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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Turkey ramping it up.All beaches now closed to the public.No one over 65 ,or with health problems,allowed out in public.3000 Lira fine.All public benches now taped off.Going by the pictures it seems to be working.With the beach closed off,I am now in near total isolation.No great problem,its the lack of watching Celtic that’s the problem.
TB
For those not allowed out in public,what happens when essential provisions/medicines are required?
Turkeybhoy,
Cheers dude.
I wish you well.
Good on the Ruskies.
A bit of Humanity at last. Instead of fuckwitery.
Fuckwits descended on Glencoe yesterday to ski ffs I am sure the residents in the town and around about were delighted, they might have made a few coins but at what cost.
Fuckwits gathering in households for a bevy, Fuckwits gathering in parks, Fuckwits gathering for walks. Incredible Fuckwitery, stupid and should be feckin jailed for irresponsibility toward their fellow mankind.
My nephew put on family chat about him and his mum (going through Chemo) going to go for a drive and a walk does anyone want to come, it beggars belief, only essential travel at this time ffs.
LOCKDOWN LOCKDOWN LOCKDOWN
We need it rapid.
D. :)
Petec, comes across like a member of the Westboro Baptist Church ..
The raptor isnae coming to get us!
Big Jimmy .. phone the cat protection league .. maybe they’ll be able to look after your wee moggy, if it comes to it..
Try not to stress too much .. it will only exacerbate your condition.
Zagreb has been hit with a 5.3 magnitude earthquake this morning which forced people back onto the streets just when they were being locked down.
One 15 year old boy is reportedly dead.
Buildings including the parliament and the historic cathedral have been damaged
Spare an extra thought for the people
Yawn John.
YNWA Respect Russia. 👍
People are facing starvation in this country today, a top 6 economy in the world, because of this crisis. The food banks are empty due to people panic buying and stockpiling. This means that those who give to food banks have either stopped giving or more likely cannot get their hands on non-perishable goods to give. Also the Churches have closed which are part of the food bank supply chain.
I managed a food bank shop this morning and would urge anyone who can to do the same to do so and take it along to your local food bank due to the closure of the usual food supply lines.
Now this brings me to the supermarkets and it is time for them to stand up to the breach. They have been making massive profits over the last few weeks so time for them to make donations through their stores to local food banks. I would also suggest that every 2 weeks they have a ‘Food Bank Day’ when they allocate time for those who want to help their neighbours the opportunity to purchase food for local food banks. I would suggest that during that time patrons are only allowed to purchase bread, eggs and dairy produce for themselves and all other purchases are left in in-house containers.
I know the above is not ideal but I’m sure it could be tweaked and something rolled out to help those in poverty at this testing time.
DAVID66@11.28
Saw a news item on Sicilian tv earlier.-thousands of fuckwits in Skegness yesterday.
If anything in the above doesn’t read right it is because I am an eejit who didn’t proof read properly.
You’re probably a decent guy, petec .. but tone the preaching down a bit ..
https://theprint.in/opinion/mecca-to-vatican-covid-19-proves-when-human-beings-are-in-peril-gods-flee-first/382851/
Last I’ve got to say on the matter ..
Got a shed foundation to lay … On a braw sunny day! 😁
Pog
B&M have announced a scheme where they will donate £1500 of goods to the local foodbank – in Biddulph we have applied through their head office as we have a B&M in the town.
But without doubt donations are slowing down.
South of Tunis
Incoming medical help from Cuba too, incredibly the 6th country to benefit from Cuba’s initiative since Covid-19 landed from what I’ve read.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQQ9Uq4mHCI
HH
Morning bhoys and ghirls.
My son Tom has been in self isolation in Wuhan throughout this crisis. Initially he could go out on his moped and go to buy food etc. but for the last 60 days, total lockdown. He orders food and a trusty from his estate delivers. He has not contracted the virus and is well but maybe a bit cabin fevered. Lockdown works if its adhered to.
The Chinese Govt mobilized its resources eventually and they seem to have ridden out the storm. Western Govts have been even slower to react because they are now using economic powers that for decades they denied they had. Govts spend money into existence, this borrowing/ debt nonsense is exactly that. Austerity was totally unnecessary. A sovereign government cannot go skint in it’s own currency because it controls its supply and can influence demand. The so called economic gurus are now doing mental cartwheels, much like the same club proponents.
We must respect the isolation. It’s our best chance of minimizing deaths.
HH
When we come through this I pray that the world will have a better perspective on what is important.
It feels like we are under siege with no clear end in sight, we now have an idea of what the people of Syria and Palestine plus others have been living through, a life that you don’t control with danger on your doorstep.
Be safe
GER57.
Indeed !.
Saw a tv interview with a union activist in Brescia –
“Dont hear much from the advocates of austerity or the it’s just a flu clowns these days'”
Diverse places.
Time to Shutdown.
Skepta.csc
This Might make your eyes water.
https://youtu.be/BCysBpjRKME
GER57 on 22ND MARCH 2020 11:53 AM
Good post. I’m glad your son is okay. You make an excellent point, after this is over there will be an opportunity to make society better or worse. There will be a lot of vested interests trying to take us down the wrong path but it can’t be allowed to happen. Already in the US Trump is trying to rewrite iostory and Johnson and Cummings will do the same over here if we let them.
*history*
Morning folks from a Kentucky where spiring has surely sprung.
Was reading the news, flipped to BBC Sport and they appear to be running a new “From the Archives” section the fitba pages.
