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Saturday 28 June 2014

THE FILTH AND THE FURY

Yesterday I had the misfortune to read the most disgusting, insidious piece of so-called sports journalism ever in the Daily Record. Even Jabba at his most bigoted never wrote anything as bad as this. I'm referring, of course, to Gary Ralston's article on Celtic offering to share the 1914/15 league title with Hearts. It would be the height of condescension and patronisation for Celtic to do such a thing and would be an insult to all the football players that gave their lives in WWI. It implies that morally Hearts should have won that league; but the implications go much deeper than that.

First of all, Ralston is implying that the only reason Celtic won that season was because Hearts players joined up to fight in the Great War. Players from all teams did the same thing; Hearts was not the only team in Britain to lose players and it's a complete fabrication and injustice to make out that it was. I get the impression, though, that this is a dig at Celtic, rather than any kind of sympathy for Hearts. It's to give The Peeppul another excuse to shout 'tainted titles' and to deflect from their dead team's cheating.

Of course, one or two contributors to the forum brought up something that I've seen before: if Celtic can include titles won during WWI, then surely Rangers should have been allowed to count titles won during WWII? This is no doubt another bone of contention that Ralston wanted to stir up. It's entirely probable that Celtic will go on to surpass Rangers' record of 54 titles and this has got the agnivores worried. What better way to offset this than by adding another few to Rangers' tally? After all, Ralston makes it clear that Celtic only won during WWI by default so it's churlish, surely, to deny these war-time titles to the dead club!

The situation during WWII, however, was entirely different. Unlike in the First World War, the league system was abandoned and the teams got together to form temporary leagues. These are the ones that Rangers won and can hardly be counted as proper league titles. If anything, Rangers should have been ashamed that they took advantage of the war to actually build a team that could dominate the post-war years. It's common knowledge that Struth got most of his first team jobs in the shipyards so that they could still play; this is hardly something to brag about and it shows what a damned cheek Ralston has for implying anything untoward about Celtic's championship win in 1915.

A not so well-known fact about football during the Second World War is that Rangers actually fielded TWO teams in two separate leagues. Bob Crampsey described this as being "to their eternal credit" (Herald, 4-12-01) since "this alone made the North Eastern League possible and provided a platform for such as Aberdeen, Dundee United, Raith Rovers, East Fife, and Dunfermline for the rest of the war." On the contrary, I think it is to their eternal shame that, while other clubs struggled to put one team together, Struth was able to run two. It meant that Rangers was able to enjoy two league titles in one season, 1941/42, winning the Southern League and the North Eastern League! Scottish teams like Celtic, Hearts and Aberdeen were running at a loss during this period; I wonder if the same can be said about Rangers!

If Ralston was actually serious about his proposal then he should have contacted Celtic privately, instead of broadcasting it in a newspaper. As it is the author of 'The Gallant Pioneers' has just come across as a petty-minded agnivore, desperate to besmirch the name of Celtic because his zombie team looks like it might be heading back to the grave where it belongs.

I had to laugh at McMurdo, comparing the signing of Boyd and Miller, which sounds like an old music-hall act, to the return of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock in the Star Trek movies! No, really! This is honestly what he's saying. He says that Kirk and Spock were older in the movies but still able to vanquish aliens that challenged the Federation.

To be honest I'd have thought The Peeppul wouldn't have been too enamoured with Star Trek, which promoted tolerance and respect among different peoples; it had the first ever interracial kiss on US television. Surely that's not in the mindset of The Peeppul at all? I'd have thought they'd be more at home rooting for the Klingons: war-mongering, imperialist thugs with a superiority complex. Come to think of it, I wonder if Gene Roddenberry ever attended a Rangers match? He must have got the idea for the Klingons somewhere! As for Spock ever playing for Rangers, somehow I don't think so. The first time he got hit in the face with the ball and everybody caught sight of his green blood he'd have been out the door before you could say 'Illogical'. Still, Dr McCoy could put in an appearance, take a quick look at what passes for Rangers and say, "It's worse than that - they're dead, Jim!"

Boyd himself is vowing to score as many goals as he used to for the old club. It's entirely possible that he might well do. Bisto FC have been the recipients of the same sort of favours that Rangers used to get, so there should be plenty of penalties available for Boyd to build up the myth again of him being a 'goal-scoring machine'. And many a goalkeeper had to face two sets of studs sliding towards him, with the full weight of Boyd's bulk behind them, leaving him with the choice of either conceding a goal or having to have reconstructive facial surgery. The survival instinct kicked in every time and Boyd would waddle off to celebrate instead of being sent off for dangerous play. I fully expect more of the same.

The sheer desperation of the Bettertogetherers is evident in the Armed Forces Day being held at Stirling. Anybody that believes this has nothing to do with trying to overshadow the Bannockburn anniversary commemorations needs their head examined. What, precisely, does Stirling have to do with the British armed forces? I don't know of any barracks anywhere near and the castle, as far as I know, has never served as an army base. If you take Edinburgh, with the castle and the various barracks, past and present, in and around the city as well as the docks at Leith and the old airforce base at Turnhouse, the links with the armed forces is glaringly obvious. To my mind it's an absolute disgrace that this jingo-fest was allowed to even take place in Scotland on the same weekend as the Bannockburn commemorations, never mind a couple of miles along the road in Stirling.

A group of intrepid campaigners climbed the Finnieston Crane in Glasgow to display a banner saying, 'Resist Militarism.' This is reported in the Daily Record and, of course, brings the usual eat-the-breids out with the expected comments. "Don't they realize they can only protest without fear of being shot because of the freedom Soldiers have faught and died for?" (The atrocious spelling is his, by the way.) Right, so let's get this straight: all those men died so we can have the freedom to protest but we're not supposed to protest because those men died. So, really, they died for bugger all! I despair, I really do. I'd blame the schools if it wasn't for the fact that I worked in quite a few of them!

Meanwhile asbestos cement has been found near the Athlete's Village for the Commonwealth Games. It looks like it's been flytipped there. There's no danger, apparently, for the athletes but surely it would be better not to take any chances. As a precaution, the whole of the Games should be moved away from the East End of Glasgow, just in case there's any risk of asbestos fibres floating around. Celtic Park must now be considered a hazardous area and another venue will need to be found. Might I suggest Ibrox? Oh, wait...

Lastly, the Suarez incident shows how far football has fallen in these modern times. You'd never have got the Lisbon Lions carrying on like that - especially since all their teeth were in Ronnie Simpson's bunnet!



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Thursday 26 June 2014

THE BIG C

A massive boost arrived for the Bettertogetherers with the news that the Grand Orange Lodge has registered as a “permitted participant” with the Electoral Commission. A dejected Alex Salmond said today, "Well, that's it, the game's a-bogey. Everybody'll be voting 'No' in September." A massed march of mounted dinosaurs is planned for September 17th. Meanwhile a statement from Ibrox said, "Never mind referendums - buy some season tickets, ya tight-arsed bastards. Christ! It'd bae easier tryin' tae sell a book tae Monti!"

The Orange Lodge has a long tradition of backing 'No' votes. They campaigned against the Catholic Emancipation Act of 1829 and the Reform Act of 1832. They were also against extending the vote to the working classes in 1867, as well as giving the vote to women after the First World War. As you can see, they have nearly two-centuries worth of successful campaigning to inspire them!

Uber-ned Barry Ferguson was in the Daily Record yesterday saying how the Fat Penalty Taker would be a major asset to Bisto FC and would slot in well up front with the Cuprinol Man. Apparently he's lost a bit of weight and has been 'playing well' for Kilmarnock. I haven't seen any of his goals from last season but if they're anything like the ones he used to score for Rangers then they'll be dodgy to say the least. He always got away with absolute murder, going in on keepers with his studs showing, waddling in from offside positions etc. The fact that he achieved nothing in England shows how overrated he was. He couldn't get away with his crap down there and I remember seeing one match where he dived for a penalty and sat completely dumfounded when he didn't get it. Supposedly money's an issue but I'd imagine he'd jump at the chance to play out of Ibrox again, especially when he hears about the favours granted to the new team by our officials; it'll be just like old times!

