Football clubs find it difficult to maintain a positive brand image that not only helps its commercial imperative, but binds fans ever-closer and attracts new supporters. There is always some idiot doing something idiotic that neither the club, nor the support as a whole, would even remotely tolerate.
As a consequence, fans across the country sigh at news reports when someone punches a horse, throws a bottle or generally behaves in a manner that defies the struggles their genetic make-up went through to be here today. Darwin suggested it should not be this way, but here we are.
When a club’s name is associated with some random act of idiocy, a well-known script is followed. Suspend the culprit and hope it is glossed-over by many, if not, publicly state disapproval while giving the obligatory “tiny minority” sop to the rest of the support, to let them know you have their back, whether it is a tiny minority or not, or even a minority.
Employee-transgressors are almost universally and immediately sacked. The chef who got drunk and wrote someone on social media that would never be said sober, has supreme-d his last chicken at the club restaurant.
This is harsh, but them’s the rules. Clubs want to attract everyone in the family, hospitality business and commercial partner spheres. Negative publicity, however tenuous, has to be curated through the ‘What would Walt (Disney) Do?’ prism.
So when a club diverges from this path, you’re left wondering why? Why would a club appoint a DUP councillor and Orangeman, inevitably with all of the baggage that world brings, as their public relations manager?
Today’s revelation in the Daily Record, that Newco’s new PR man, David Graham, referring to Celtic Park as “the piggery”, a few days after his “No surrender” video emerged, will surprise no one. Do not blame a duck for quaking, material like this is inevitably going to seep out.
But why do Newco want to be represented like this? Why challenge the modern sports business orthodoxy of appealing to families, high-value corporate spend and big ticket commercial deals? There is a constituency that will always stay loyal to those with values they share, irrespective of football success or general competency in any other area.
They are circling the wagons ahead of a ‘business interruption event’, either that, or they are the stupidest of stupid people who ever made it through 250k years of largely progressive genetic selection. No one sailing home on HMS Beagle could predict such a regressive wonder as this lot.
Wash your hands, isolate the vulnerable. If you are vulnerable and need food, shop at quiet times and do not touch your face until you wash your hands at home. Most of us will get through this, but all of us need to act for those who might not.
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https://youtu.be/oGwQKTWebgg
We’re 3 up
Tontine Tim
Free will? How does that work???
Bayern done it with Borussia.
TOBAGO STREET. It was an attempt to convey irony and allegory in a minimalist sort of way.
Well it made as much sense to me as most of the other comments around the blog these days.
I`ve Had To.
4-0 now
Nae way ma coupon is coming up Today.
Wan industry I’d like to die (apols to Gordy) is the betting wan.
https://youtu.be/XzXglHsUQkc
RattlingBhoy.csc
Hot Smoked
TT is demonstrating free will by not replying 😉
Gene
Maybe someone told him not to reply :-))
Someone alluded to this ear;ier but here is the whole article:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51962930
Hot Smoked
That was me – interesting that we are well ahead of Bayern, Juventus and Barcelona as far as the odds are concerned.
HS,
I’ll tell you how free will works. It gives you the right to chose between right and wrong. Everyone of us has been given that ability. The right to care about other people or take all the food off the shelves and stuff everybody else. Your choice not God’s not anybody else’s Yours!
Yes Ray, I could see the influence of both Samuel Beckett and the American Raymond Carver. And you couldn’t be further away from either Joyce or Dickens!
T
Interesting
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/51987594
Pog
I would say genes and upbringing ( nature ;nurture) nullify the idea of free will but I would rather chat with you re this over a pint.
J
Gene
Interesting indeed !
Cheerio for now.
Hun Kris Boyd a total hypocrite
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The former Scotland striker, writing in his Scottish Sun column, also says it was only a matter of time before Hearts “had the begging bowl out” and that mismanagement at the top would have him saying cheerio if he’d been at Hearts. “Given their fairly recent administration, Hearts have an absolute cheek asking staff to take such a savage reduction in their wages,” Boyd said.
“This is a club who have had a financial meltdown within the last ten years and promised not to make the same mistakes again. Clearly lessons have not been learned.
“Instead of watching every penny they spend, they have once again spent well beyond their means. The Jambos have offered too many bang average players ludicrous long-term contracts on crazy money. It is total insanity.
Hot Smoked
Of course it is a rangers
Vogue
Not surprised, guys a baffon how he commands a column in a national paper is reflective of the standard of journalism
Liam McGrandles is doing a Facebook gig from his house at 8 o’clock tonight for anybody at a loose end.
Voguepunter
Don’t see any hypocrisy there – Hearts survived admin and have made a similar mistake. For the new club it’s their first time around.
life is very akin to toilet paper….your either on a roll….
or your taking shoite from some arsehole….
smiley enjoy the moment…it is already gone thing
Braw
Free Will ? What’s he done ?
