Cognitive Dissonance with Pressley always in middle of controversy

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Stephen Pressley’s Falkirk team did well at Hampden yesterday but the manager did himself no credit with his half time rant at the referee, who chopped off a perfectly good Celtic goal but annoyed Pressley for awarding a penalty when Thomas Rogne was hauled to the ground.

An irritated Pressley, who always seems to be the one in the middle of any controversy, then gave an inexplicable post-match interview to the BBC, demonstrating as clear a case of Cognitive Dissonance you are likely to find outside of a textbook.  At the time he, apparently, hadn’t seen a TV replay of the penalty incident, made no attempt to claim Darren Dods was innocent of the alleged discretion, nor did he suggest the referee had erred, but he was clearly troubled trying to reconcile these facts with his feeling of being wronged.

To all aspiring Cognitive Dissonance posters in the CQN comments section, new standards have been set. You are a bunch of amateurs with functioning resolution pathways and have no future in the game.

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  1. amadeus says:

     

    30 January, 2012 at 19:35

     

     

    you on the wind up?

     

    have the DR grown a set? just like delahun?

  2. Oh Jesus Mary Mother and Joseph, FF is going to be a scream in just a few hours.

     

    But remember!

     

    Amadeus had it first!

  3. amadeus, Is there any chance it will be on their website tonight as I

     

    really dont like handing money over to read that s@it?

     

     

    PB

  4. DubaiBhoy (nee LondonBhoy) says:

     

    30 January, 2012 at 19:34

     

    ‘What’s the big story that’s coming out tomorrow? What have I missed…. ‘

     

     

     

    Jabba has hinted that he’s sitting on a big story about the huns.

     

     

    Speirs has suggested he’s full of crap.

  5. !!Bada Bing!! Kano 1000 on

    amadeus-Is this the endgame according to your source?

     

    *carefully putting champange in fridge*

  6. Lads read this and then phone Keevins.

     

     

     

    The Flawed Logic of the Scottish Media’s Stance on Rangers’ Troubles wp.me/p1Adbc-aY

  7. I'm just Keevin's Little Bampot on

    I am one of those guys who wants no Rangers and that is because they have broken the Tax laws for years allegedly

  8. I may be a bampot, but I know I’m a bampot who knows more about the Rangers Tax Case than Hugh Keevins :)

     

     

    Someone put this dinosaur out of his misery

  9. From the Times:

     

     

    “Everton have had a £3.5 million bid accepted for Nikica Jelavic, taking advantage of Rangers’ parlous financial position…Merseyside club entering the final hours of the transfer window. Jelavic, who missed Rangers’ 4-0 win over Hibernian on Saturday…”

  10. go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots go on the bampots

  11. RATM - A BAMPOT! on

    Someone better be logged into FF just now doing some reconnaissance for all us Tims not brave enough to venture into the abyss.

  12. The real bampots are the poodles who refused to investigate, broadcast, write or talk about the biggest cheats in Scottish football history, just to protect their own self interest.

     

     

    Keechbags the lot of them.

     

     

    Lubo.

  13. I'm just Keevin's Little Bampot on

    What about Clyde playing a HMRC advert during the break, hahahahahahahaha

     

     

    it finished with “Just Pay what you owe”

     

     

    are they having a laugh

  14. Correction.

     

     

    The Flawed Logic of the Scottish Media’s Stance on Rangers’ Troubles wp.me/p1Adbc-aY

  15. Snake Plissken on

    So Hugh keevins writes one story about newco and it was in the paper on Sunday and that gives the media a free pass on this?

     

     

    We have the papers Hugh, they have been kept for a very long time.

     

     

    RTC blog proved Daryl King’s big attack on that website and the individual who does that blog was proved to be a lie. The man was caught in his own web of lies and so are you.

     

     

    The caller was correct – this information was out there 3 years ago and many chose not to talk about it, to ignore it or to hide it away as Rangers fans do. They respond badly to bad news and don’t buy your papers and so that has had an affect on editorial policy.

     

     

    A cursory glance at the Brozek story in the Record on Saturday as the player was moving to Celtic proves how clueless the old media have become.

  16. billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions billions

  17. Questions, questions.

     

     

    How exactly was a UEFA licence granted?

     

     

    Was their an agreement to pay and if that was not honoured should that have been declared by Rangers or clarification sought?

     

     

    Were Rangers using two contracts for players on EBTs and did they notify the SFA. If they did should the SFA have asked questions as to their legitimacy?

     

     

    The valuation placed on Ibrox was clearly excessive, had the SFA on looking at past accounts when licencing not a duty to question those valuations?

     

     

    There can be no question of reinstatement of any club in any form until these fundamental questions are answered by those responsible for applying the rules designed to protect all of our game rather than one part of it.

     

     

    Then and only then can we start to look at repairing the damage and if that means removing the causes that is what is required.

  18. Why are they not calling this hun a bampot.

     

    Disnae understand how ragers are in the grubber.

  19. the glorious balance sheet on

    Amadeus,

     

     

    Has the estranged Mrs Whyte told the Daily Record where the financial bodies are buried?

  20. RATM - A BAMPOT! on

    starry plough says:

     

    30 January, 2012 at 19:39

     

     

    Haha, I really, really would love one of those t shirts.

  21. Amadeus,

     

     

    Would you know if one would be thrown out of Monaco if one were caught snorting white powder?

  22. 1. bampot. Glaswegian word for a “Headcase”. Away ye go ya “Bampot” ye! …

     

     

    At one time aye.

  23. Amadeus & James Forrest

     

    Thats my early night up the swanny. THANK YOU.

     

    ps still time for someone to ask about jacksons “wealh of the scale” claim

     

    HAIL HAIL