When I read this story in the DR yesterday there were four comments. I tried to post something but wasn't allowed. A couple of hours later all the comments had been deleted and nobody was allowed to post anything else. It seems that nobody is allowed to say anything derogatory about Bisto FC. The comments were pretty anodyne but one person mentioned the fact that Boyd wouldn't be 'returning to Rangers' as Rangers no longer existed. That was probably what got the moderator all hot and bothered.

On the subject of the Daily Record forums, is the paper itself behind all these adverts for get-rich-quick schemes? Say something about Sevco or new clubs and your post disappears almost immediately and yet spam about earning ££££££££££££s on Google stay up all day and night. Either the paper's getting commission or these adverts actually originate from Central Quay. Maybe it's a new fundraising scheme cooked up at the top of the marble staircase!

McMurdo hasn't changed his blog and he still has his disciples going on about cheating in the beautiful game. Here's one viewpoint: "Suarez sums up football today and that the old adage ‘cheats never prosper’ is as dead as a dodo!" I wonder if he means teams swindling all their creditors and then trying to carry on as if nothing happened? Somehow I doubt it. And, of course, this being The Peeppul, bigotry is never far away. One clown had this to say about the Suarez incident: "Italian football has cheated the world for years. no sympathy for the romans!" And yet another sad bigot is accusing Samaras of diving to win that penalty! Haven't they got marches to go to?

The Daily Record, meanwhile, outdid itself yesterday in twisting a story to suit its 'NO' vote agenda. The Stagecoach Group, in its preliminary report, warned shareholders of potential changes that might affect the company. I notice the online article has been changed to balance things out a bit but yesterday all it focused on was that a 'YES' vote might involve some risk to the company. The headline screams out as if this is what the whole report was about and the article itself wasn't much better. As I've mentioned, the article has been changed now but it's too late. You've got to laugh when they go on about 'cybernats' and the like and then resort to twisted shite like this to frighten people into voting 'NO'.

Finally, that's a milestone reached. I've broken the hundred barrier with sales of Clash of the Agnivores! A big thanks to everyone that's bought it and hopefully my sales will continue to climb! If you haven't bought it yet, why be left out? Get in with the in-crowd and click on the book cover below.

P.S. A slight 'caveat emptor' here. Somebody has bought my book 'The Football Star.' Hopefully they weren't buying it thinking it was about football, although the cover should be a bit of a giveaway. It's the last book in a series of four science-fiction books for children. There's nothing wrong with enjoying a book meant for kids - I've read plenty, but check first that the book is what you think it is before buying!




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Wednesday 25 June 2014

THE REAL CORRUPTION

Keith Jackson has an interview in the Daily Record with the man supposedly behind Blue Pitch Holdings, Beirut lawyer Mazen Houssami. You really have to ask - is that it? Is that what all the secrecy's been about; a Lebanese lawyer? But then, lawyers usually represent somebody else so maybe the whole truth isn't out yet. Wouldn't it be hilarious if it turned out to be something to do with the PLO? That would go down well with The Peeppul!

According to Houssami, he's the one that sacked Charles Green and Imran Ahmad. That's a helluva lot of power for somebody that owns 6.14%! Like everybody else, he's desperate to distance himself from the ones that the Peeppul have come to hate. Jackson, however, can't help making sure the Big Lie is to the fore. He says that Houssami helped "to fund Charles Green’s £5.5million Ibrox takeover two years ago". Takeover? He didn't take over anything; he bought the assets in a shady deal in order to steal money from the creditors.

Meanwhile McMurdo and his disciples are banging on about corruption in football. You've got to laugh at the sheer brass neck of these clowns! I know it's hard to believe, but they're actually having a go at the referees as well! Extremely short memories these Peeppul have, eh?

As usual, these idiots fail to see where their arguments will ultimately lead. One of thems says, "It would take an earth shattering event to happen for all the corruption and blatant cheating to be stopped within the game football. The big problem is actually that it is ‘all about the money’ and that, unfortunately, is probably always going to be the case."

Weren't the efforts to get Green's new club into the SPL 'all about the money'? Wasn't the fact that Sevco got to jump the queue into Division 3 'all about the money'? What could be more corrupt than a team being judged by an organisation that has as its head a character that was closely bound up with the dead team and its cheating? This corruption was evident for all to see in the fiasco of the Nimmo-Smith inquiry, where corrupt individuals bent and twisted the rules to force Nimmo-Smith's hand.

There is also the little matter of the argument that they're all still following 'Rangers', the 'same team'. Who is it they always cite as evidence to prove their case? The very organisations that they are saying are corrupt! How many times have you heard them say that the SFA recognises their team as Rangers? How many times have you heard them say that UEFA recognises their team as Rangers? And yet they complain that these organisations, the SFA, the SPFL and UEFA, are all corrupt to the core. No wonder they're all so violent when they're carrying around all these conflicting ideas in their heads!

Stanley Baxter has come out on the side of 'Better Together', showing a complete lack of understanding of the issues involved. He says, "They don't know any better. It's got to do with these dreadful films they've made, anti-English films and that wretched Australian (Mel Gibson) ... Braveheart - it's not even correct historically." What the hell does he mean, "they don't know any better"? How patronising can you get? So really, what he's saying is that folk in Scotland are too thick to govern themselves; we need the English to oversee us as we can't be trusted. What a fucking cheek!

He goes on to say, "I could never have achieved that success north of the border if I'd stuck there. It wouldn't have happened." So the success he achieved in Scotland, including sell-out pantomimes, television shows etc counted for nothing? It's difficult to see exactly what he's on about; it's not as if he was in the same position as Billy Connolly of having to pretend to be a Partick Thistle supporter so as not to be a victim of bigotry. In other words; he's talking shite.

He also bangs on about anti-English racism, a favourite theme of the Better Together mob, saying, "Scots can deny it as much as they like, but I've seen a lot of anti-English sentiment expressed north of the border but never anti-Scots sentiments south of the border." He must be both as blind and deaf as Vincent Lunny, then. Didn't he see and hear all the anti-Scottish bile directed at Gordon Brown during the last election? Hasn't he heard all the guff about Scottish 'benefit junkies' living off the taxes of the hard-working English?

I knew lots of English people at university and I never encountered any of this mythical 'anti-Englsih' feeling. There was one type of English person that nobody, including many English folk themselves couldn't stand. I once went to an induction day to join the OTC, the Officers' Training Corps. This was in order to get more money, since you got paid for doing this stuff. Anyway, about two dozen of us were taken by bus to Dundee. All of the folk on the bus came from the south of England, apart from myself and the friend that I had persuaded to come with me.

This OTC unit was part of a Scottish regiment, I forget which one, but everyone that spoke to us was English, the officers, the private soldiers and, as I have said, the ones looking to join. The only Scottish person was a sergeant-major, who studiously kept his mouth shut. Throughout the morning we heard about the 'Jawks' in the army, whose stupidity and clumsiness was a constant source of concern. We were shown the standard weapon of the British Army, the SLR, which we were assured was foolproof, but not 'Jawk-proof'. I was extremely insulted at this and I think it showed as I was told that I hadn't been accepted. Rather hilariously when I asked why, I was told that that was 'classified'!

This was my first experience of 'White Settlers' in Scotland. I moved to Edinburgh after graduating and the place is full of this type of person. These are not representative of the vast majority of English people, but are part of a small group from the south of England, who still think that Britannia, or, rather, England, rules the waves. These are the kind of folk that will shout at a foreigner, thinking that everyone should understand God's own language. They're the ones that you'll find on a holiday abroad, congregating in English pubs and staying as far away from Johnny Foreigner as possible. They act the same in Scotland: they swan about as if they own the place and view the natives as creatures that are just there to serve them. It is this type that most Scottish people cannot stand. It has nothing to do with anti-English racism and everything to do with not wanting to be treated as a colony!

