I had very little interest in what former Rangers player Kirk Broadfoot did or said in a match against Wigan recently, I didn’t even know he was still in the game. What makes him newsworthy (to some) today is a 10 match ban, handed down by The FA in England, for what was reportedly sectarian abuse.
What I found galling is how Mirror Group Newspapers reported this story. The Mirror wrote:
“Kirk Broadfoot has been handed a staggering 10-game ban for a sectarian tirade against James McClean.
The Rotherham and former Scotland defender will have to serve what is believed to be the longest ban for verbal abuse in English football history.”
Its Scottish sister paper the Daily Record reproduced the same text with one edit:
“Kirk Broadfoot has been handed a staggering 10-game ban for launching a verbal tirade against James McClean.
The former Scotland and Rangers defender will have to serve what is believed to be the longest ban for verbal abuse in English football history.”
The italics are mine. For reasons which don’t surprise me, the biggest selling Scottish newspaper decided it was unwise to report that a former Rangers player received a huge ban for sectarian abuse. In 2015.
When Celtic Quick News started 11 years ago a couple of newspapers and radio stations pretty much controlled the news, politics and sports reporting in Scotland. The journos all worked together; this was a real cabal. If they wanted to blacken the name of a Fergus McCann, or his like, droves of people quickly turned away from him.
CQN started because reporting like this was rife and unchecked. I know the value of the new “citizen” media, but I also know its limits. We need newspapers, we need people to continue to buy them and we need them to find a viable business model. Without them, reporting which requires considerable resource, experience and, occasionally, money, will not happen.
Most of all, we need them to stop cutting their own throat.
I’m off to Aberdour today, for the 12th CQN Golf Charity Open, not that I’m a golfer, of course. See you there.
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How about the ” scabby necks ”
That was wee Sull `s preferred description.
Night Timdom
TAL
HH jamesgang
feck thought i was sober
Jemesgang
them huns for disambiguity!!!.
they are JUST FECKET.
deadfeckedgoneshamoochpuffofsmokezombiefiedmummyfiedsixfootundercatacombed
Need SPEC SAVERS
butsybhoy
Sober?
Who knows.
Zombie? Hun?
Not a chance.
Good enough for me!
Night
HH jamesgang
It’s difficult to know if we are on the verge of greatness or mediograty after Wednesday evening. Our new Centre forward should go and drop 20 pounds, big Virgal should be on a performance bonus for qualifying for the CL. Looking forward to Wednesday and young Lee banging in three.
jamesgang
00:02 on 25 July, 2015
stringer bell
Apols – if necessary – I’d happily cs them huns for disambiguity!!!
May I ask, is your world on the Irish side of the Irish Sea?
HH jamesgang
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Actually amigo, it’s not that far from your own.
The Peoples republic of Coatbridge, no less :-)
There was many an insult prefaced with the word Sticky back in the day. A lot revolving around bands flute and accordion – if my memory serves.
The idealism of youth !
Cork celt
very interesting post ref stickies
SB this has been talked about before ref HUNS
some friendly against a team from the south ( Burnley i think),when they wrecked the place the town chief
referred to them as HUNS.
Me i just call them C–ts with a big fat Orange in that.
Turkeybhoy. Didn’t you see my post the other day?
You know.
The one is response to your statement where you said you can’t live with arseholes?
I said.
How can you you therefore live with yourself?
Woooooossshhhh.
Went over you head didn’t it?
Diddumss.
butsy
Dobs.
Now then.
Careful,with that tax.
The Labour Party are in an absolute mess. It’s undeniable. And they currently don’t know their left from their right. It’s unquestionable and I am not wedded to them.
I belong to no ones agenda.
Apart from my own.
But then there’s the SNP. The pretend socialist capitalist republican royalists.
They say anything but the reality is they couldn’t give a fig about the poor. They are too busy criminalising us all.
They are nazis. They are horrors.
That they have no credible opposition is a stain on all of us.
What a cluster errrr feck.
But we get what we deserve I’m afraid.
“No Huns in Europe”was always one of my favourite jungle songs
We never got to ding it for long during them days, but food while it lasted.
Ditto the jingle bells song about new years day. Loved it!
Anyway. I am away to read a wonderful book called ‘Lonesome Dove’ by Larry McMurty. My late fatiiher always said I should read it. I never did, at the time.
You don’t. Do you?
30 years on from the first time he told me to give that book a look, I tip my hat!
NegAnon2
00:40 on
25 July, 2015
Turkeybhoy. Didn’t you see my post the other day?
You know.
The one is response to your statement where you said you can’t live with arseholes?
I said.
How can you you therefore live with yourself?
Woooooossshhhh.
Went over you head didn’t it?
Diddumss.
What is your problem been good talking about CELTIC and you post this
jeremy kyle cfc
Putin meets with Blatter today.
A new soviet / nazi pact.
Guys, offer open to everyone.
Bring down Sky.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hTWKbfoikeg
Respect the Brave posters.
All Top Celtic Men.
Art ofWar
you get email?
