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In Hyping Up The Brown-Shinnie Thing, The Daily Record Is Trying To Make Trouble For Both.

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Last night, The Daily Record released a quite ridiculous piece on Graeme Shinnie which tried its best to get a story about impending war between the two players out of an interview that was designed to do explicitly the opposite thing.

I read what Shinnie actually said, and he went out of his way to defuse a situation The Record is trying desperately to blow up. I know that rag is losing readers and money at a rapid rate, but this is desperate even for them. This is not journalism.

This is shit-stirring with a big ladle. Fortunately, it doesn’t even require reading between the lines to realise that.

Shinnie made a highly publicised comment after the match between the two clubs which brought the league season to an end; “What goes around comes around.” In the interview he expressly apologised for the way that came across, having never intended it to sound the way it did. It was a comment made in the spur of the moment, in relation to a game where tackles were flying in left, right and centre. He was not being provocative.

I believe him. He could have had a dig at Scott Brown and kept the matter running through the summer, but he sought to defuse the situation. He spoke of his respect for our captain. He made it clear that there was no ill-will.

Yet The Record chose to write a truly atrocious headline, which sought to give the impression that Shinnie was taking a shot at Scott. He was doing nothing of the sort. This is typical, lamentable, gutter journalism from that rag.

It is good to see that players have professional respect for each other. It is good to read that things that happen on the pitch don’t adversely affect their relationships with each other. We forget that these guys are combatants for 90 minutes but are more than capable of being friends away from the pitch. The Sevco fan’s flare-up with the players who went on holiday with Scott Allan shows them at their worst for not realising this simple truth.

The Record is at it with this nonsense, but the article was forced to print what Shinnie actually said rather than what they wanted people to think he did. That newspaper is a disgrace. Their credibility was shot a long time ago. They seem to have no desire to try and win any of it back.

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