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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You take the hun out of hunland but you cant take hunland out of the hun!!!! H H
hmmm think we might be a chance of getting jason denayer back after his showing tonight against real madrid in melbourne,hes no chance of getting a regular spot for man city any time soon
weeminger
16:10 on 24 July, 2015
Yep, I see where you’re coming from now.
Tansbell
Seen the game
He was well off the pace but its experience as well & hopefully he will grow
I cancelled what left I had of Sky recently – I only had the basic package + Sky Atlantic because Mrs SS likes Game of Thrones. It’s now finished and the next series will be available through other means (Art of War).
They invited my to complete a survey and left an open goal when they allowed my to type “any other comments”.
So I gave them this:
“Had I still been subscribing to the full SKY package as I used to, I would still be cancelling SKY and especially SKY SPORTS due to the imbalance of money that SKY provide to the EPL compared to the SPFL. But more due to the anti-Celtic bias in the commentary and reporting of all things Celtic. The sycophantic interview by Jim White of Dave King being the most recent example. It was more like a sales drive for season tickets.
Until SKY stop using the term “Old Firm” I will not be subscribing to any SKY channels via SKY.”
Feel much better now.
fleagle1888 15:16 on 24 July, 2015………..
Could you not have made the ‘off’ last week???????????
As for twists n turns grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!!
Regards & Hail Hail
TBM
hebcelt
15:44 on
24 July, 2015
Listening to Jimmy Docherty – the celeb pig farmer – on Radio 2. He sells a beer called “The Same Again”, what a great name for an alcoholic drink. hichictic csc. H H Hebcel
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I’ve always fancied calling an alcoholic beverage “Responsibly”.
Every advert for alcohol always ends with “Please drink responsibly”. Free advertising…
Jamesgang
No big fella, the guy arrested at the airport was arrested for an offence committed here.
Hamiltontim
15:32 on
24 July, 2015
mike in toronto
Wee point Mike, you can’t be charged under OBaF Act when supporting your team outside of Scotland.
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Aye ye kin:
“10Sections 1(1) and 6(1): offences outside Scotland
(1)As well as applying to anything done in Scotland by any person, section 1(1) also applies to anything done outside Scotland by a person who is habitually resident in Scotland.
(3)Where an offence under section 1(1)….. is committed outside Scotland, the person committing the offence may be prosecuted, tried and punished for the offence—
(a)in any sheriff court district in which the person is apprehended or in custody, or
(b)in such sheriff court district as the Lord Advocate may direct,as if the offence had been committed in that district (and the offence is, for all purposes incidental to or consequential on the trial and punishment, deemed to have been committed in that district).”
Someone is going to try to educate Kirk Broadfoot? Good luck with that.
You go away for a few days and the whole damned world goes crazy
RWE
15:42 on
24 July, 2015
An Tearmann @ 15.11
That shirt with that logo looks great.
Now why don’t the club offer that logo on shirts if we don’t want to have the Cider man’s name.
HH
re the badge.it was a cracking strip eh and a good move to promote the foundation due to advertising restrictions.I take it it would cost a few bucks if you or i wanted to replace the drinks conglomerate and it is an idea to suggest this next time i am at the shop.
hope all is good with you in Amurka :-)) made me think of U2’s bullet the blue sky for some reason,its ending maybe.
HH
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have a great night Celts
:-)
HH
Gordon_J backing Neil Lennon
16:44 on
24 July, 2015
Someone is going to try to educate Kirk Broadfoot? Good luck with that.
You go away for a few days and the whole damned world goes crazy
its a difficult and sad one Gordon
What came first Kirk your hatred or your ignorance.?
HH
I am delighted to confirm that Aberdour has been bathed in warm sunshine all day. 40-odd golfers resplendent in every shade of green. A wonderful sight. Mostly.
I see a number of posts on here today about Police Scotland and their absolute power in determining what is “offensive”.
The Airdrie and Coatbridge Advertiser ran a story last week reporting on how a woman in her early 50s was driving through Greengairs and got caught behind the orange walk on Saturday 11 July.
She drove past the marching bigots and shouted at them as she did so. The paper did not report precisely what she shouted but from the context I understand that reference might have been made to a certain fruit.
Unbelievably plod charged her with a “sectarian hate crime.” So let me get this clear in my head:- at taxpayers expense, and causing much disruption, orange (dis)order bigots marched through the streets playing tunes that talk of being up to their knees in fenian blood etc. This is all facilitated and enabled by the council and Police Scotland.
Yet it is innocent people obstructed from going about their daily business by these waddling bigots who are done for “sectarian hate crimes.” How can objecting to people singing about being up to their knees in fenian blood make you guilty of a hate crime?
