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Scottish Media Tries To Silence Fans As Clamour For Inquiry Grows

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Scotland’s “journalistic class” has come together tonight in an effort to silence the many, many supporters, of all clubs, who want to see the game cleaned up.

The enormity of the crisis facing Scottish football at the moment can’t be underestimated.

That it all emanates from one place – Ibrox – has allowed the press to turn this into a “Celtic – Rangers” issue, but fans of clubs across the country are furious, not only about the EBT use but about the greater scandals that have engulfed us since.

Those scandals were allowed to fester by a media that ceased caring years ago.

Tonight, on Clyde, they opened the show by saying they weren’t taking calls on the subject of the tax case.

So, “all about opinions” is no longer the mantra of a show that now allows only those “opinions” with which its panel agrees, and discussions which it can easily control.

This one has escaped the lab.

This one is “out there” and has considerable weight behind it.

That they think we should “move on” has already been made clear.

Now, when we, the fans, make it clear that’s not on they’re trying to move on for us.

They have no right to do it.

Over on Radio Scotland, they are in lock step on the issue that “Rangers have suffered enough”, now that one of the more courageous voices on the show, that of Jim Spence, is no longer being heard on the airwaves.

Amongst those making excuses is notorious Sevco flatterer Richard Wilson, who’s long since passed the point of even pretending to be impartial, and Graham Spiers.

I was once a huge admirer of Spiers. He was almost alone, for years, in calling out Rangers on the sectarian singing of their supporters.

He was once a voice of reason and intelligence on SFA reform and the need for strong leadership in our sport.

All that is over with.

The Romans had a saying for this; corruptio optimi pessima.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

Earlier this evening he published an astonishing, and offensive, piece which decried the “poisonous atmosphere” surrounding Scottish football at the moment.

The article pointed the finger for all the ills of our game at one group; the supporters.

In short, Graham Spiers blames us for the disgraceful state our national sport is in.

Nothing ought to make us angrier.

If the atmosphere is poisonous that’s because the media has refused to take its role seriously and help us fix the game.

Everything rotten has been stuck in a cupboard or slipped under the bed or swept under the carpet or stashed in a corner.

And as a consequence, the reek is overpowering.

This is a new low for the hacks, and a place I never expected someone like Spiers to go.

Having not convinced us to sit down and shut up, the new “angle” here is to try and convince us that the toxic smell from these scandals is a bigger problem than the scandals themselves. His solution is to hold our noses and ignore the smell.

Ours is to scoop it up, and throw the rancid lot of it in the bin.

It’s a good thing these people no longer set the agenda isn’t it?

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  • Rob Govig says:

    Absolutely agree with every word – you begin to feel you’re living in a one party state where all dissent will be silenced. We cannot let this go or the game is dead.
    A Hearts fan (sorry!).

  • Thai Tim says:

    Excellent article of which I fully endorse and also great accurate sensible follow up posts. This is an opportunity to clean up the corruption and incompetence of Scottish football.

  • Gerry says:

    I am generally quite a mild mannered person but all of this cheating cannot go unpunished. If there is an appetite among all clubs supporters to hold a lawful public demonstration of disgust and demand for proper retribution at or near Hampden Park I would definitely be an attendee.

    • Gerry Graham says:

      The best thing to do if the clubs won’t do it is boycott every game..Just don’t go to the matches then when every club sees what’s happening they must act when the see the actions of the fans.. Do not meet at Hampden because there will be carnage

  • Eric says:

    Scottish media Mafia , it’s up to every clubs fans to act over this writing to papers ain’t gonna work or talkback

  • bill boyd says:

    Pity we cant persuade the BUNNET to take these cretins to task .Anyone got his ear !

  • Domhnall says:

    I’ll confess up front
    I’m a Rangers fan.
    My view – if Messers Struth, Waddell et al and Rangers greats of a by gone era are looking down they will do so with a degree of sadness.
    Why – I know it used to wrankle with other clubs but I am firm believer that Rangers were a club with DIGNITY. That club that I loved and supported since I was wee passed away when we walked away from a massive pile of debt, leaving individuals, sole traders, Ltd Companies all saddled with bad debt from us. if we were to honour these debts and yes even if it had to be paid to Hector then possibly we could hold our heads high once again but that aint going to happen.
    if we were to volunteer to give up these trophies then again maybe we could regain some credibility but that aint going to happen either.
    But the truth is the current Rangers are a new club, I could never re discover the emotional attachment for them that I felt for the teams with John Greig, Tam Forsythe, Sandy Jardine – players of my youth.
    We paid the penalty for chasing dreams that we all share.
    The only reason the powers that be are happy to leave the trophies where they are is commercially – they need to create the illusion all is back to where it started – Celtic Rangers – bringing in the sponsors.
    I know we were a team you all loved to loathe but at least we were genuine.

  • Ben10 says:

    May I ask Why you are listening to these idiots or reading their papers, you can find everything you need to know HERE.

  • paul devlin says:

    I for one am not surprised. Two things if they want to keep the history then pay the debt and take the punishment. If they are newco they have no history. Also they cheated on a monumental scale and this should be making headlines all over the world. It is up there with match fixing and drug taking. I was if you remember called financial doping. I want every aspect of that club scrutinised and for every skeleton to be revealed. No fans cheated and no other club used this scheme, Murray even kept using it when he knew it was illegal

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