Since Beautiful Sunday at Hampden, I’ve developed an awful fascination for the Superscoreboard podcast. At first it was fascination and joy at the slobbering and suffering of those of a Sevco persuasion but lately it’s morphed into interest at the pundits themselves.
I listened as Gordon Daziel lost the plot earlier in the week as a Sevconut accused him of having an agenda against the club, and I am always amazed at the nonsense Derek Johnstone believes. He really is the sort of guy who would have bought London Bridge several times over.
But it’s Mark “Scoop” Guidi who really blows your mind.
Wednesday’s podcast is especially instructive in that he refuses, point blank, to discuss any aspect of the directorship crisis that has swept over Ibrox except to suggest that it might be something to do with what Sevco today describes as “restructuring” and which the rest of us would call “organising the deckchairs on the Titanic.” Guidi’s response to being asked if those resignations are linked to the Takeover Panel or to disagreements over the direction of the club are met with frank dismissal.
“I don’t like to comment on things I don’t know for sure,” he said at one point. “I don’t like to speculate when I don’t have all the facts.”
Well of course not. That’s shoddy journalism, isn’t it?
Except … he kind of does like to speculate, just not in any direction that casts the Ibrox operation in a negative light. But he has no problem whatsoever talking the worst nonsense going when he pushes this ludicrous “massive investment” garbage that is swirling around online.
In fact, he was positively wetting himself at one point talking about “Far East consortiums” and how they like “sexy names.” I’m moved to wonder why they aren’t buying Semen Padang instead; they play in Indonesia for God’s sake.
Guidi’s comments are not backed up by the slightest fact; indeed, he freely admits that he has no direct knowledge of this. He just believes it., like kids of a certain age believe in the tooth fairy. But he does not describe it in such terms. Instead he pushes it as a fact, as something that is going to happen, as something inevitable.
His faith in this is absolutely child-like. You could almost feel sorry for him if it wasn’t so contemptible. I feel sorry for regular listeners instead. I’m not one of them. I am just there for the LOL’s tonight … and he didn’t let me down.
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