Police Scotland is an out-of-control organisation with serious problems as is evident from media coverage of a number of incidents recently. Giving such an organisation`s officers carte blanche to decide what is offensive – as the Offensive Behaviour Act does – is an act of complete stupidity.
Stubbsy an FFin’ bad yin:
“If Allan is indeed coming to us in this window, does anyone think Stubbs might play him out of spite tomorrow so that he becomes cup tied?”
monaghan1900
Now that’s a strange one as the legislation was only intended to be addressing regulation football matches within Scotland.
I wonder if the point you highlighted is regarding the ‘offensive communications’ element of the Act?
Certainly as far as I’m aware nobody has been arrested for any offence outside of Scotland.
Offski again!
Trying to educate the Broadfeet of this world is like trying to teach a pig not to grunt.
Beat the bassas stubbsy. Make it a moot point!
HH jamesgang
HT versus corkcelt ref obaf
I’m now as confused as Mrs Doyle was when father Jessup was locked inside father jack’s dirty laundry basket!
HH jamesgang
15.05
Leftclicktic
That is great news.
TT
This Qarabag mob we’re playing on Wednesday sound like a half decent team. Hopefully a few fringe players get a run about tomorrow.
Scott Allan ready to quit football if he doesn’t get his dream move to Ibrox:
https://raillydecord.wordpress.com/2015/07/24/scott-allan-in-bits-over-hibs-rejection-of-second-rangers-bid/
The maestro72
I agree, there is no way we can lower our guard or lose our sense of urgency.
This game on Wednesday has got to be approached with the right mindset and determination.
jamesgang @16.15
Not buying it. In fact it’s a worser ole lie than the original a bit like when Lynsey Sharp tried her embarrassing cover up.
TBM,
what happened last week ? :s
fleagle1888
Bsr
I think the ‘for sale’ sign could well be up for a while!
HH jamesgang
“The Petrofac cup is just a pre season game”
Mark Warburton
GetYourExcusesInEarly csc
Hamiltontim
16:54 on
24 July, 2015
I wonder if the point you highlighted is regarding the ‘offensive communications’ element of the Act?
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Applies to both elements. I had not included the offensive communications aspect in the piece of legislation I quoted.
HH
Ee-lev-hen, to-geth-her, sev-hen.
wtf is it with Edinburgh airport announcements?
Is there a new Scottish accent been formed here or what?
Social climbing madness.
Is it deliberate?
Kirk’s the FFin’ man:
“IMO that rhat mclean should be facing a ban, not Broadfoot.”
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“And isn’t it a real puzzle that big Kirk is in soapy for doing what the authorities should have done some time ago with this bog rhat instead of sh***ing themselves about the feelings of a few terrorist sympathising lowlife?”
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“Why should this wee p[erson] have his rights protected and Broadfoot does not? Well done Kirk and i hope many uk citizens stick up for you.”
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“So let me get this straight? Abusing someone for the religion OF THEIR CHOOSEN and having a dig at an IRA glorifying rhat is worth a bigger punishment than racial abuse?”
[Doesn’t look to be particularly ‘straight’ Sammy.]
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“If this is true…then utter, utter, major respect Mr Broadfoot.”
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“Hey mclean i have some news for you, you are a bead rattiling ,tarrier f%^& pig.”
[This from the site run by STV’s go to man on all things Sevco.]
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“Big Kirk a real bluenose and one of us, copped some sh*t from some of the FF Maradona’s in here.”
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“When you see the England manager having to make a grovelling apology to the IRA and its supporters you know the games a bogey and we have been fecked over!
Is there no good people with a sense of what’s right and what’s wrong in this country anymore do Fenians have control of everything?”
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“Broadfoot should get knighted for trying to protect the good name of our war dead and our sovereignty”
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“Considering the way the FA have been in handling anything to do with the Irish and the National team, for example, one has to wonder seeing big Kirks punishment what’s the philosophy down there…?”
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“This is totally out of line and shows what we are now all up against in this country. really messed up times”
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” I would have expected this from the SFA but in England.
Games well and truly over. We lost.”
Well done the FA
Some good stuff on CQN today.
Reckon it’s cos all the troublemakers are in Aberdour gowfing or swallying! :-)
Met another fine CQN’er today and another wee android box dispatched to a good home.
Is the bar open yet?
art of war
Im interested in buying one of these boxes I had a look on Amazon and there is a lot to chose from,may I ask what box should i buy and with what preloaded?
Dessbhoy- where are you based?
Sorry. Dessybhoy.
I like Glasgow Celtic Football team, it’s good.
Art of war
ML1
I see the unofficial spokesman for the Celtic support, Thompson Twin, was up to his old tricks again earlier… the more things change…
HH