I certainly ain’t a Smithsonian , Thank the Lord. The Smiths were guid though.
is the blog broke
Neg … Blair/Murphy .. The Iraq war .. How many civilians died, are still dying? There’s only one party with blood on its hands ..
Think what you’re saying .. It’s horrific what the Nazis did .. To compare a party who objected to the Iraq war, a party who wants rid on weapons of mass destruction ( remember them scattered all over Iraq? ) is perverse, and you know it is.
Beddy bawz
weeminger
20:48 on 24 July, 2015
Anyways kids to put to sleep and games to play. Offski.
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Hi weeminger,
I couldn’t help but notice this post, being an OAP gamer myself. Do you play FPS games with comms etc?
Wan mair for JJ
Thanks for all the excellent stuff you put up on CQN and links to the whole catalogues of Dance music era’s.
Sorry for the low quality audio in the above. ;))
Pure.csc
Careful With That Tax, Moonbeams,
TBH, I don’t think you are that careful.
Elvis my Mums Favourite singer.
stringer bell
HH to the PRC!!!
Jamesgang
jamesgang,
High Tower, Keep on being a Loving Legend, @ the corner.
So many people are struggling with so many things.
HH
Petec
I’ll do my best pal.
CQN is my bastion of happiness and stability at times.
See you on Wed I hope.
KTF
Night.
HH jamesgang
jamesgang,
I will be last minute because of work, Ronny wants us all there.
Not sure where I’m gonnae be sitting yet. The wee Laddie will be going from EK himself again, I have nae worries noo that he went himself last season. ;))
BIG jamesgang
Was that forty sleeps
heard alot about you pal will meet u at said corner.
cant miss u by all a counts
Careful with that tax. Blair really screwed up that Iraq war thing eh?
So you use that to excuse the inexcusable?
Bizarre.
Bizarre bizarre bizarre.
Is that all you’ve got?
Sad old excuses from sad old dicks to ignore current dicks?
Is that it?
Vote SNP cow Blair crewed it up.
Vote racism. Vote nazi?
Did you all check your brains in at the polling station at the referendum?
petec
01:25 on
25 July, 2015
Careful With That Tax, Moonbeams,
TBH, I don’t think you are that careful.
Elvis my Mums Favourite singer.
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Your mum had excellent taste,Pete.
She,like me,was probably sad to see his decline and fall.
Early Elvis was more of a sensation than the arrival of the Beatles.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eGaXbRqZOAs
Affoot,pal.
Maggie McGill….
Thanks for that wonderful blast from the past…. Got me delving into musical past…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kBX0K9nxPc&sns=em
macjay1 for Neil Lennon,
I nearly killed her when I arrived on the scene, I was a horroble wee kid, even thought it was funny to pour flour all over ma wee brother who was only very young, apparently she ran out the house because I had done that.
All before going to school.
You know what, she still makes excuses for me today, when there is no need. Back then my hearing was a problem, I couldn’t hear.
The Greatest of things though is, and this is monumental to me. Aidan totally respects his Granda and his Gran, a lot mair than me. You have no idea, how powerful that is, to me.
Keep on fighting hard macjay1. I love guys like yerself and Neg, Bobby and Kev. Kitalba and so many more, I loved philvisreturns so much is was freaky, Marchisio, Jobo, HT, the list is endless, I love pedrocara almost as much as his nutteristique Brother, most of all, I love my Mother.
Marchisio the FFM dude not the inferior player, well he wis good, just so much mair to FFM.
NegAnon
Personally, for many years I have enjoyed you posting a perspective that IMO was not only relevant but an essential ballast to keep the Good Ship CQN grounded and also relevant….
But SNP as Nazis??? Are you having a laugh?
The SNP may be many bad things in a political planet of selfish nastiness… But for the moment they are the (yes, probably erroneously) Hope that a newly informed politically aware electorate in Scotland are engaged with. If they fail to deliver there will be a Day of Reckoning… Eventually.
My visits home have been marked by the extent of informed political debate among Scots. I will be back again in August and look forward to hearing more…. Interesting Times.
PJBhoynyc,
What are your feelings about the upcoming season.
Are we on the cusp of something special?
NegAnon2
01:47 on
25 July, 2015
Again you look for a response..
Of the argumentative section. wats up with you.
CELTIC blog ?
are you going to the game tomorrow. i am with my three child season tickets.
but still meet you for a beer
Chill oot
butsybhoy,
I’m sure Neg is as hardcore a Celt as your good self.
petec
02:09 on 25 July, 2015
PJBhoynyc,
What are your feelings about the upcoming season.
Are we on the cusp of something special?
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I believe every season is something special….
But I do believe that the next two to three seasons could be something extraordinarily special.
PJBhoynyc,
I am getting that feeling myself, especially with the shocking wages being paid to footballers now.
The Support has to be Supported for it all to take shape.
The connection between the Support and the Players will let us move any mountain without any Shaman.
primalscream.csc
petec
i am for free speech (sorry that’s me lurking with drinks assist )
but we are for the CELTS