfully and it does look as if they will thankfully die off eventually –
Is it harsh to wish unemployment on some wee lassie earning a wage at The Daily Record who might lose her car and her house if they go bust… Well yes indeed, but then if she’s working at a rag like The Daily Record then I’m afraid the end justifies the means and it certainly cannot come a day too soon for this Hoops supporter !
Like Pablo – My message to EVERY Celtic fan is – PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THE SCOTTISH MAINSTREAM MEDIA !!!
The gullibillies on various Facebook sites seem to think this is good business and will guarantee future close season revenue. Bless.
Is this more FLEG [SPORT]? Will there be new world class wheelie bins as part of the ‘deal’?
Anyone have names of these alleged journalists.
Shaken hands and put it behind them….
In other news, Oxford university have removed the word gullible from their dictionary
Have they???
Ha!
Craig Whyte still casts a shadow in the Blue Room then?
But, instead of selling off future Season Ticket revenues,
the current Blue Room masterminds have sold off their future pre-season
& winter break tour revenues.
…and you just – absolutely, unequivocally – know that this is NOT going to run smoothly
for either TEG… or for their Ibrox plaything.
Brilliant! 🙂
I always feel that the Celtic board should speak to the editors and owners of these failing newspapers and explain to them that their so called sports journalists are alienating half of their potential readership via their biased regurgitation of Sevco press releases. It’s also actually damaging in a democratic society for the press to be so biased on a daily basis.
The less of us buying their crap the sooner they’ll be out of business !
We shouldn’t be their potential readership.
We should also avoid Clyde phone ins too with their TRFC cheerleaders, some of whom are on stage speakers at Fascist sash bashes.
It’s always jam tomorrow with that sevconian lot. HP is their MO. Although this season it’s mostly loans and freebies.
I saw the article your referring to earlier, saw what spin they were attempting to use, well it’ll work on their uber staunch fans. That’s because they ‘want to believe’ it will work to their advantage. Alas, the rest us can see right through it, ah bless!