Stanley Baxter comes from an old-fashioned, middle-class, theatrical elite, who know nothing whatsoever about ordinary, working-class Scotland. Have a look at old sketches done by the likes of Baxter, Jimmy Logan, Rikki Fulton etc where they put on a working-class, Scottish accent. They speak nothing at all like real people do and seem to get their ideas of how ordinary folk speak, act and feel from the pages of the Sunday Post. Baxter has got no idea at all of what is going on in Scotland and is obviously just regurgitating what he is reading in the right-wing press.

Finally, Phil Mac Giolla Bhain says on his blog, "The failure of the mainstream media to adequately report the terminal collapse of Rangers is well documented . In fact there is a book about it in the shops now." You don't think he means 'Clash of the Agnivores' do you? I can't think of any other book on the subject, so he must. It's not a direct plug, but it's a plug nonetheless! Unfortunately, the book is not actually available in the shops. You need to get if from Amazon.



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Monday 23 June 2014

THE PEEPPUL'S STORY

No matter how they try to hide it, the dark side of Peeppuldum (is there a light side?) keeps crawling out for us to see. Take the Daily Record and its seemingly innocuous story about there not being enough cans of Buckfast to supply Glastonbury. I say seemingly innocuous because the mere mention of Buckfast is enough to get some self-righteous hun crawling out from under his sister to bang at the keyboard. Sure enough, one John Johnston, a regular contributor to DR forums, arrived right on cue:

"I find it astonishing that roman catholic monks who it is claimed have a social conscience should continue making and marketing this scourge of our youth, many of whom claim to be incapacitated by this firewater as they commit crimes they can remember nothing about".

I find it astonishing that anybody can be that thick. Take a walk into any prison and it'll be full of innocent men and women, who'll tell you that it 'wisnae their fault' they 'goat picked oan by the bizzies' or they were so drunk that they can't remember what they did. I suppose they should just get a wee pat on the head and told not to do it again?

Throughout history all manner of substances have been abused. Half of Victorian Britain was addicted to laudanum, while in the early 20th Century a novel alternative was found when there was no money for drink. A rubber hose from the gas mantle into a glass of milk or water, a quick scoosh of gas, gulp it down quickly and some state of inebriation could be reached. In my own lifetime I've seen folk sniffing glue, inhaling lighter fluid and cleaning products, while I knew one enterprising soul that managed to acquire strychnine and took a small pinch before going out of an evening. One character swore by half-a-dozen soluble aspirins dissolved in a glass of Harvey's Bristol Cream!

With all these DIY methods of getting smashed it seems churlish to pick on one product; but pick on it they do. The fact that it's made by Catholic monks gives some folk a good excuse for their bigotry, while masquerading under the banner of social conscience. When Helen Liddell went down this route, playing the Uncle Tim to try to appeal to the voters of Airdrie it was the first time I started to have reservations about the Labour Party. Surely she, and the rest of them, must realise that if the monks stopped making Buckfast then folk, as they always do, would move onto something else. Perhaps they would prefer them to be smoking crystal meth or injecting Krokodil?

The Daily Record also sees fit to tell us the 'story' behind the famous photograph of the razor-wielding thug attacking an older man on a crowded street. I always thought the older guy was reaching into his coat for a blade but it turns out that he was actually a police officer that had tried to arrest the ned. Anyway, the story goes that this character was a 'Loyalist' from Bridgeton, who had attacked somebody at a march protesting against British troops in Northern Ireland. The ex-cop recounting this tale (not the guy in the picture, by the way) says that it was naive of the council to allow the march. So there you have it: a thug runs amok with an open razor and it's all the fault of Republican marchers and the council! Hunbelievable!

Meanwhile the anti-Islamic organisation called Britain First is offering free classes in martial arts to the lunatics that belong to it. The advert for these 'Fight Clubs' says, “We feel this is a vital part of building a real movement for the future struggle to take back our country.” And it's not just Muslims that should feel threatened. The halfwit that runs this mob, Jim Dowson, is an Orangeman and a former member of the BNP, who lives in Belfast and gets involved in Unionist activities over there. I would imagine that 'taking back our country' probably envisages not only fighting against Muslims and one wonders what this shower would get up to in the event of a 'YES' vote in September.

Another militant, right-wing extremist, David Knowles, has been jailed for nine months for beating up his girlfriend. This character is a member of the Scottish Defence League, which is allied to the English version and are usually to be recognised by waving Union flags, wearing Rangers tops and trying to fight with Muslims. I had to laugh when some clown commented on the DR forum that he looked 'like a Celtic fan'. Obviously the huns have no sense of irony!

They guy is a frightening looking individual, with teeth like something out of a horror film; a zombie in fact! He's far scarier than the agnivores I've got on the front cover of my book! Speaking of which, most of you still haven't bought a copy - why not? Click on the photo of this ugly bastard to go to the details page on Amazon. (P.S. I see Amazon has reduced the price yet again for the paperback - it's only £5.22 now!)




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Friday 20 June 2014

ENGERLUND EXPECTS...

Does anybody else remember the run-up to the 2002 World Cup? Once it was discovered that Sweden was going to be in the same group as England the Daily Record ran a tongue-in-cheek campaign called 'Hands off Henrik' or 'Lay off Larsson' or something similar. They wanted other Scottish teams to go easy on him so that he'd be fit to score a bucketload against the 'Auld Enemy'. Different story this year. They're finding it hard to even criticise Clive Tyldsley, who usually comes out with his 'England expects...' bit. There's a wee, tiny bit of criticism against the pundits but none of the usual joy that the DR exhibits when all the English arrogance gets deflated. I wonder what's different about this year!

Meanwhile, another of McMurdo's disciples goes down the racial bigotry route: "Do I not like that imposter gerrard ! Bheggar tims should never captain England. Never Forgive. Never Forget." Somebody was saying the same the other day about Rooney but he managed to score a goal so all is forgiven I suppose. So let's get this straight, Rooney and Gerrard should not be playing for England because they're of Irish descent; presumably they should be playing for the Republic of Ireland. And yet when Aiden McGeady did just that he was called a 'traitor'. Even in the twisted, wee world of The Peeppul that makes no sense!

And the sad wee Belfast man is on again, linking to Football Tax Havens. It's worthwhile having a look at this nonsense and, as the guy himself says, why? Who the hell cares? Celtic haven't shafted shareholders, creditors or the tax man so why are these pathetic insects so obsessed?

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Maybe he'd be better asking how a whole club could be bought for a £1, or how Hughie Green got his big, Yorkshire hands on the assets of Rangers for five-and-a-half million quid and then had the ground valued at £30m! Some serious deflecting going on here, albeit of a desperate nature.

I see the vicious thug Sevcoite that beat up a number of girlfriends and threatened them with all manner of weapons has been sent down for life. I think it was only once that we saw him in his Bisto FC shirt, as well as his Nazi tattoos. I'm sure if this was a Celtic supporter they'd be constantly ramming pictures of him with his Celtic top on down our throats, as well as letting us know that he went to one of 'they' schools. His defence QC was, of course, Donald Findlay, who said, "It is quite clear that Mr Montguire has had a number of psychological problems from childhood" Oh, well that's alright, then, the man's obviously a victim. Maybe Findlay should have used the same kind of defence he used for the Kilwinning bombers and argued that the knives and samurai sword were all blunt!

