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Fergus Was The Last Great Man Of Vision At Celtic. He Would Never Have Allowed This.

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The Scottish Press Sent “Investigators” To Find Dirt On Fergus.

The first incredible revelation from the book is that our media was out to get Fergus from the first. No real surprise, right?

But actually, they went much further than you might at first believe.

In fact, Stephen recounts that our mainstream press actually engaged the services of the muckrakers to dig about in Fergus’ business and personal life.

And you know something else? They didn’t even wait until he was running Celtic. They had him in their gun-sights right at the start, pegging him as a threat to the Ibrox hegemony. They knew his plan was sound. They knew that it could work.

So they sent people to root around and see if they uncover something that turned the fans against him, or painted him in a negative light so that those working alongside him might turn their backs on him. These are low-ball gutter tactics which you usually only find in politics … think for a minute about how serious this is.

It is unprecedented. Think of Celtic as a business rather than a football club; this was the media taking it upon themselves to investigate someone who was not in the public eye, for proposing to invest in a struggling Scottish company. What the Hell is that about?

But this was just to be the first of their many, many disappointments … Fergus was a perfectly decent man and a respectable businessperson.

There was no dirt anywhere, because that’s just not the sort of guy that he is.

A simple man who lived a simple life, Fergus was a model of probity.

You could even say that he was a little bit boring!

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