One link is Hibs ending their 114 year wait for the Scottish Cup. The other is thems beating us back in December. FFS. Not even 3 months ago, not quite the dictionary definition of “archives” surely.
Someone mentioned Trump earlier and his lies. Here is a part of recent interview with Georgetown Law professor Joshua Geltzer who served as senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council in the Obama administration and, prior to that, as deputy legal adviser to the NSC and counsel to the assistant attorney general for national security.
Question:
I guess part of what worries me is that in uncertain times, it’s tremendously hard to know what national security and democracy-protective steps will be taken that make us genuinely less free, and what seems like inchoate fear and panic. Do you have some imaginary line in your head—a place in which you would know when constitutional democracy itself is imperiled?
Answer:
I have a bunch of lines, and I worry there’s already chalk on Trump’s cleats as he plays up to and even over them. They’re not all about legal authorities; they’re also about norms. For example, one line that I regard as sacrosanct is the line between public interest and private gain. Trump seems more inclined to the latter than the former: for weeks, he seemed to think he could boost his private reelection chances by denying the growing threat posed by coronavirus, even if that denial endangered public safety—as it surely did. Another example is the line between fact and fiction: and, again, I fear Trump is spreading at least as much fiction as fact about this virus, and probably more. To claim, as Trump has, that the outbreak is under control or fully handled isn’t just “spinning” the situation; it’s outright lying about a public health crisis. And that, to my mind, is a threat to constitutional democracy—to a governmental order that’s premised on a public able to be informed and responsive to truth, not lies.
Watch what gets changed during these times.
FrankTerry on 22nd March 2020 12:16 pm
I saw an old video clip somewhere of Cummings talking at a political meeting explaining how Governments can take advantage of emergency situations to push through root and branch changes.
I suspect they will not let the opportunity pass.
Hello again all you young rebels.
G’day AIPPLE, just a quick post cause i know Paul will
be on now.
H.H . Mick
Ernie
Your suspicion is justified.
H.H . Mick
The head of a Chinese Red Cross delegation to Italy was brutal:
“I don’t know what you’re thinking.”
The lockdown is too lax to get things under control, he says.
Imagine what he’d say about Johnson’s approach & the current casual state of the UK
https://twitter.com/i/status/1241438265183473666
G’day indeed Melbourne Mick.
Bandaid on a bullet wound over here right now.
HH!
The state of Victoria has closed it’s borders now, other states
following suit, complete shutdown, but the prime minister
insists he’s sending his kids to school?
Are all those leading politicians complete buffoons?
No need to answer.
H.H . Mick
Melbourne Mick
Johnson would do the same but there isn’t a school big enough to house all of his offspring.
Happy Mother’s Day….
“Ma maw’s a mullyinair, blue eye’s n’ curly hair,
walkin’ doon Buchanan Street wae hur
big banana feet”…
©️ Easterhoose 1972.
Ernie @ 12.38….Naomi Klein’s book The Shock Doctrine is on that very subject.
While the western media continues to play the distraction card, blaming Russia, China and Iran for misinformation published in western media outlet while they ignored the WHO. Some of the information produced from western sources such as the virus is unlikely to have too big an impact on specific age groups is now falling apart.
A couple of statistics I’ve noticed over the last couple of weeks
67% of those infected are under 70
20% of those infected are under 30
Robert Levandowski gives $1 million to help fight coronavirus……as the huns make a video of giving 2 tubs of hand sanitizer, which was donated by a company.
Even if you are stuck inside and can’t visit
Wish your mother a
Happy Mother’s Day
DAVID66 on 22ND MARCH 2020 11:28 AM
Fuckwits forcing teachers in West and East dumbarton to go to school as normal to work with senior pupils.
JESUS WEPT!!
JOHN1314MAC on 21ST MARCH 2020 6:51 PM
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CorkCelt .. he’s still not ordered a lockdown ..
Still dithering!
…….Thatcher,the ideology of me myself and I,the selfish individual,coming home to roost imo.Individual over society,remember when she vomited it at The general assembly and we all wondered what’s this high brow guff she speaks of,a few generation later,he can’t lead.its your choice.
He goes to the press podium tho it were a half hour on”have I got news for you”
The sidekick psychopath Cummings talk of losing a few in the herd mentality,pension savings.
we have a political “moonbeam farter” as a pm.so paranoid after brexit the rejected scientific advice.
B2B
,re your link She is quality
Thanks.
Celtic mac
Great to hear you were in with Oldtim67
Good to hear he is littering about
HH
Respect to Robert, I hope a lot more wealthy people help others right now.
Aipple..,
Its sick when people like this Geltzer steps up to start blaming the incumbents for a process he is guilty of participating in, This guy was part of Obama’s vilification of real whistle blowers such as Manning while screaming about politically agenda driven intelligence operatives trying to find impeachment grounds to charge Trump. I suggest there are plenty of grounds for impeachment but its unlikely they only apply o Trump therefore he convoluted attempts to find specific grounds for Trump that will leave the other probably more serious reasons untouched for fear they will be used in the future.
Wow. New York now has more cases than the rest of USA combined. The authorities over there have been criminally negligent up till now and I’m afraid there will be thousands of preventable deaths, many more than elsewhere in the developed world. Here in UK, the same applies but our NHS, although nearly overrun, may cope.
I was due to go to my nephew’s wedding in Belfast in June. Postponed till next year. Bride is heartbroken, but she and everyone else is buckling down and getting on with it.
Viva our NHS!