And Bisto FC is living up to its name by getting another aboard the gravy train. Christian Nerlinger, who sounds like a character from The Simpsons, is being taken on as 'Chief Football Operations Officer.' I mean...what in the name of Christ is that? Apparently he's to 'address scouting and recruitment strategies'. I don't know about you but I'm still none the wiser. Isn't Bisto supposed to be cutting back on needless expense? Seemingly this guy used to play for Rangers, although he obviously didn't make much of an impression; even the Daily Record has hesitated to employ their usual label of 'Rangers legend'!

Meanwhile, comedy capers in Dumbarton. A guy (who's eight years younger than me, but looks ten years older) called Stevenson attacked another guy, called Noddy the Proddy, with his crutch. They'd been arguing and fighting in the pub and then took it outside, where Noddy came off worse when Stevenson attacked him with the metal crutch. Stevenson is pursuing a damages claim for his injury, which will probably be screwed now, what with CCTV showing him running after Noddy! Noddy is described as playing in a 'flute band'. Somehow I don't think he's the new Ian Anderson or James Galway!  

Noddy is now going to claim damages against Stevenson but he's got as much chance as Stevenson has with his claim. The court accepted, and obviously the evidence showed, that Noddy started the whole thing inside the pub. He hasn't done himself any favours by denying that he knows Stevenson, when, according to everybody else, he does! He even calls the attack 'random'. So that's two chancers going to have their injuries claims laughed out of court - if they ever get that far!

Finally, a story I discovered on Wings Over Scotland. There's a clown that writes for the 'Scottish' Daily Express, called Kerry Gill, who wants the BBC to be even more biased in its coverage of the independence campaign. He says that it's the 'British' Broadcasting Corporation and it should be fighting for the 'right' side, just as it did during WWII. Reading this idiot's article it's difficult to make out which side he would consider the 'right' side in the Second World War! Every article he writes is a tirade against Scottish independence, but this one takes the biscuit, comparing, as the Unionists are wont to do, the SNP with the Nazis.

He brings up the Falklands Conflict, saying how the BBC hardly presented "the Argentinians and the Argentinian way of life in as unbiased manner as was possible." No, but they did question the sinking of the Belgrano, so they hardly slavishly and sycophantically supported what was happening. And yet, now in a peaceful and democratic process the BBC have blatantly taken one side in this debate, as have the rest of the Scottish media.

Gill continues by saying that Scottish indpendence will be 'far more damaging' than the activities of Burgess and Maclean. He missed out Philby and Blunt there, as well as others involved. All of these were upper-class Englishmen that betrayed their country. Blunt and several others were protected by the Establishment and given well-paid sinecures to hide in. The activities of said Establishment in the cover-up were 'far more damaging' than anything done by these spies and hardly make us all feel safe at being linked with this pretence at democracy!

Oh, and Britain will lose its nuclear standing in the world if Scotland becomes independent. Why's that, then? Surely there's somewhere in England they can stick their nuclear subs? Or is it that they know that English people don't want these devices anywhere near them? I've got a suggestion: put them in Ulster. Just drape them in 'flegs' and I'm sure the Ulster Unionists would be perfectly happy to have them sitting in some lough with access to the sea!

The very mention of how the UK will lose its nuclear deterrent if Scotland secedes pretty much proves much of the SNP's point. Nobody wants these bloody things nearby and the fact that they've been dumped on us shows that our opinion counts for nothing in this supposed United Kingdom. Essentially we're just an English colony!




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Thursday 19 June 2014

DOOS AND DONT'S

Another bout of sheer desperation by the Daily Record today, trying to appeal to some of the baser elements in our society. They're running a story about republicans looking to get rid of the monarchy come independence. Of course, this will have the Sevilles up in arms. One of them adds to the debate by saying nothing more than 'God save the Queen.' I wish He would; then the rest of us wouldn't have to pay for her anymore.

Of course, it wouldn't be the Daily Record if they weren't bending the truth to their own ends. According to them, the republicans are calling on Alex Salmond to get rid of the Queen. Anybody with any brains knows that Salmond won't be in a position to do this if we vote YES. A constitution will need to be drawn up and a huge change like getting rid of the monarchy would involve a lot of legal wrangling and probably a separate referendum. Like everyone in the 'NO' camp, however, all the Daily Record can do is lie and try to paint Salmond as some kind of would-be dictator. Pathetic, really.

Sticking with Scottish independence, the clown Wullie WontHe is back on McMurdo's blog, copying and pasting as usual. This time he's on about the 'mass support' for union with England back in the 17th Century. All he can quote, however, is one character, who was involved in the Gowrie conspiracy and comes across as completely untrustworthy. The question has to be asked: if there was such widespread support for the Union in Scotland then why did Daniel Defoe have to go about bribing folk? And Defoe's own accounts show that the move was extremely unpopular among ordinary people, who at that time had no say in the matter.

He then goes on, or rather, whoever he's cut and pasted goes on, about the Scottish Enlightenment. It's true that most of these gentlemen spoke of Scotland as 'North Britain' but how many Englishmen spoke of 'South Britain'? I always feel a bit sorry for these men of the Enlightenment, totally deluded as they were about what the Union actually meant. What was it Nelson said, "ENGLAND expects...", not Britain! It doesn't matter how many Scotsmen you dredge up to support the idea of 'Britain' the fact is that England, the dominant partner, saw things quite differently. As Glen Daly used to say to his audience, "Is there anybody here from England? Welcome to Britain!"

I see Vincent Lunny has decided to go on to pastures new. Strangely, I was surprised to hear from him at all. I'd have thought he'd be over in Brazil, stalking Neil Lennon like he's been doing for years now. Apparently he's going to practise law. That'll be hard considering how deaf he is!

It was good to see folk jumping to my defence on Amazon, especially since they presented coherent arguments in a literate and eloquent way. If this had been a book about Celtic and had been criticised by a Celtic supporter, who hadn't read it, I don't think the replies would have been so cogent. 'Get tae fuck ya fenian bastard!' would probably be the most polite comment!

Now this might sound a bit out-of-place but I think it's a point worth making. John Docherty has been found guilty of the murder of Elaine Doyle back in 1986. This character spent six years in the army, which means that he probably was able to march about with folk waving plastic flags in his face and calling him a 'hero'. Surely this should be a lesson to our media that being in the armed forces doesn't automatically make you a hero. To qualify as a hero you usually need to do something heroic and it's about time this was remembered.

Finally, a big furore over a Tweet by somebody among the Bisto support. It purports to be from the Sons of Struth and says, "Has anyone noticed how many of those supporting the board come from an era that had problems with stairs at Ibrox?" Of course, they're all denying responsibility but it shows how low The Peeppul can get, even when speaking of their own!


 
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THE BLUE DOO  (With apologies to Jimmy Copeland)

There was wunst a wee doo,
An' this wee doo was blue,
It had got itsel' right in a mess.
Now it might be that you
Never heard of this doo,
Well ah'll tell ye for you'd never guess.

The doo's team had died
An' the blue doo had cried,
Cos his club it had gone tae the wa'
When alang came a man,
Wi' big Yorkshire hands,
Who said the club's no deid at aw.

The doo was ecstatic
Cos Green was emphatic
That things wid aw be okay.
There were cheap season tickets,
An' free tea an' biscuits,
An' naeb'dy was walkin' away.

The Big Lie was swallowed
An' the doo follow-followed,
Frae the Borders right tae up tae the North,
But as time it went on,
Green's big Yorkshire hauns
Took The Peeppul for aw they were worth.

The boardroom kerfuffles
Made the doo's feathers ruffle
There seemed tae be naeb'dy tae trust.
The money was gone
An' if nothin' was done
The new club was gonny go bust.

Abusive tweets
An' pishy bedsheets
Were not going to change anything.
But then came a guy,
Who was rich and fly,
An' went by the name of Dave King.

A judge called him a liar
An' pit fuel tae the fire
By callin' him 'shameless an' glib'.
But the Union of Fans
Played intae his hands,
Cos they liked the cut-y his jib.

