Keith Jackson wants to know if we should take Ronny Deila seriously.
The idea makes me laugh.
Ronny Deila is an accomplished man, a manager with a league title and a cup to his name from his time in Norway, and he won both at an unfancied club.
He has probably forgotten more about football than Jackson will ever know.
His Celtic team is top of the league, he’s in one cup final already and still in the Scottish Cup. He has led his team through a tough Europa League group and now faces Italian cracks Inter Milan.
Ronny Deila is doing well.
Still, Jackson wants to know if he’s the real thing.
Like I said, I find this amusing. I would find it amusing if it had come from a semi-credible journalist.
From a discredited hack, it’s just embarrassing.
I said in my last piece for On Fields of Green that I fully understand why Sevco banned Jackson’s rag. This newspaper is shamelessly partisan from front page to back, and firmly “establishment”. It’s also wholly untrustworthy, and most people realise this.
Its editorial policy, vis-à-vis Scottish football, is to deny reality, to support the Survival Myth and push the Victim Myth, and to campaign for the return of the Real Rangers Men.
As such, the poor sods on the current board don’t stand a chance. Even when they get stuff right, they get pilloried.
Jackson is one of the premier cheerleaders for the King group … and he has never written as much as a single critical word about them, although the South African is a convicted crook and one other member of his gang, Paul Murray, is an ineffectual joker who sat on two Rangers boards which drove the club to the wall.
Has Jackson asked if any of these people should be taken seriously?
Of course he hasn’t.
When Ally McCoist was building his expensive squad of flops, when he was presiding over cup defeats and struggling in the Championship, did Jackson write critically?
Of course not.
McCoist’s “accomplishments” at Ibrox amount to winning two lower league titles with a spending ratio close to 20/1.
He proved incapable even of winning the Challenge Cup, the one for the clubs outside the top flight. Three efforts at it, three failures.
Did Jackson ever once ask if perhaps McCoist wasn’t up to the job? If he should be taken seriously?
No, he absolutely didn’t.
So why is Ronny Deila being treated differently?
Can you guess? I can.
You have to love Jackson and his buddies at The Record, like Gary Ralston, who’s gleeful article about how he managed to get into Ibrox on the first night of his paper being banned was one of the most self-indulgent pieces of fluff masquerading as a news story I’ve ever read.
They’ve lost all sight of how they are viewed by the vast, vast majority of football fans.
The real question is, how can they take themselves so seriously?
Deep down these people know they’re not the real thing, that they’re not proper journalists and instead are little more than stenographers.
Let’s face it, none of them would get a job writing real stories, even sports ones.
I might not like Ewan Murray, but he’s a cut above these guys, and I might not agree with everything Graham Spiers writes, but you can’t listen to him on the radio surrounded by witless individuals like these and not know he’s slumming it.
Yes, Judge and Jury Jackson … it makes me grin from ear to ear.
I am sure that Ronny Deila has greater concerns than whether this man takes him seriously.
What was it Gordon Strachan once said, when asked about Agustin Delgado?
“I’ve got more important things to think about. I’ve got a yogurt to finish … the expiry date is today.”
Yeah, that just about sums it up.
just do what every decent celtic fan is doing and boycott the rag if nobody buys the rag these clowns wont have a job to write such shite
Another good article James I can only add my 2 words for what it’s worth hear hear.
100% correct. I despise the Daily RANGer and moreso from the”article”they were allowed to print,stating that,it was Celtic fans who attacked James Martin after the Celtic v Sevco game,Police Scotland should have publicly held them accountable for inciting sectarian/anti-Catholic/Celtic feelings after the game,though in saying that,the Police and the Masonic knuckledraggers are one and the same which forms a lovely trio with the Ludge,sorry,I mean the SSfa presiding over all things RANGers.
A fine truthful piece again,James.
The hurt that Ronny has won over the fans,and is doing well, is eating away at the laptop loyal.
All Ralston needed,was a sash,to go with his Orange waistcoat and tie combo.They are a sad lot.
I don’t buy their rags,or listen to them on air.Their agendas,are always the same,pro Sevco and anti Celtic.
I hope,the Ronny Roar,gets louder and louder,as we come to the business end of the season.If it does,then Jackson and his like,will be suffering,as Ronny proves he is the real deal,and has trophies to show off.
The relationship between Ronnie,his players and the fans is incredible.He is such a gentleman and very approachable wich adds to his persona.He has brought more excitement to our team,home and away and I have no doubt he will deliver Trophies to our cause.As for the Stenographers they don’t bother him with their shite regarding Celtic.On a personal note,I stopped buying the rags three years ago,and get all my news from Celtic websites were honest reporting is the norm.Hail Hail.
Jackson forgets that while he forlornly tries to perpetuate the sevco myths for the sake of a few hundred thousand ‘old’ rangers fans- that in any kind of journalistic circles the stock of Glasgow sports media is at an absolutely desperate lowpoint, chiefly due to the actions of his tabloid. Journalism should be a career for people of high integrity- reporting the truth (and being believed), requires men and women whose credibility is beyond question.
When the Daily Record finally capitulates to lack of sales and pushes towards an online version only- where does Keith see his future? Surely it can’t be as a journalist who expects or hopes to be taken seriously outside the blue half of Glasgow? Editors outwith these borders- ones with the aforementioned integrity, might look for a bit more on his CV than only being proficient with a blue crayon. My guess is that he’d be unemployable as any sort of scribe and would most likely just drop off the radar.
Heavens above are you guys paranoid or what? No wonder Scottish football roared with laughter the day you lost the league at Motherwell. “They dinae like us; They’re all out to get us; They’re anti Catholic………”
As a Catholic myself that just happens to support Hibs alongside my Protestant pals your constant whinging is sickening. It’s bad enough listening to Rangers moaning that everyone’s out to get them but you lot as well???? Grow up and give us all peace. My God if we had a team half as good as yours we’d be delirious…………..
Jackson = Bell end with zero cred
Ok he’s a good manger if he beats inter Milan on Thursday he will go down in celtic histroy
Hibby you are mental.Very seriously deluded,and not in touch with reality.I would seek help.
Oh,and by the way,this is a Celtic blog.
Pity your small club mentality,will always prevail !