“As far as I’m concerned, it’s a damned shame that a field as potentially dynamic and vital as journalism should be overrun with dullards, bums, and hacks, hag-ridden with myopia, apathy and complacence, and generally stuck in a bog of stagnant mediocrity.”
Hunter S. Thompson
Scottish sports media is a sham. At The Daily Reprobate, they allow so-called journalists to lie and subvert the truth. Rangers supporters did not use their children as shields to obstruct a police reserve response at Hampden. The Hibs supporters did not assault the Rangers players, despite what the intellectually-challenged Keith Jackass would have us believe. The Rangers supporters who entered the field of play were motivated by their sectarian venom, not any sense of defending the players who had already departed to the dressing rooms. There is no excuse for these criminals, despite the best efforts of Mangetout Traynor to give them one. Robert Matteo of Aston Villa confirmed to his local media that Joleon Lescott did not agree terms at Rangers. Rangers could not afford him and made a second year offer that insulted him. Traynor, Kerr, Warburton and Johnstone were lying through their back teeth.
Today is transfer deadline day. Rangers are apparently holding out for £1.5m for a player (Waghorn) who when not injured scores less goals than Kenny Miller from open play, but is adept from the penalty spot. Some unknown player will be plucked from a second tier backwater obscurity to replace him. We might as well call him Billy I’ll sign for a bottle of ginger McNonymous.
Meanwhile Senderos refuses to sign a desultory contract offer. If Waghorn is sold, will Rangers up the ante with Senderos or let another defender walk away due to their inability to work with their sponsors and business partners? If Senderos does decide that he can earn more on Swiss building sites, what line will Warburton spin to hide the fact that Rangers are running on fumes? Things are so tight at Ibrox that they have decided that there is only 48 weeks in a year and that there will be no holiday pay. They won’t see this season out without a £4m win in the courts, the guarantee of home ties all the way to the semi-finals of both cups and the shortfall being picked up by the duped Club 1872. It does not bode well. If lies were currency, they would make it through the season with money to spare.
The lies are not the exclusive preserve of King and Warburton. Stewart Robertson has stepped up to the mendacious plate by asserting that the Rangers supporters only reverted to their hate-crime Billy Boys chants once the Hibs fans were on the field. The chants were present throughout the game. They were not sung after the final whistle as the majority of Rangers supporters were making their way to the exits. Two hundred or so took the hate-crime to a criminal crescendo. Those present and watching on TV witnessed these hate-criminals attack the Hibs supporters. Traynor, using a script written by the pop-up director, Je Suis Graham (Peace be upon him), then took the BBC to task, accusing them of bias. How can live pictures be biased Mangetout? Have a close look at the following photograph. Can you see any Rangers players under threat from Hibs supporters? The only threat is from the bald Rangers fan brandishing the corner flag as a weapon.
Prior to the publishing of the charges arising from the aftermath , Robertson was keen to subvert the narrative at the SFA. When this did not work he pressed his lickspittles at the Record into action. As the charges don’t fit with Keith Jackass’ lying narrative, he and the other four members of his lying 5-a-side team, namely Robertson, Graham, Traynor and Kerr, are continuing to push the lies to anyone stupid enough to believe them.
The following is the Notices of Complaint as issued by the SFA’s Compliance Officer (Tony McGlennan) yesterday, in regard to Hibs:
Case One
Alleged party in breach: Hibernian FC
Match: Hibernian FC v Rangers FC (Scottish Cup Final – Saturday 21st May 2016)
Disciplinary rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 311
In that at the above match you failed to adhere to the Cup Competition Rules, specifically Rule 28 of the Rules of The Scottish Cup. That at the above match damage was sustained to Hampden Stadium, being the stadium where the Scottish Cup Final was played, as a consequence of misbehaviour by supporters of your Club. That the misbehaviour by your supporters occurred at the conclusion of the above match, whereby a number of your supporters carried out an incursion onto the pitch, and thereafter remained upon the pitch until cleared by Police Scotland and Stewards. That in the course of this misbehaviour by your supporters damage was sustained to the stadium, as follows:
(i) To the surface of the pitch, portions of which were removed; and/or
(ii) To a set of goal posts which were broken and had netting removed; and/or
(iii) To parts of the LED advertising system situated at the perimeter of the pitch, in the vicinity of both the East Stand, and/or the North Stand; and/or
(iv) To advertising hoardings situated at the perimeter of the pitch, in the vicinity of the East Stand.
The narrative that the lying Jackass would have us believe has been unequivocally refuted by the official report. When will Jackson be censured by his sports desk editor, Darren Cooney, or as his lies appeared on the front page, the rag’s chief editor Murray Foote? When will someone report Jackass to IPSO? I suggest that Reiver, the Hibs fan who formerly commented on this site, should write to IPSO presently. In regard to Rangers, they have the following case to answer:
Case Two
Alleged party in breach: Rangers FC
Match: Hibernian FC v Rangers FC (Scottish Cup Final – Saturday 21st May 2016)
Disciplinary rule allegedly breached: Disciplinary Rule 311
In that at the above match you failed to adhere to the Cup Competition Rules, specifically Rule 28 of the Rules of The Scottish Cup. That at the above match damage was sustained to Hampden Stadium, being the stadium where the Scottish Cup Final was played, as a consequence of misbehaviour by supporters of your Club. That the misbehaviour by your supporters occurred at the conclusion of the above match whereby, following on from a pitch incursion by supporters of Hibernian FC, a number of your supporters also carried out an incursion onto the pitch. That thereafter supporters of your Club who had engaged in the pitch incursion remained upon the pitch until cleared by Police Scotland and Stewards. That in the course of this misbehaviour by your supporters damage was sustained to the stadium, as follows:
(i) To parts of the LED advertising system situated at the perimeter of the pitch, in the vicinity of the North Stand, and /or the West Stand; and/or
(ii) To advertising hoardings situated at the perimeter of the pitch, in the vicinity of the West Stand.
So as far as the SFA is concerned, the assaults on the Hibs supporters are of no consequence. These charges are hardly worth the paper that they are printed on. It’s a classic SFA whitewash in the LNS tradition that absolves the organizers of any responsibility. The SFA are evidently more concerned by the fact that the corner flag was misappropriated than it being used as a weapon. The net result at the hearing on Wednesday 5th October 2016 will be a slap on the wrists and a peppercorn fine.
I would not be surprised if King challenged any fine in the Court of Session. Conveyancing solicitor Blair will be alive to the earning possibilities of a court petition where the Scottish judiciary will always find for the establishment club. Will King rest until the lies are believed?
