The Daily Record is tonight (as ever) the laughing stock of Celtic cyberspace after publishing a fans group’s jokey story as actual news.
The rib-tickling tale of how the Doha Celtic Supporters Club was forced to change its plans for a marathon journey from Doha, Qatar to the Azerbaijani capital Baku after the Iraqi government banned them from the country for stopping for a pee the last time they were there found its way onto The Daily Record website earlier, doubtless posed as an example of how naughty our people are.
The story started with a jokey post on the Doha CSC Facebook page, which read;
“Bus to Qarabag game sorted.
Just up the road. Leaving from the usual spots Tuesday 4th August, pickups at Al Waab Vaults 11.23, Salwa Road Ladbrokes 11.53, Burnbank 12.04. Non members welcome.
Bring cans. Plenty of cans. #Cans”
The notion was quite patently hilarious and cannot remotely be anything other than a joke, as would have been obvious to anyone with half a fraction of intelligence.
Yet we know by now that doesn’t apply to The Record, which spent many years employing the likes of Hugh Keevins and Jim Traynor.
The bus convener then tweeted an “update” on their Twitter feed, telling interested parties that the bus could no longer pass through Iraq because of a previous incident where, during a bus journey back from the Shakhter Karagandy game some years ago, members were caught urinating in public.
“We ar banned from Iraq due to pee stop incident on way back from Karagandy game. Got to avoid now” said the tweet.
It was preceded by tweets such as; “@stengo7 @TheMireCSC2002 Excellent. Leave from Doha Ladbrokes the day before” and “@cochcfc you joining us? Cans essential for the Iran section, things could get difficult ..”
The Daily Record’s intrepid reporters missed the obvious jokes.
They saw a chance for a quick “scoop” and grabbed it.
Tonight the joke is on them, and although they moved quickly to pull the article from their website it can still be found as a cached story and, of course, there are numerous screengrabs doing the rounds of the story itself and their tweet about it.
This isn’t the first time someone has been caught cold by the Celtic fans; there was the time a fans forum invented a Rangers youth player and got the press to bum him up, and there was the fan who convinced Fernando Sandaza that he was an agent for a foriegn club and taped a very sensitive conversation … but this may well be amongst the most hilarious examples of our lazy media falling hook, line and sinker for something that could have come right out of Mad Magazine.
The Doha Celtic Supporters club (and most of the people on Facebook and Twitter) are having a good old laugh tonight at “Scotland’s Favourite Newspaper”, which in the opinion of this writer ought to stick to its principal task for the week of trying to get Hibs to sell Scott Allen to Sevco.
They sure as Hell can’t do the news.
Doha Bhoys, Celtic cyberspace salutes you!
superb,
Typical lazy laptop loyal…… fucking idiot zombies HH
couldn’t happen to nicer paper, Karma
Even in a fake, piss-take story (that they treated as factual) they still had to add in ‘rowdy fans’.
They just can’t help stop themselves.
They also seem staunchly unwilling to give our stadium its official title; namely Celtic Park.
It’s the little things and little ways that they unfailingly use to denigrate Celtic at all times.
Anyway, more egg on their face than Kirk Bigotfoot at a joint microwave and egg convention!
Bunch of fannys
Good to see the daily Hun given the the big wind up ,hail hail
Get in! Fuck the Daily Record!
Just posted this on Daily Record FB page lol. Your paper is a joke….. did you hear about the Celtic fan barred from a public toilet for having the audacity of doing a no2. 1 regular public toilet pee-er said “it was unbelievable to actually hear the repeated plops” another daily regular said “there i was shaking myself dry when splash, splash, splash and an aaaah was to be heard” couldnt believe my ears normally we have sevconians in talking crap but for a Celtic fan to actually doing 1 it was incredulous. the attendant thought to have once played with Rangers before their demise in 2012 had no option but to barr the fan indefinately……..
Got the gist of this scoop earlier here in Ororu, I smelled a rat and thought the rag was up to its usual anti-Celtic story before a big game. Good on the Bhoys & Ghirls who turned them over, thoroughly deserved.HH
Exposed again as a bunch of biased fa**ies!
Are the DR “journo’s” sooo think that they never twigged that alcohol is banned in most (if not all) Arab countries?… Don’t even attempt to answer that!!
The timing’s all wrong, but this is a brilliant April Fool’s joke!!
Once again , this rag shows up the standard of their reporters??Ha ha! Stopped buying it years ago, buy the Dandy, stories are more realistic.
any one remember the celtic fan who caused a commotion with that rag the record, many years ago pretending to be seastian rosental. that was unsurpassed
That so-called daily..is anti-CELTIC and will always be that way.HAIL HAIL THE CELTIC.
Quality!
WELL DONE AND WELL GOOD !
is it any wonder no decent supporter in scotland buys that rag outside the huns 🙂 lol hh
😉 Belter pmsl ……HH
Brilliant lads , shows them up for the amateur s they are.HH
This rag has been churning out crap for years about Celtic fans and the club, would like to see the club ban them being anywhere near Celtic park.
investigative reporting at it’s best by loyal lodge D.R. 1690 hahahaha HH