The doo was confused
An' he felt ill-used,
He didnae know what way tae turn.
Everywhere he looked,
There was nothin' but crooks
An' the doo knew that he would get burned.

The doo'd hud enough
Of aw-y this stuff
It gave him a pain in his heid.
The doo said, "Aw fuckit!
This team's kicked the bucket -
Ah'll go 'n' s'pport Celtic insteed!"

Wednesday 18 June 2014

DOGS AND STABLES

I gleaned this little nugget from McMurdo's site:

"People like Rooney and Gerrard to me are not true England players in the sense of the words, the England team has been diluted like most international teams with players who come from split backgrounds. Just because a dog is born in a stable it doesn’t make it a horse."

Where's JK Rowling and her 'Death Eaters' comments now? Still, this kind or thing is par for the course among The Peeppul. Yesterday, just out of interest, I thought I'd click on some of the pictures of McMurdo's followers, just to check what kind of folk they are. Jeeeeeezzzuzzz! Some scary people there, with Facebook pages linking to the BNP and Nazi historical revisionist sites. And yet they've got the cheek to try and tar the SNP as Nazis!

I was reading yesterday that a survey shows that something like two-thirds of ethnic minorities in Scotland are planning to vote YES. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/06/12/scotland-independence-referendum_n_5488582.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular
The likes of JK Rowling should be forced to read this and reflect on her rabble-rousing comments, trying to make out that those for independence are somehow racist.

The disturbing aspect of the story I've linked to is the comments section below it. It's got the usual English racists on, saying how all these immigrants will take over Scotland and all the white folk will be seeking asylum in England. These are the Little Englanders that want to leave Europe and re-live the imaginary 'good old days' of the Empire, when Johnny Foreigner, especially black people, knew their place. And we're supposed to want to stay attached to this bunch?

Green's 'return' doesn't seem to have caused the furore we all expected; not yet anyway. McMurdo and his cohorts are surprisingly muted about the whole thing, while I expected Listy Graham and Halloween Houston to be marching on Ibrox. I don't think they've quite taken it in; they probably find it hard to believe that Green is still involved. What's the betting that Whyte surfaces again as well?

That's a new milestone reached. I've got my first troll on Amazon. This clown tries to be smart, pretending to have read the book when he obviously doesn't know the first thing about it. If he had read the book then he'd know that it isn't concerned with inside Ibrox but about The Peeppul and the press. A nice touch is his use of an Irish-sounding name as if that's going to convince everybody that he's not one of The Peeppul!

 

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Monday 16 June 2014

THE SIMON COWELL REFERENDUM

Anybody that's read my book 'Torrent' will have an idea of how I saw the 'No' campaign panning out. I was inspired by the scare stories coming out about Irish Republican sympathisers being arrested in Scotland, supposedly for having a cache of arms and bomb-making equipment. Although probably not going to the extremes that they did in my book, I genuinely thought that this was the road that the Better Together mob was going to go down, especially with all the anti-Irish and anti-Catholic rhetoric evident on some of the blogs that are against independence. It seems, however, that they're going to use a different scare tactic.

They've started the ball 'Rowling' with the Harry Potter author telling us all how she's worried about funding for medical research in an independent Scotland. Of course, this is a disingenuous argument; where is the funding coming from at the moment? Rowling glories in letting us all know how generous she is, like one of the rich people in the story of the Widow's Mite in the Gospels. So it was with some ceremony and widespread media coverage that she gave Edinburgh University £10m in 2010 to fund research into MS. Why would she need to do that if such research was already adequately funded?

And now the Daily Record has decided to tug at the heart-strings even more, with the story that Gordon Aikman, a former gymnast, has been diagnosed with Motor Neurone Disease, the same disease that Fernando Ricksen is stricken with. Of course, everyone's thoughts are with him and his family as they are with anyone suffering from this incurable condition, but the Daily Record looks to make political capital out of it by making sure that we know, right from the headlines, that he is a Better Together campaigner.

Now, I'll have to put my hands up, or, perhaps, hold my head up high, and say that I've never watched the X Factor or Britain's Got Talent. It's difficult to avoid exposure to it, however, as the newspapers are full of stories about the sad wannabes that take part in these competitions. It appears, from what I've seen in the media anyway, as if you win votes not with your talent but by coming up with the biggest sob story. All you read is, 'I want to win for my mum, who died last year' or 'Dying granny urged me to go on X Factor' or 'I'm dedicating my performance to my dead sister.' It looks as if all the competitors do this now and folk are getting a bit sceptical about it.

It looks like, in the Daily Record at any rate, this is the new Better Together tactic. Are the 'Yes' campaigners searching in their ranks at this very moment to find somebody that has an equally distressing story to tell? Hopefully not, as I wouldn't like to see the side that I support stoop to this kind of thing.

One interesting point from the story in the Daily Record is that Aikman has discovered that some MND sufferers in some parts of Scotland are being asked to pay for help with basic care. That doesn't say much for the status quo, does it? The DR also prints a website address for Gordon Aikman's 'MND appeal.' Now what's that about? We're being told that a 'No' vote will safeguard research programmes into these horrible diseases, so why the need for charitable donations?

So it seems that this is the tactic that Better Together are going to use: trying to frighten us all that there'll be no medical research done in an independent Scotland. The next step will be trying to tell us that the NHS is under threat, which is laughable given the state of it these days. Have you been in a hospital lately? When I was a child I remember every part of a hospital smelling of disinfectant while everything was crisp and clean; you could probably have eaten your dinner off the floor. Nowadays all you can smell is pish while treatment-room walls are smeared with blood and shite. Maybe things won't improve in an independent Scotland but they certainly couldn't get any worse!

A final thought about JK Rowling. I've enjoyed all her Harry Potter books. Some folk claim that they're derivative but it's hard to find any book or film that isn't. Although enjoying the stories and the characters, there's an undercurrent in the novels that I didn't like. Magical creatures, like elves, have to be taken care of and nurtured; they can't be trusted to look after themselves. I've a feeling that Rowling was thinking of Scottish people when she was writing about these characters!

And so onto lighter matters and the news that Hughie Green is making a comeback. I wonder, though, if he's ever actually been away. There's been no proof shown that he sold all his shares to the Easdales and he's probably been hovering around in the background somewhere. As far as The Peeppul are concerned, however, his tea's oot and he's not welcome. If you've read 'Clash of the Agnivores' you'll know my opinion as to why. See what I did there? Another wee plug.




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Apparently the paperback's on special offer at the moment!




Sunday 15 June 2014

STRAW-CLUTCHING EXTRAORDINAIRE

McMurdo decided to swallow whole the ridiculous Daily Record assertion that the Pope is somehow backing a 'No' vote in September's referendum. But isn't the whole thing supposed to be some kind of big, Catholic conspiracy? It certainly shows that the Better Together mob will stoop to anything.

McMurdo maintains the conspiracy angle by saying that Obama and Hilary Clinton are agreeing with 'their boss' ie the Pope. This is a theme that you'll find on some of the more lunatic corners of the internet: the Vatican-led 'New World Order.' According to this nonsense Rome's tentacles reach practically everywhere in the world and is dictating events and manipulating governments for its own ends. So if this 'New World Order' wants to maintain the United Kingdom, surely it must be for some sinister, nefarious purpose? Wouldn't it make more sense, then, for The Peeppul to vote 'Yes'?

McMurdo also usefully provides a link to the blog of one Ian Smart, a (supposed) Labour-supporting unionist, whose only arguments seem to be smear, slander and libel against the SNP. The piece linked to by McMurdo is all about the 'Nazi past' of the SNP, especially Arthur Donaldson, leader of the SNP throughout the 1960s. There's an MI5 document that reports that Donaldson, during the war, was pretty much a Fifth Columnist, ready to set up a Nazi puppet government in Scotland were Germany to emerge victorious.

