A row broke out on twitter last night as the CQN website and Roy Greenslade of the Guardian accused each other of telling fibbers. Or was it the paper itself.
I kind of lost interest, especially when a visit to CQN prompted an advert for the Queens birthday lunch to appear on my screen. At which point i decided I couldn’t trust anybody any more and watched Graham Norton instead, at which point I decided there wasn’t any body worth watching or listening to anywhere ever again.
Although there was a point of sorts to be emphasised here, in that if CQN could carry an advert for old Lizzie, then surely the Guardian could carry one drawing attention to the biggest sports scandal in world history?
The row escalated fairly quickly, and to be honest I’ve no idea where to start, suffice to say court threats were issued as the two delicate souls on either side worried more about who sent what to who, who lied about what and what language it was in.
Nothing compared to the language I was considering using.
In the end, it sort of transpired that someone else might have sent something in to confuse everyone and thats when even Graham norton started to make sense. Well, a little bit, anyway.
Anyhoo, lets try to make sense of it all;
Actually, lets not.
Cutting to the chase, the ad was refused for whatever reason. It doesn’t matter, nobody reads the Guardian any more anyway, so thats no big loss.
What has happened, when you stand back and look at it, is that the lads have got their money back and the advert is being talked about everywhere.
Sounds like a result to me.
The next step should be to try to place the advert in every Scottish newspaper.
One of them might accept it. One of them might even give a reason as to why they can’t accept it.
More importantly, someone working for one of the papers who doesn’t accept it might let us know why, on the side like, with a wee fly email.
Roy Greenslade, the journalist who is no longer on the CQN christmas card list, had tried to defend his papers position.. and boy did he take a kicking. He claimed the ad was sent to the Guardian in French-I know, I know-whilst CQN maintained that that was merely a designers copy to give some idea of what it would look like. Quite why they wouldn’t send the ad in a ready to use form is a little puzzling, but they would have had their reasons.
The Guardian dropped the ad after translating it and realising that it didn’t conform to their standards-another shock, as I always figured the MSM didn’t have any standards.
Still with me ? Don’t worry, you can skip to the funny photos if you want.
So, CQN maintain they are correct in what they say-the bit about the French copy merely being used to show what the real one would look like, as opposed to sending the real one to show what the real one would look like, and Greenslade then sent out a second retort, in English, so that everyone would understand that this was for real, and not what his reply would look like when he’d finished it:
Further to my posting this morning, “Why the Guardian rejected an advert about Scottish football”, I have noted on Twitter that a couple of hundred people think I’m guilty of lazy journalism, talking through my head, being a lickspittle, writing lies and being naive.
Among the bones of contention is one that calls into question the veracity of my report that the Guardian was originally sent the advert in French.
So let me state for the record that I have seen the advert sent to the Guardian. It is clearly in French and I reproduce a portion of it as proof.
I restate: the copy for this advertisement arrived at the Guardian in the French language. And there was lots of it too, not just the line I have displayed.
I take on board the fact that I may not have explained the background to this matter as well as I might. But it’s tough to grasp the ins and outs of the dispute.
However, please be assured that I agree that something stinks in terms of Scottish football governance and an independent investigation is required (quite probably by a journalist or journalists drawn from outside Scotland).
Meanwhile, please accept my word, and that of Guardian News & Media, that what I have published is a true representation of what was sent to the newspaper.
But by then, as i said, I couldn’t be arsed with all the whinging any more.
As far as I can say, and this is the most recent update I can give, things are now getting “interesting” .
Well, that would make a pleasant fucking change.
If Celtic don’t make a statement soon, then I’m going to deduce that they aren’t going to make one and as far as I’m concerned they can stick their new manager and all the rest of the promises up their collective arses, because its beginning to stink of deflection.
Why am I sitting here typing about who sent what to who in what language when the only language we all want to hear should be an outright condemnation of all the shennanigans that went on, are going on and will no doubt continue to go on if soe=mething isn’t done about the cabal in power at Hampden.
The time for adverts, and pushing journalists who clearly aren’t interested is over.
It’s time now for unity, a show of strength and a reminder of who really runs Scottish football.
Join as many other clubs forums as you can-I’ll be doing it-and get the message out that the Resolution 12 issue, now in danger of sending the country en masse to watch Graham Norton, is about the SFA. and its lack of honesty, transparency and capability.