HS,
That pint and discussion will have to wait for a wee while I think. 🙁 But hopefully not too long.
Pógmathonyahun aka Laird of the Smiles on 21st March 2020 4:25 pm
HS,
I’ll tell you how free will works. It gives you the right to chose between right and wrong. Everyone of us has been given that ability. The right to care about other people or take all the food off the shelves and stuff everybody else. Your choice not God’s not anybody else’s Yours!
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Ideas about what is right and wrong have varied through history and across cultures, and the ability to differentiate right from wrong is not universal.
I see Brora Rangers ,13 points clear, are classed as ‘runaway leaders….’
Bada
What about the game in hand I hear them cry.
ron bacardi
I’m not too sure that you are taking the debate as seriously as you might do Ron.
` and the ability to differentiate right from wrong is not universal.`
Universal? It is not even in evidence in the same living-room !
Free will is free will. There is no complexity to it. Please don’t even go there.
As ‘GG says…… its gonnae be a long long weekend.
Probably had one of the wettest winters
https://amp.independent.ie/world-news/coronavirus/call-to-turn-off-tap-while-washing-to-save-supply-39059974.html
TURKEYBHOY on 21ST MARCH 2020 2:43 PM
To the religious maniac,who posts regularly on the moon howling shift,and to the guy that said”God works in mysterious ways”.So mysterious,he thinks that it’s fine ,for 1 million Yemeni kids to be dying of starvation,with 500,000,already dead.For the millions of babies dying every year in Africa,from starvation.For millions of people to be displaced by war and famine,every year,forced into abject poverty,and having to choose which child lives,and which one dies.Yes,I will agree,very mysterious,from this omnipotent deity.
People on earlier,debating evolution.Laughing at the idiot fundamentalists.I would ask them to look at their own beliefs. Certainly not one that I share.
The Bible tells us that Jesus said,”Suffer the little children,let them come to me”.Not doing a very good job ,is he.Apart from,plenty coming his way.
I will not count the number of “Little children,”.under his watch,raped,murdered,and left in ditch,somwhere.God can take a run right up my Humphreys.If he wants to debate it later,come ahead.
YUP
Who wants it, who wants it, who wants a rewind.
https://youtu.be/kiNPqsANWo4
Here we go again.
Gene @ 4:33pm – laughed out loud when I opened that link.
Cheers.
It’s the perfect solution for all.
Precedent now established for others to follow …
Team 13 points ahead awarded title.
Celtic fans happy.
A headline is generated which, if redacted carefully, reads
“Rangers awarded title”
Following on closely from their 5-1 victory over us last weekend, Sevco fans happy.
Apols if already posted
https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/celtic-legend-billy-mcneills-family-21696805.amp
Also love BROONIE on twitter
Covid 19 -Italy @ 6pm -21 3 20
Cases-53,578.
Deaths -4825.
793 people died in the 24 hrs between 6pm on 20 3 20 and 6pm today.
Sot
A bit morbid , I accept but did the fatalities group include many previously healthy, relativley fit people?
I am trying to get a handle on this unique situation.
ps ernie, I have enrolled on that OU course you poster earlier.
Scarey stuff SOT.
I hope we dinnae go through what Italy is going through, sounds like we are going the same way.😪
EL,
Ideas about what is right and wrong have varied through history and across cultures, and the ability to differentiate right from wrong is not universal.
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That may be so but free will is about being able to make a choice. We are not programmed to behave in the same way as other animals. A dog may choose to bite you but in general that will be a defence mechanism as opposed to free will. As humans we have choice to cause harm or to cause harmony.
It’s a subject that cannot be debated to any satisfaction on a football blog.
Some light reading for anybody interested:
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/freewill/#TheoWrin
PETEC on 21ST MARCH 2020 9:27 AM
Stephbhoy67,
You have no idea to be honest. Nae disrespect to ya.
Ye cannae afford to Live without Christ as yer King right now.
………
I have suffered great loss over the years. I have had many struggles and I have kept moving forward, for every dark day I have found a bright day. I have helped others and witnessed others going through their own struggles. I have watched them move beyond the pain and hurt.
Millions die every year, babies, kids, young adults older people of all ethnicities and religious beliefs. As individuals we pause but the world keeps on turning.
This pamdemic is no worse than other health related issues we have witnessed in the world. I wish no harm to anyone and i hope there is no more death.
The fact is there is and always has always has been more important things than sports, just as there is always more important things than movies, dancing, clubs, pubs, money, cars, clothes and jobs etc. Yet, we all partake in some form of other despite knowing millions are dying all the while.
I dont want this public health crisis to be used to disadvantage or advantage others in sports or politics. If that makes me a bad person in some peoples eyes that is fine.
HH