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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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  1. bournesouprecipe on

    glendalys

     

     

    Their hurt is a world record

     

     

    garygillespies

     

     

    Me too, also. It should actually be an organised protest.

  2. Stairheedrammy on

    Dessybhoy, sorry about the delay in getting back to you. Watching hunnery of channels right now. Plugged it in and clicked on the menu. Easy as pie. It has everything you could ask for.

  5. weeminger on

    Neganon2 – I’m also a wee bit tired of all SNP supporters being blamed for those few idiots. Imagine if one of them is also a Celtic fan. Is everybody here to be held guilty also?

  11. ThompsonTwin on

    Weeminger – you are one of the minging clique of SNP fundamentalists who have polluted the fringes of our wonderful Celtic support.

     

     

    Just as the liar Sheridan and his Solidarity lakies are now spreading their nonsensical poison within the SNP (hell mend them), so we have our own cancer trying to destroy the traditional and fair-minded Celtic support.

     

     

    Neither Findlay and her rag-bag, nor, the Militant Tendency sediment, who see everything either through an Ibrox, or SNP prism, and who pour their illiterate utterances on here, will ever be allowed by the overwhelming majority of Celtic fans, to inflict damage on our beloved club.

  14. jamesgang on

    thompsontwin

     

     

    20:58 on 24 July, 2015

     

    Weeminger – you are one of the minging clique of SNP fundamentalists who have polluted the fringes of our wonderful Celtic support.

     

     

    ——

     

     

    Errr

     

     

    Naw you’re not! Step away fae the windae ledge!

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  16. Margaret McGill on

    Paul67

     

    CQN Was/is a wonderful vehicle for the truth about Celtic in Scotland. It was long overdue. It has been pivotal in the dissemination of information on a scale hitherto unknown in Hundom. I still love CQN and have always as you know. To stay alive one must continuously evolve. However, I hope you interpret my criticisms in a positive way.

     

     

    1. It seems ” too cap in hand to the board” in terms of financial justification in particular. In retrospect has even been labelled a board mouthpiece.

     

    2. It dismisses the OF symbolically only and not in terms of financial justification in particular

     

    3. Commentaries avoid details on the 5 way agreement and resolution 12

     

    4. Should cooperate more with other Celtic blogs in a more integrated cloud structure

     

    5. Indulges the nostalgic pub crawlers too much. Maybe time for a new format.

     

    Best Regards

     

    Maggie McGill

  18. bigshuggy on

    Malta are ranked 158 on the Fifa list, England 9, yet West Ham scraped through on penalties v Bikikara.

     

    Iceland are tanked 24, 5 places better than Scotland, so our result was excellent. Azerbaijan are ranked 108.

     

    Nigeria are 47, and Effe has been their regular right back for some time. Would have no qualms about using him there.Thought he did well on Wednesday when he came on for Lustig

     

     

    HH

  24. El Madrigal on

    Remember making this point when we drew Karagandy and haven’t heard anybody else make it, which probably means it’s really obvious but…

     

     

    We have to fly over 3000 miles to Baku to play Qarabag.

     

    This is bad. Jetlag yada yada.

     

     

    However, Qarabag have to fly over 3000 miles to Glasgow.

     

    So we’re all square?

     

     

    But Celtic surely have an advantage by playing the first leg at home as obviously during the second leg Qarabag will have flown 3000 miles more than us and will therefore be cream crackered.

     

     

    And we’ll be safely through to the next round by the time we have to fly home.

     

     

    As I said it’s a pretty obvious fact but sometimes the meeja make it out like all Celtic’s opponents teleport to games while we are the only team to slum it up in the sky.

  29. jamesgang on

    butsybhoy

     

     

    21:13 on 24 July, 2015

     

    Art of war

     

     

    Can you deal me in with one of the wee boxes.

     

     

    Cheers

     

     

    ——-

     

     

    AoW

     

     

    What’s the script when you’ve got a less than rapid internet connection?

     

    We’re too slow for the most rapid BT (not Blantyretim!!) connection.

     

     

    HH jamesgang

  32. the glorious balance sheet on

    El madrigal

     

     

    Fair point. Also another good point that I saw Ronny Deila make on the TV tonight- we have an advantage over the 2 ties in terms of body clock. The home game v qarabag will be played from 1145pm to 0130 Baku time but the game in Baku is 945pm local time, 5.45pm Celtic park time.

     

     

    So in theory the qarabag players body clock gets messed around more than ours.

     

     

    I think this helped us v Karagandy 2 years ago.

  33. bournesouprecipe on

    El Madrigal

     

     

    The change in format where the seeded side are at home first, is a massive advantage to us.

     

     

    The downside is ticket sales, against ‘unknowns’ – when we get to the Inter Milan’s the Celtic glory hunters fill the stadium.

  35. bankiebhoy1 on

    ” I’m the edgy harbinger of the future,

     

    the Psychedelic Furs of the ‘jaw-jaw’ brigada……

     

    ………..a sentient sentry of the cognoscenti. Hear my portentous, carefully, considered words and pay attention……..

     

    Cheers!…………

     

    ………You’re welcome!”

  36. Jimmynotpaul on

    Mike in Toronto.

     

    Just managed to log on after a long day and you have put up a link to Sam Cooke. Thank you.

     

    Great singer who also played his part in the American civil rights movement. A true legend. Although in his earlier gospel days, he was just viewed as a good singer, I would have loved to have heard the ones who were deemed better than him. Although as they didn’t cross over to” the devils music” we will most likely never hear them.

  37. butsybhoy on

    jamesgang

     

    21:18 on

     

    24 July, 2015

     

     

    That my dear friend is the wife’s department?

     

     

    Sky internet

     

     

    HH

  40. Jungle Jim Hot Smoked on

    El Madrigal

     

    Good point. I think the reason it is seldom mentioned is that negativity is more common than positivity in the news, the Media and even on CQN !

     

     

    BSR

     

     

    The downside is ticket sales, against ‘unknowns’

     

     

    Stjarnan were unknowns and nearly 50,000 turned up.

     

     

    Liked your `latest from Aberdour` 0:-)

     

     

    JJ

  41. jamesgang on

    butsybhoy

     

     

    As in she works in this dept? Or you say ‘darling! Help!’ Whenever you struggle with the remote???!!????

     

     

    HH jamesgang

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