It's worthwhile remembering, however, that wartime is always a time of paranoia. WWII was especially so, given the political dimension and it was common knowledge that there were Nazi sympathisers throughout Britain, especially in the upper echelons of society. The Duke of Windsor, for example, had to be sent to Barbados to stop him from causing trouble. When Hess's plane landed in Scotland, he asked for the Duke of Hamilton, a well-known member of the Cliveden Club, who had adorned his kilt with fascist symbols before the war. Apart from Mosley, however, none of these aristocratic fascists were interned.

In Britain in general paranoia was prevalent, exacerbated by government propaganda about Fifth Columnists being everywhere (even though they were probably all in the House of Lords!). I remember one story about a man from the Ministry of Food measuring a field. A member of the local Home Guard shot him in the head. His defence? The man 'looked German' and was acting suspiciously. There are, unfortunately, more than a few of these stories of folk being shot or arrested simply due to paranoia.

In such circumstances even the most innocuous of comments could be misconstrued. There was also a tendency for security service agents to make up stories to justify their employment and make them appear indespensible. The fact that Donaldson was detained for hardly any length of time shows that those in authority were not prepared to take this report at face value. It can hardly be used as concrete evidence to accuse Donaldson of being a Nazi!

Even if we were to accept that Donaldson harboured such sympathies, it is disingenous of this character Smart to project them onto today's SNP . He talks of the SNP shying away from its history and refusing to distance itself from this murky past. But why should it? Have we ever heard any word of contrition from the Daily Mail for its support of Mosley? Did all those Tory aristocratic fascists ever apologise? And what about Labour and the Liberals? Lloyd-George had nothing but praise for Hitler, as did Bernard-Shaw. In fact, Mussolini and Hitler, along with Stalin, represented the Fabians' ideal of the Neitzschian 'superman'. And Hitler's eugenics policies chimed perfectly with the ideas prevalent among UK socialists at the time. You don't hear mass mea culpas coming from any of the three main UK parties, do you? So why the hell should Alex Salmond be any different?

Oh, but wait...there were those in the SNP that hated Jews! This, of course, is disgraceful; but no less disgraceful than the complete lack of concern shown to German Jews by the rest of the world. It's become a myth now that Britain fought against Germany as a great moral crusade, but that is nothing more than a lie. Only in the United States was there any serious call for a boycott of the Summer and Winter Olympics in 1936 (led, incidentally, by mostly Catholic politicians and organisations). Britain went along with everyone else in not caring less about what was happening to the Jews in Nazi Germany. In fact, the only complaints about the Games came from the Canadians and that was because Britain had stolen many of their top players to win the gold in ice hockey!

Britain only went to war when Germany began to threaten her interests in the world and was completely silent about the plight of the Jews. Actually, the 'anti-Nazi' Britain carried out its own discrimination and it wasn't until the 1960s that signs saying 'RCs need not apply' or 'No dogs, No blacks, no Irish' disappeared from the UK!

Which brings me to Smart's final piece of character assassination: some of the SNP leaders, including Donaldson, were anti-Catholic and anti-Irish. Well, fuck me with a red-hot poker! Anti-Irish and anti-Catholic folk in Scotland! Surely not! 

Until fairly recently practically everybody in Scotland was anti-Irish and anti-Catholic, apart, of course, from the Catholics and Irish themselves! Even the employers that encouraged Irishmen to come over and work in their hellish factories had nothing but contempt for their employees. The Church of Scotland, politicians, local councils, businessmen and even trades unions all, at one time or another, expressed ant-Catholic or anti-Irish sentiments; often both. It's hardly worthwhile, therefore, to single out a couple of SNP politicians for condemnation.

But...but...Donaldson was still around in the 1980s and condemned Pope John Paul II's visit to Scotland, argues Smart. He wasn't the only one, was he? I seem to remember quite a lot of folk moaning about it and Ian Paisley being invited over to lead a pathetic demonstration Again, there's no justice in pointing the finger at only one individual. Paisley, remember, has actually been a leading light in Ulster's peace process, against the wishes of many in his party; so anyone is capable of changing his mind!

In conclusion, this is desperate straw-clutching by those against Scottish independence. Considering the amount of anti-Irish and anti-Catholic abuse that McMurdo allows on his blog, not to mention all the Nazi-like Loyalist crap, it's difficult to see what his point is in linking to this blog. If he is maintaining that the SNP is full of anti-Catholic, anti-Irish Nazis then surely he should be encouraging his followers to put a cross in the 'YES' box come September.

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Saturday 14 June 2014

NOW THEY'RE DRAGGING THE POPE INTO IT!

Now there's a major quandary for The Peeppul. The Pope has spoken of his concerns about national divisions. He says, in an interview with the press, that each separitist movement should be looked at on a “case by case basis”. He mentions Scotland, among other places, but does not say under which category he places it. Is Scottish independence to be supported or condemned? Of course, the Daily Record is all over this like a dose of crab-lice, claiming that the Pontiff has come down on the side of a 'No' vote in the referendum.

So where does this leave The Peeppul? I'm dying to see what McMurdo and his disciples say about it. They've been banging on forever and a day about how Scottish independence is some big Catholic conspiracy, with its headquarters in the Vatican itself. So how are they going to square this one? Who knows - maybe they'll all suddenly become converts to the cause of independence!

I see a new word has entered the vocabulary of the hard-of-thinking: cybernats. It always amazes me how these doughballs call themselves 'free-thinking' and yet seem to rely on somebody to tell them what to think, say and do. And, of course, they all love using this new word as much as possible. McMurdo, just like the rest of them, has a go at the 'cybernats' that posted 'vile abuse' online against JK Rowling. He also condemns Norman Maciver, a survivor of the Clutha tragedy, for his 'up against the wall' comment on Twitter.

Now there's a thing. No sooner had the helicopter crashed into the Clutha than The Peeppul were online with all manner of racist and sectarian abuse and rejoicing at the deaths. All the Daily Record had to say at the time was that the police were looking into online abuse, nothing to say what the abuse had been about or who had done it. It's strange how they can manage to print details when it suits them! I pointed this out on the DR forum and got so many thumbs down that I felt as if I'd just lost a fencing match in the Colosseum!

McMurdo says that if Scotland becomes independent then it will become a "hate-drenched, narrow-minded wee country". Ironically, it's already that and most of us are looking forward to an indpendent country when 'hate-drenched' and 'narrow-minded' Peeppul like McMurdo and his ilk piss off to England or wherever!

Speaking of which, I see one of the scum involved in the parcel bombs sent to Neil Lennon and others has been released from prison. He's got his own Facebook page, which he's been running from inside prison. This, of course, is illegal and an 'inquiry' is underway. What's the betting that we hear no more about it? And The Peeppul have been online to praise him to the hilt, calling him 'One of The People.' What was that about 'hate-drenched' and 'narrow-minded'?

Meanwhile, the Union of Fuckwits are again demanding that the deeds to Ibrox and Murray Park are handed over. The paucity of sales of season tickets seems to make them think they've won their case. Hardly. They've still to let us all know how many actually signed up for Honest Dave's scheme, so they can hardly claim any kind of mandate from The Peeppul. I've seen somewhere that around 7000 folk were daft enough to trust their money going into a crook's bank account, which is less than half of those that have bought season tickets. Most of The Peeppul are keeping their hands in their pockets, either because the books are now too dear or because they're fed up watching the keich served up by Sooperally and his team. The signing of Kenny 'Creosote' Miller has hardly fired their imaginations! So Listy Graham and Halloween Houston will get short shrift from the board!

And finally...I won't bother saying it. I'll just print the link again. Just click on the picture below. (That's the second one down, in case you're still half asleep!)




The Holy Father delivers a gift for Scottish journalists.




