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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Watch as angry protesters chase Scotland’s only Tory MP out of town after he turned up to open a FOOD BANK
13:25, 24 JULY 2015
BY DAVID TAYLOR
SECRETARY of State for Scotland David Mundell was in Dumfries to launch the Trussell Trust food bank this morning when he was greeted by a 150-strong crowd.
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ANGRY protestors chased Scotland’s only Conservative MP out of town after he turned up to open a food bank.
Protestors shouted “Shame on you” and screamed at Scottish Secretary David Mundell after he sneaked out the back door of the Trussell Trust-operated facility in the Dumfries and Galloway town.
They surrounded the white Ford Focus motor he was in, which had to slowly edge its way through the raging mob with the help of a police escort.
People banged on the windows and at first refused to let the vehicle move, until four uniformed police officers arrived to part the crowd.
The Tory toff and MP for Dumfriesshire, Clydesdale and Tweeddale has previously questioned claims of a link between food bank use and his party’s welfare reforms.
Who came up with this nugget.Another example of how MPs are just a tad removed from the realities of life..My jaw dropped when I read this.
jmccormick
I get what you mean, but I’m sure a few Hibs games will be in there too, it’s as I said the WATP get what they want, but not for long I’m predicting.
Turkeybhoy
Mob rule.
Ronny’s call to the Celtic support…http://www.cqnmagazine.com/?p=6583
tonydonnelly67
I hope you are right, but the evidence suggests otherwise. The predicted rise to the top has been thwarted twice, firstly by the SFL chairmen refusing to bow down then the botched resource management of Super Sally. They are now in need of a leg up again, this time I fear the Blazers and MSM will get their way……its for all our benefits, don’t you know?
Macjay,
Most likely students and middle class lefties. They also tried to silence Farage. Hunnish behaviour.
Debate on here ref who is a Nazi…………………………
Tom Holland @holland_tom
Was Edward VIII a Nazi, asks @guywalters. Pretty much, seems to be the answer: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3173871/Was-Queen-s-uncle-Edward-VIII-Nazi.html
Simon Barrow @simonbarrow
Billion dollar bank fraud in Moldova and 20,000 opaque British corporations: details from Richard Smith & @Ian_Fraser http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2015/06/the-bank-fraud-in-moldova-and-20000-opaque-british-corporations.html …
They bankers sure have learned their lesson……………………..
Have a good day CQN
Have read the usual myth regarding New Rangers tapping up Scott Allan being the same as how we went about our business vis~a~vis GMS.
Beware below is a Daily Record report of the transaction….
Celtic win race for Gary Mackay-Steven as Dundee United winger signs pre-contract deal with Hoops
11:54, 16 JANUARY 2015 BY RECORD SPORT ONLINE
THE 24-year-old will move to Parkhead in the summer unless a fee can be agreed between the two clubs to complete the deal this month.
DUNDEE UNITED ace Gary Mackay-Steven has signed a pre-contract agreement with Celtic and he will join the Scottish champions this summer, the Parkhead club have announced.
The 24-year-old made his first-team debut for United in July 2011, and he has gone on to make almost 130 appearances for the Tannadice side, scoring 27 goals.
He has also been capped by Scotland.
Hoops manager Ronny Deila spoke on Thursday of his interest in the player.
He said: “He is a player we have been looking at for a long time.”
Ronny Deila announced his interest in GMS when the pre-contract was pretty much done and dusted.
He states that Celtic had been interested for a long time, yet we did not tap him up to get him cheap and unsettle the player six months beforehand.
Once the pre-contract agreement was signed, all above board and under the radar, we negotiated in good faith and Dundee United got a fair price for a player they would loose in 5 months time.
He was also Cup tied, of course Dundee United’s lose was our gain. But we did not try to unsettle a player before a Cup tie, merely did January window transfer business like any other well run Club. None of this ones as bad as the other nonsense, it’s not close to comparable.
Hail Hail
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.
“Went over my head”?.
Was that meant to be a witty,cutting remark?.Like all bores,you seem to have no grasp of humour.After I posted about you last night,you proved my point with another couple of political rants.Its all you have.No doubt we will get more in the coming days.
Somebody once said”It was like being savaged by a dead sheep”.Sums up your retort.
Keep on boring.
