Last night, after the end of the Holland-Austria game, one of the best matches in the Euros that I’ve had the pleasure of watching, the Daily Record published a piece which was so crass that I was honestly shocked by it, and it takes a lot to shock me, and that paper and its cast of clowns should be well beyond being able to do it.
But they managed it. That’s how bad the article was.
“Joey Veerman in tears after early substitution in Euro 2024 two years on from controversial (Ibrox) comments” it read.
The writer is one I’ve come across only seldom; he seems to write a lot of those “transfer bulletin” stories which are based on conjecture from elsewhere; exactly the kind of thing I wrote about earlier as the mark of the media’s laziness.
I’m not naming him. It’s not this site’s job to give these people publicity, not even of the darker sort, the sort that morphs into infamy.
This article certainly deserves to earn that status.
It might be one of the most juvenile, wretched things I’ve read this year, even worse than a previous piece he did on the Dutch national team … or rather on its coach, who the cameras caught in the commision of an act involving his finger, his nose and his mouth, something this professional troll thought justified an article.
That’s not even a “slow news day” story.
That’s below the bottom of the barrel.
You could not force me to write and publish something like that with a gun pressed against my head.
And you can already guess the direction of this particular piece, I’m sure.
Veerman, who was taken off during a really poor first half from the Dutch was clearly unhappy leaving the field. Whatever the cause was, whether he just didn’t impress Koeman, the national coach, in that spell or whether it was an injury or something else, he was clearly emotional and frustrated.
And the first impulse of this Record halfwit was to gloat about it, because of something that happened two years ago and which most normal people would have put in the rearview mirror and forgotten about almost as soon as it happened.
These quotes are direct from the article itself;
“Veerman, 25, is a player who is very familiar to (Ibrox) fans, having faced off against the Light Blues in qualifying for the Champions League on two occasions. The Gers got past the Eredivisie side in the play-off round in August 2022, which prompted a bitter response from the Dutchman who claimed that the Ibrox side “didn’t deserve” to play in the continent’s premier club competition.
And 12 months later ahead of the second leg clash between the two sides in Eindhoven, Veerman again lashed out at the Gers for their performance in the 2-2 draw at Ibrox in the first leg, claiming they had spent most of the game shooting “balls into the stands”.
“That is becoming a repetitive story, we are not just one man in the sixteen. We have many players who would like to have the ball, but too little going forward. We have to work on that. (They) shoot balls into the stands throughout the game.”
Apparently, these were not ordinary comments made in the aftermath of games; they were a slight on Ibrox which had to be avenged. And that revenge waited two long years, until last night, when it could finally be realised in the image of a young guy leaving a football pitch visibly upset.
I mean what is that all about?
What does that say about the way some of these people think, that they let stuff fester for this long until it bubbles up to the surface in this fashion? It makes me ask a question I have asked many times on this site over the years; what is wrong with these people?
What is it that makes them behave like this, in a way that diminishes them as this does?
I mean, you’d think there were no real stories at Ibrox, or real concerns over there.
This is how some of them spend their time; gloating over stuff that could not be less important, like Scotland’s exit from the Euros and Dutch substitutions. In the meantime, their own club lies to them and takes the piss and they stumble from one disaster to the next.
Long may it continue, I say … but this … God, do they never get tired of all that hate?
Because even having to write about it is exhausting.
It must be worse to live that way.
It’s just like the 12th of July, they won’t let that go either. Bunch of backward thinking hillbilly weirdos.
” What’s WRONG with these people? ” is what Willem Dafoe’s character asks the character played by Gene Hackman in the film Mississippi Burning.
He was referring to the KKK, and the sentiment is equally apt when describing the huns DUP et al.
This is who they are and we must never forget it, nor allow them to.
Ach James, leave the poor wee demented souls alone, they don’t have a lot to smile about at the best of times, so if some petty, inconsequential, minor event gives them a wee chubby, let the wankers enjoy themselves.
They never get tired of it James. Hatred is what defines them.
From an early age they are ‘conditioned’ at home in the family, at school (Non Denominational).
The ‘Cultural ‘ Superiority mantra is drilled into them to the exclusion of learning and adapting to the
normal, everyday challenges of growing up, maturity. They lack the cognitive bandwidth to rationalise events, experiences
and outcomes that don’t fit their ‘Kultural’ bubble. So ‘ othering’ is their default reaction to anything that challenges their worldview.’ A big boy did it’, ‘ it’s all the fault of the SNP, GCC, The Unseen Fenian Hand, The Vatican.
Most of them, because they lack the ability of introspection, are condemned to live a life of Intellectual and Social Stasis where the competing determinants of Cultural Superiority and Victimhood are never resolved throughout life, Education, Relationships and Employment.
To be honest, if they weren’t so obnoxious they would be pitiable.
Great post SFATHENADIROFCHIFTNESS !
Well said my friend,sfathenadirofchiftness,btw you need to get an easier name than that big long convoluted thing.anyway hail hail.
Remember when these same hacks spent months and months chugging over Joey when they thought he was going to sign for them
You asked James… “What is wrong with these people” ?
Simple – They are ‘peepil’ !!!