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Thursday 12 June 2014

HARRY POTTER SAYS NO

 Although Bisto FC won't give out exact figures, I think we all know that very few season books have been bought this year. The fact that the Union of Fuckwits are just as shy about giving out their figures is no consolation; Bisto needs money. And so they're doing exactly what everybody expected them to do; have a share option to raise funds.
 
The Daily Record bangs on about a 'share issue' but before such a thing can be even considered, existing shareholders have to be given first refusal on the new shares. The bigger the shareholding you already have, the closer you are to the front of the queue for taking up this share option. And, of course, deals will be made by some investors, demanding more shares as the price for their co-operation. With no line of credit, this is the only way left for the Bisto Board to raise much-needed funds.
 
Of course, the issuing of new shares under any scheme means that the worth of current shares is diluted. And so The Peeppul get the shitey end of the stick once again. Their original Rangers shares are worthless and now their shares in the new club are going to be worth a lot less than they paid for them; and there's not a thing they can do about it!
 
To be honest, this looks like the beginning of the end. Large, institutional investors normally don't mind diluting their shares as a short-term strategy since they are banking on the business performing as a going concern. But can this be said about Bisto FC? The share option will only raise enough for a few months' expenditure at best. What they're relying on is a mad rush of new Peeppul snapping up season tickets; if this doesn't happen then they're basically, as the economic experts would say, fucked!
 
Honest Dave's Trust Fund was meant to drip-feed funds to the club on a game-by-game basis but, by the looks of things, there aren't a lot of funds for them to drip-feed. So, if nobody else buys the season books then the board is going to have to rely on ticket sales once a fortnight. It's not the best way to run a football club. So the only reliable way that Bisto can raise funds is by share options and that is in no way sustainable. If they were to do this even a second time then the AIM Stock Exchange would soon refuse to trade Bisto shares and they would effectively be unable to function as a company.
 
Some of The Peeppul appear to be overjoyed that administration might well be coming but, as usual, they can't think much past their next meal. There'll be no shady deals this time; the assets will be liquidated and there'll be nothing left that they can call 'Rangers' anymore. Who would have thought that The Peeppul themselves would be the ones to destroy this Frankenstein's Monster?
 
Meanwhile the Daily Record is in orgasm mode over JK Rowling giving £1 million to the 'No' campaign. The reasons she gives for this are a bit suspect: she is worried that there won't be enough money for research into MS in an independent Scotland. Er...wouldn't a million quid have gone some way to help with this research? It also betrays some of her chauvinism, which was previously in evidence when the first Harry Potter movie was being planned. Steven Spielberg was going to make it but Rowling insisted on a 'British' Harry. The type of actor she wanted soon became clear when the film came out. The protagonist in the books spent his formative years in a cupboard, is skinny and malnourished and has uncontrollable hair. The film version is an upper-class lad, who's never missed a meal in his life, looks healthy and fit and doesn't have so much as a split end in his hair. Equally, Rowling is ignoring the reasearch into MS being done all over the world - it has to be 'British' research!
 
The Daily Record came back the next day to tell us of the 'vile abuse' that Rowling has received online. When, however, Euromillion winners, Chris and Colin Weir, donated to the 'Yes' campaign the DR could only say that the couple had received 'criticism'. It seems that they're only willing to call it 'abuse' if they agree with the recipients of the abuse.
 
Finally, yes, I'm on about my book again. What harm would it do to take a look? Click on the picture to go to the information page on Amazon. Here are the reviews so far:
 
5.0 out of 5 stars A walk down memory lane. 12 Jun 2014
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A witty accurate wander through the mess that to this day continues to shame Scottish football. The author has a unique view on the story but may be a bit premature on going to print as the farce continues. A boxed set may be on the cards and I would welcome more of the same . A good read.
5.0 out of 5 stars a must read for all football fans 8 Jun 2014
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having just read the kindle version a thought this is well a book for my collection and is the first book to highlight the sevco lie
5.0 out of 5 stars what a great read and lol at sevco telling lies 8 Jun 2014
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this book is 10 out of 10 for exposing the great sevco lie and a must read for all Scottish football fans both at home and abroad a great insght to the myth and a light shown on our smsm who support the myth .bampottery master class and the cover is just so sevco lol


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Wednesday 11 June 2014

HISTORY CAN BE BOUGHT

I've had an average of about a thousand folk a day looking at this blog. That's a thousand potential customers! Today I've decided to upload a chapter from my book so you can see for yourself what it's about. Buy the history!








