What is it with our former players when it comes to the Ibrox ticket standoff? Is Chris Sutton really the only one of them with the guts to tell the truth about that, and point out to people where the blame lies? We’ve had Mark Wilson and others misrepresent this matter several times already and this weekend Andy Walker was doing it, and not for the first time.
Walker’s comments, on PLZ, were that he believed the “talks” between the two clubs were nothing but smoke and mirrors. A “token gesture” he called it.
Wow. Do you think he came to that conclusion all by himself, or did he need a team of advisors working on it? The blogs had already revealed them to be that and the club itself had confirmed it through STV. That story was what we all thought it was; leaked by Ibrox to try to make them sound reasonable and responsible at Celtic’s expense.
So as far as I’m concerned, Walker should get no points for seeing through an obvious charade, and especially so long after the fact when we’d already had that established. But he gets even less credit for what he said next; ““I don’t think you are ever going back to seven or eight thousand. I don’t think the clubs want it.”
And I read that and wondered to myself, “Is this guy really as stupid as that?” Why doesn’t he listen? Why isn’t he paying attention? Celtic’s stated policy – stated a dozen times, through the club’s own site, through the mainstream media and through the blogs – is for us to return to exactly that. So why doesn’t he know that? Why does he talk this rubbish?
I mean, seriously. There is simply no excuse for being as ignorant and ill-informed as that, for not knowing something so basic, not when the facts are freely available in any place that he cares to look. One club – the one at Ibrox – does not want a return to the status quo. Is he scared to point the finger where it belongs? This guy isn’t exactly getting his own chapter in Profiles In Courage but what exactly does he think will happen if he tells the truth?
I am so tired of the way our position here is constantly distorted, but I’m more tired of it being ex-Celts who do it and Walker is far and away the worst of them, with this not even being his first offence. I don’t know what part of this he isn’t understanding, only that he is now coming across like someone who has no interest in the facts.
Come on James what do you want? Tell the truth and lose your job. He is too cowardly to take that route.
“I don’t think you are ever going back to seven or eight thousand. I don’t think the clubs want it.”
With all due respect James, this statement is the crux of the current state of affairs and is an accurate assessment of where things stand. While Celtic’s position is that they want to go back to the way things were with large away allocations, Rangers started this whole fiasco precisely because they DON’T want that many Celtic fans at Ibrox ever again. The clubs – plural – clearly don’t want seven or eight thousand. Unless and until those at Ibrox change their mind about this, Andy Walker is 100% accurate in his assessment here.
Is he fk!
Sorry Benjiman… But ‘Rangers’ did absolutely NOT start any fiasco because deceased things simply cannot start fiascos – well because – they are deceased !
It is SEVCO that started the fiasco and SEVCO who are continuing the fiasco…
Believe me – Because I speak the truth and nothing but the truth – which is the polar opposite of The Scottish Football Media…
You are absolutely correct in the context of who started the fiasco as you so very accurately and correctly describe it, but just wrong with the name of the new club (not company or newco) that started the fiasco !
PLZ is very mealy mouthed with most topics. Wee Peter sitting on his fence. And Roughy playing the house clown.
He’s a soup taker, so has to go with the flow! If you see what I mean. There again maybe he is just a coward.
Your right this is not nowhere near Walker’s first offence but he is quickly being caught up by Mark Wilson who seemingly is getting off on it regularly of late. Wilson; now there’s a man with a coat of many colours and no shame where his career counts first and foremost; and just like Walker it’s above truth.
Which brings me to my next point nicely. Like all those Trump supporting republicans that say they believe what he says, and that he’s being set up. That he’s not a criminal, an insurrectionist or fraudster. Conveniently or not, forgetting or not, of course that he’s already been proven and convicted as a rapist already. Not just alleged, going to court or still to be judged but an actual convicted Sex Offender.
Walker too does know the truth. Those that read his lies and want it to be true, just like the survival lie, know the truth, Wilson knows the truth but nothing’s to gained in that. Trump wants power, Walker wants money oh aye and relevance, and Wilson wants a tv and radio career.
So regardless they’ll keep lying through their teeth, lie a bit more, continue lying then lie some more until someone pays them differently. Just so long as someone gives attention for it and tells them that they’re still being noticed and relevant.
None will have eminence. None will have honour. None will have glory. There will be no laurels but the truth, the truth goes marching on. HH
Walker used to one of ma heroes in ma late teens…
I hated him on Sky in the matches that were on in the pub –
When Sevco scored v Celtic his vocals rose ten fold to what they did when we scored v Sevco…
It was the same with all the other teams as well –
Yeah – we get that his director was telling him to be like that but there’s morals and morals…
But he has none and quite a substantial number of ex Hoops players have not a shread either –
Why couldn’t he just be professional and neutral and keep his vocals the exact same when EVERY team scored…
But jeez – Professionalism in The Scottish Football Media ????
Jeepers there’s more chance of me and ma 20 stone torso sleeping with Europe’s top supermodel than Walker being professional !
Your right Walker is aToady???
Andy walker is a complete fkn knob
I can’t stand walker,he never ever has a good word to say about Celtic but boot likes up to the tax dodging liquidated govan mob