The Daily Record’s Article On Celtic’s Earnings Sums Up That Biased Little Rag.

What a shocker of a piece in The Record today.

And yes, I hear you all out there; “Just one shocker, James? Surely there was more than that?”

You are of course correct, and I’ll get to Jackson’s pile of steaming excrement later. But for now let us focus on the shocker I’m writing about here, that piece on the earnings from the clubs over the course of the season.

“What Rangers made in prize money despite trophyless season as Celtic continue to rule financial roost” screams the headline.

And right away you have to wonder to yourself; what is the purpose and the function of an article which has their name first, and talks about how brilliantly their earnings were when ours were so, so much higher?

The question sort of answers itself, doesn’t it?

As usual, that is The Record doing what The Record has always done best. Catering to its core readership first. Celtic’s earnings from European competition and prize money dwarf theirs – ours are one third higher in fact – but that rag and its two-bob reporters can’t write that without first giving their fans a little feel-good.

What a pathetic mess of a newspaper that is. It’s no wonder that our fans think of that publication as some kind of bad joke. It has spawned a spoof series on this website, one that looks as if it could continue far into the future as he just keeps on inspiring content.

There are things which aren’t even in the article, such as the £6 million we made from the Sydney trip, one where after court cases and settlement fees they will actually post a loss.

James Bisgrove, their new CEO, was the man who “masterminded” that disaster, something nobody thought to ask him about during all the media hoo-ha over him last week.

This is what our media does best, and that particular outlet does it better than any other.

They suck up to Ibrox, and pander to the dumbest fans in the country. Over time that hasn’t been helpful to their favourite club but that doesn’t make it less irritating for the rest of us.

That £10 million differential in prize money, the £6 million from the Australia trip and the decisive advantage we have over them in terms of season ticket income due to having a bigger ground all adds up, and that’s probably why The Record only wants to focus on the fluff and not concentrate on the bigger picture, this summer and the respective budgets.

That’s the real story … so of course, the one they won’t write.