The First Sign Of Paranoia …
“No one likes us. Never a truer word spoken. When Rangers clinched their first league title in a decade, a couple of months ago, I wrote in this newspaper’s daily sister title about the shame I felt as a fan; how disappointed I was that the club had failed to do what it could to prevent fans gathering outside Ibrox to mark the triumph.”
Imagine believing that “no-one likes us” is the most important line in that song.
What can you say, except that the mind-set of the journalist has to be seriously questioned?
The rest of his point is quite correct; the club did nowhere near enough that day and they should have suffered universal condemnation for it, but the commentariat was too busy eulogising them for it.
In fact, it took the publication of the police’s own internal thinking on it for the spotlight to be shone there, where it belonged the whole time.
McIvor did express his dismay, and for that he gets partial credit … but most journalists chose to utterly ignore it and that was part of the problem here.