That should keep us busy until we take over the car park and storm the boardroom on july 23rd, before celebrating with a couple of beers at Malones.
Right, back at the ranch, and captain Scott Brown dropped a massive hint that he may well have been one of the players who undermined previous boss Ronny Deila. Either that or he’s got more faces than Big Ben.
The captain, well, one of several to wear the armband recently, spoke about his meeting with Brendan Rodgers and what they talked about during dinner… it’s called dinner in London, by the way. not tea. Which is for poor people in the north suffering from cholesterol.
It was a great meal. We sat down and chatted for a good couple of hours about the past and the future and what we’re looking to do and he was spot-on with everything.
‘It’s going to be exciting times. His ideas and philosophy are great and it’s going to help me and a lot of the lads in the changing room. I’m looking forward to it.
‘He spoke about a lot of things, such as responsibilities, talking on and off the park, bringing the lads as close together as possible, making sure we have a good team morale and that we work hard on the park.
‘The main thing is to get as fit as soon as possible for the Champions League qualifiers. We need to try and get through them to reach the Champions League as that is where this club deserves to be and hopefully we will there this season.’
‘It’s going to be good for us because he’s going to chop and change formations,’ added Brown.
‘We’re not just going to be one-dimensional so that will be something to keep everyone on their toes.’
So, our squad couldn’t fucking master one style of playing, but all of a sudden they’re going to master several ?
This coming from a guy who couldn’t master the art of passing a ball a few yards to a player wearing a distinctive hooped shirt to help spot him in a crowd ?
Ronny Deila did once, many months ago, tell me that he’d intrduce new systems when the players had mastered the one he was installing. Now, it may be as he couldn’t teach them that one down to his own inadequacies , for which he has paid the price, or it could be down to the players unwillingnes to conform, especially if there were a couple of doubters among the senior players, or it could be that the players are all thick as fuck and it was beyond them to listen and learn.
Brown took time to thank Pete Lawwell for bringing Rodgers in….
It’s a huge name for everyone and everyone will learn a lot from him and that’s what we wanted,’
Peter [Lawwell, chief executive] and the club have done really well to get him on board.
‘He’s managed huge clubs and almost won the league with Liverpool a couple of seasons back.
‘To have 13,000 fans come to the stadium to see him is something some clubs don’ t even get on matchdays and it shows how well-respected he is by the Celtic fans.’
We’ll see, though i have to say i’m a little less optimistic than i was a few days ago. The whole thing is beginning to look like the board have decided that we’ve got Brendan Rodgers, season books are now sold , so lets leave Resolution 12 to one side for a bit, shall we , lads ?
Serves me right for watching Graham Norton, I suppose.
The thing is, they still don’t get it.
The boards credibilty may have risen with the acquisition of a top class manager, although it appears that it was more Desmond than democracy.
A failure to act on and support Resolution 12 will be seen as a major kick in the teeth for fans, another example of how badly the support are treated, and how little their concerns are considered by those in the boardroom.
The goodwill built up over the last couple of weeks will disappear almost instantly should this issue continue to go without comment from the club.
You’ve got the email address. Point it out to them.
Lets make sure it gets interesting.
Over in France, the European Championships have started. And so have the England fans.
Can’t help but feel they remind me of someone else…
Though, as Cillian Sheridan pointed out on twitter, you do have to question the Irishness of this particular bar.
And a lass called Samantha McAvoy on twitter was probably glad she remembered to use the correct punctuation n this tweet, otherwise the hordes of darkness would have been upon her as they continue to try to ban the use of a particular word.
Hang on, she doesn’t look like she supports “rangers ” …she looks quite attractive.
One or two of them don’t scrub up quite so well.
Yesterdays caption competition was won with this effort
Dirty, filthy, fucking scumbag cunt SevCo fan turns his attention away from little boy snatching.
which combines satire and humour, but can I ask my Lennon CSC chum to refrain from such coarse language, and if he can’t do that can he send his subsequent entries to us in French ? Its the way to do things these days, we hear.
He’s normally such a quiet and polite chap as well.
Today, lets see what we can come up with for this one..only kidding by the way, don’t do it in French. Although myself and voodude can actually speak two languages it does work out at one each.