Captain Beefheart “most likely students and middle class lefties”, is that the same as “on the balance of probability” – now where have we heard that before?? H H Hebcelt
Are Celtic still the only club in Scotland to have been fined for poaching someone ( Tommy Burns) ? In the Scottish game ?
FTSFA and their MasonicCabal
Oh Good morning Feloow Celtic Fans, CQN Coarner at 2.30 for a wee chat :-)
Hail Hail
‘Celtic must step up’- Charlie Mulgrew
http://www.cqnmagazine.com/?p=6580
lionroars67
08:37 on 25 July, 2015
Your comment shouldn’t offend Ronny supporters, since there can be many permutations in any team …. HH
Looking at bacon in Pender’s butcher in Coatbridge .
They have Ayrshire gigot .
I think they got g mixed up with b …
Thunder road.
It’s still raining.
Great!
HH!!
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
09:19 on
25 July, 2015
Turkeybhoy
Mob rule.
In my Labour days ,I would have been among them,with a fair chance of being huckled.
Good Morning!
Apparently it is a truly LANDMARK day in the history of football…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/07/25/stop-the-universe/
And here’s a little something I wrote about Sevco and Sports Direct…
https://theclumpany.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/sports-indirect/
Have a great weekend!
jmccormick
09:27 on 25 July, 2015
Spin is Spin, and when they step onto the park, the shoite will rise to the top ……. Hahahaha
18 year ago today this great man signed
http://youtu.be/LMt_vCidSsA
Spent three hours shopping in Marmaras yesterday with Mrs Prestonpans and made an effort to see count any shop that sold a zombie top. Counted four out of hundreds of shops!
Marmaras fake shops need a strong rangers……..
Now there’s an idea if Allen from Hibs is oh so keen to signs with thems,
why doesent HE sign a pre season contract with thems??
English eyes on Stokes….http://www.cqnmagazine.com/?p=6586
Ok, away to see how much more I can spend at the Vet on wee Shug :-)
Hail hail
TD67 he can’t do that until Jan16. H H Hebcelt
cowiebhoy @ 09:39,
“Are Celtic still the only club in Scotland to have been fined for poaching someone….
I can’t think of any others. By the looks of thing Mr Warburton believes that New Rangers should be allowed to ride roughshod over rules, let alone common courtesies….
“We have to look after Rangers Football Club in everything we do. That selfish approach for any successful business, let alone football, is looking after number one so to speak.”
Well nice quote Mr Warburton, but Mr Deila is looking after number one and with a lot more class than you.
Hail Hail
prestonpans bhoys
09:48 on
25 July, 2015
Spent three hours shopping in Marmaras yesterday with Mrs Prestonpans and made an effort to see count any shop that sold a zombie top. Counted four out of hundreds of shops!
Marmaras fake shops need a strong rangers…
The quality of the Celtic tops up here in Kusadasi is probably better than the real ones.Perfect copy,been washed a dozen times.Perfect.
No Sevco strips on display anywhere here.
Got my hoops for 30 Lira,around £7.50.
rats … Christie’s the baker is shut … must be the fair
ah well … it’ll be Tommy Tango’s for Morton’s rolls then
Maestro
09:46
If we could fine another gem like him….
HH
find, even.
It’s a big day, who have we got in the Petrofac Cup again?
Oh, that’s right …
Turkeybhoy,
That was the price I was quoted and they did look good! However had my fingers burnt before although admittedly in Greece
PhilBhoy in Crete.
Are you around?
Captain Beefheart
09:27 on
25 July, 2015
Macjay,
Most likely students and middle class lefties. They also tried to silence Farage. Hunnish behaviour.
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It`s just a mob,whatever it`s politics.
Right,left or centre.
I`m still surprised they got away with it.
Hi can anyone help, I’m in cala millor in Majorca, looking Irish, Celtic bar that shows Celtic games can’t find anything as full of German pubs. I blame my partner for booking so late on as missing wed and especially next sat
Turkeybhoy
09:42 on
25 July, 2015
macjay1 for Neil Lennon
09:19 on
25 July, 2015
Turkeybhoy
Mob rule.
In my Labour days ,I would have been among them,with a fair chance of being huckled.
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But you probably wouldn`t have been able to halt proceedings.
That`s what I find shocking.