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1

Complete Control

Church bells rang out all over the world as the joyful news spread. Spontaneous street parties broke out on every continent while some folk just stood, tearful, overcome with emotion. It was like the Berlin Wall coming down, Nelson Mandela being released and the end of the Second World War all rolled into one. Rangers had been saved! Charles Green had arrived in the nick of time and prevented 140 years of history being flushed down the crapper.
Well, that’s the story we were fed by our esteemed Fourth Estate but it didn’t quite happen like that. In reality a tawdry, backstairs deal was done between Green and the administrators, Duff and Phelps before the liquidators arrived. Green picked up the assets for a song, while a cock-and-bull story about holding companies was broadcast to justify Green’s claim that it was the ‘same club’. In the process hundreds of creditors were shafted out of the money they were due, including the local paper shop.
If things were as simple as that it begs the question as to why the club was in administration so long. What was the point in trying to find buyers with huge bank accounts? What was the point in proposing CVAs? The whole thing could have been done and dusted within a couple of days of going into administration. The only problem with that is that Duff and Phelps wouldn’t have earned anywhere near as much as they did.
Our agnivores in the press were ready, just like Sooperally, to give their support to anyone. In April they had been all over Bill Ng like a rash, telling us how he had had a ‘lifelong passion’ for Rangers ever since he had seen them winning the European Cup-Winners’ Cup back in 1972.[i] Strangely enough, Craig Whyte had been fired by the same passion; or so we were told. Wiser heads pointed out that Ng’s proposals didn’t quite add up. He seemed to think that £20m was going to be enough and there were doubts that he had enough money to do all the things he said he was going to. Eventually he pulled out, blaming Duff and Phelps for their intransigence.[ii]
Then we had Bill Miller, with his mad scheme of playing hide-and-seek with the assets.[iii] This was another guy with ‘wealth off the radar’ and our press was again all over him. The Daily Record even told us how his beauty-queen wife was going to be the ‘First Lady of Ibrox’.[iv]
The Rangers Supporters Trust denounced Miller’s plans,[v] which involved putting the assets into a newco, letting Duff and Phelps try to get a CVA for Rangers and then amalgamating the newco with Rangers when everything was alright again. The danger with this was that Rangers might be liquidated and all that would be left would be a new club. Miller ended up pulling out, with the opposition of the fans being a major reason.
So everybody accepted that liquidation meant the death of Rangers; anything that came after would be a new club. So when Rangers did, eventually, die there was an air of resignation about the whole thing. They had come to half expect that their club wasn’t going to make it. Now here was somebody, in fact a lot of folk, telling them that their club hadn’t died at all. They couldn’t believe their good fortune! The Rangers support, including those in the media, were only too willing to swallow this story whole.
Of course, it wasn’t all plain sailing for Green at first. Sooperally was ready at one point to ‘do walking away’ when he apparently discovered that Green wanted rid of him. A ‘source’ said about Sooper, ‘Honesty, dignity and courage have always been the driving forces in McCoist’s make-up but he doesn’t think those qualities have been in abundance outwith the players, staff and fans.’[vi]
This was going to create major problems for Green. Sooperally had become a hero to The People and was the only link left with the old club. Getting rid of Sooper would mean an uphill climb in pretending that Green’s club was ‘still Rangers’. He also faced a threat to try to oust him, even though he had only just got himself ensconced in the Blue Room.
A consortium, made up of Douglas Park, described as ‘the bus tycoon,’ Jim McColl, the owner of Clyde Blowers and Walter Smith made plain their intention to buy Green out.[vii] This was going to be a formidable force to contend with, especially given Smith’s iconic status. Green said that he’d sell for £20m, which he knew this bunch would never come up with. Sooperally was bound to give this group his support, which meant that Green would be hard-pushed to sell even one season ticket.
It was obvious whose side our media was on. Yes, Green had saved Rangers but he wasn’t a ‘Real Rangers Man,’ was he? It was a case of, ‘Thank you very much for saving Rangers. Now fuck off!’
The People voiced their support for Smith and his gang, while the Rangers Supporters Trust called for a season-ticket boycott to starve Green out. Green was in an unusually conciliatory mood and offered to make Smith chairman of his new club. He said, ‘If Walter Smith wants to ring me, wants to meet me, wants me to go to his house, I’ll do it.’[viii]
When it came to the crunch Smith’s millionaires shit themselves and pulled out. Green, and his backer Zeus Capital, even offered to let the millionaires come in with them but, instead, they stormed off in the huff. Green was now the undisputed master at Ibrox.[ix] He also managed to get Sooperally onside. Sooper said that he had decided to stay because ‘The most important thing is the future of my club.’[x] It would be over a year before we discovered the real reason for Sooper’s change of heart. Suffice it to say that Scotland’s pie manufacturers never had it so good.
Since Green was the last man standing, and Sooperally was now on his side, the Rangers fans flocked to buy season tickets; something they thought they might never be able to do again. Charles Green went among them, giving out cups of tea and wee bottles of ginger for the weans. This, of course, went down well but not half as well as his belligerent language as he promised to ‘stand oop’ to the football authorities. A quick visit to East Belfast didn’t do him any harm either.
And so began the myth of Charles Green saving Rangers. Green played up to this fully, especially when it came to the investigation of the side letters by Lord Nimmo-Smith, acting on behalf of the SFA. Nobody was going to take titles away from Rangers, he maintained. They had an unbroken 140-year history, he said. Everybody’s got it in for them, he said. This was all mother’s milk, of course, to The People.
Our newspapers joined in, using words like ‘relegated’ to describe where Green’s Neo-Gers were in the league. In reality, of course, Scottish football, especially the supporters, weren’t going to stand by and see this new team shoe-horned into the SPL. Why should this club get any special favours? In truth, the new club shouldn’t even have been allowed into the leagues at all; there were other clubs in front of it in the queue. Even letting Neo-Gers into Division 3 was bending over backwards to accommodate them. The People, however, and their cheerleaders in the press, saw things differently.
Since Green’s club was still Rangers then there shouldn’t have been any argument about it. A points deduction for ‘a second insolvency event’ and that should have been it. This was ‘Scotland’s biggest club’ we were talking about; how dare they treat it this way! Obviously Green was right; everybody had it in for his club.
Leading the good fight was one James Sexton Traynor; affectionately known as Jabba to his readers and listeners. In a complete and utter show of sheer brass neck, he went back on his previous statements of Rangers being dead[xi] to become the main cheerleader of Green’s ‘Same Team’ agenda.
Of course, it did not matter in the slightest if none of the rest of us bought into the Big Lie that this club was ‘still Rangers’. After all, none of us were ever going to buy season tickets or merchandise, were we? This campaign was aimed squarely at The People and, more specifically, their wallets.
Jabba conjured up different bogeymen that had ‘nearly’ destroyed Rangers. HMRC was the first. Incredibly, he expected us all to believe that Her Majesty’s tax inspectors went after Rangers out of sheer hatred and bigotry. David Murray had offered a settlement, but no; HMRC had to see it through to the bitter end.[xii]
Then we had the SFA and the SPL. They should have listened to Jabba. How could Scottish football in general, and, more specifically, the SPL, survive without Rangers? After all, Rangers was the biggest club in the universe, spreading financial largesse to all the lesser teams. Armageddon was coming and it was all the fault of the SPL for ‘relegating’ Rangers and the SFA for standing by and allowing this to happen.
But the biggest bogeyman of all was Craig Whyte; after all, Rangers went into administration on his watch. Jabba started to say that Rangers’ debt had been reduced to a manageable level before Whyte came on the scene.[xiii] He even went on a BBC programme blaming Whyte for everything, coming out with the classic line, ‘I’ve been saying this all along!’
In fact, he had been saying nothing of the kind. In 2010 he went on and on about how the ‘Lifelong Light Blues fan’ was coming to plough millions into the club. In June 2011 he was talking about ‘front-loaded war chests,’ whatever the hell that means. This cash was going to be ‘ring-fenced’ and more would be available if Sooperally needed it.
Now, however, in late 2012, Whyte was Satan incarnate. Of course, blaming Craig Whyte let Jabba’s god, the divine David Murray, who dispensed succulent lamb to the chosen, off the hook. Partaking of the Agnus Davi, however, came at a high cost. You were entering into a sacred covenant, where you had to give over your life to protecting your god. It’s like one of those strange, American cults.
Green seemed to be the new messiah, carrying on where Murray had left off. Whyte had done his best to destroy Rangers but had failed. Things were going to get back to normal, while all over Britain the sphincters of new-born lambs quivered in fearful anticipation.
Everybody in the press followed Jabba in slavish admiration of Green, especially praising his outspokenness and Yorkshire bluntness. Jabba’s old friend, David Leggat, he of the Presbyterian granny, took time out from his eternal, one-sided feud with Graham Spiers to say how wonderful Green was. Not only that, but Green’s associates, like Imran Ahmad and Brian Stockbridge, were the best things that had ever happened at Ibrox and they were more than suitable as custodians of the Neo-Gers, or Rangers, as many would have us believe.[xiv]
Only one discordant note was sounded. A baldy ex-Rangers player stood on the steps at Ibrox, dressed in his dad’s ill-fitting, old demob suit, and shouted, ‘Showzzideeds!’ Whose name was on them? In the general feeling of overwhelming joy, however, his protestations were completely ignored.
Of course, when it came to the practicalities of Neo-Gers’ existence, the Big Lie had no place. There was trepidation over whether the team would be able to play at all; it was not registered with the SFA as a club. Our great leaders, however, were ready to ride to the rescue. A temporary licence was issued, an unprecedented act, to allow the Neo-Gers to play their first league game against Peterhead. Afterwards, the licence of Rangers was transferred over to the Neo-Gers. Surely this wouldn’t have been necessary if it was still the same club?
On the field things were not that great. Neo-Gers’ very first match in Division 3 ended in a draw against Peterhead. After that things did not get much better as any wins they did get were by a very slender margin and often the result of a penalty or the opposition being reduced to ten men. This lack of quality, however, was put down to Sooperally having to cope with a depleted squad. Things were bound to pick up.
Green huffed and puffed about the players that left after liquidation. According to him, those players should have remained at Ibrox under TUPE regulations. These regulations, however, only apply if the company, in this case Rangers, is actually taken over. Green did nothing more than buy the assets but it is testament to the work of himself and his supporters in the media that he evidently believed that he had taken over, and saved, Rangers. Nobody, except the usual ‘internet bampots’ tried to disabuse him of this fantasy.
As to Sooperally’s squad, the transfer embargo imposed on Neo-Gers, rather conveniently, did not come into effect until the transfer window was closed. Sooper had the same amount of time as every other manager to suss out players and he did sign a couple from the SPL. The press still insisted, however, in calling the Neo-Gers team ‘kids’ and in claiming that Sooperally was playing with a vastly depleted squad.
A huge boost for the Big Lie came in December when the European Club Association let Green’s club remain within it, albeit as associate members. It was a strange business, though. The ECA is based at UEFA Headquarters in Nyon, Switzerland. Under Swiss law, ‘membership of an association is neither heritable nor transferable’.[xv] So Neo-Gers had to apply for membership. There was a stumbling block, though; members had to be in their country’s top division and have a UEFA club licence. It looked as if their application would be refused.
The weird thing was that the ECA then stated, ‘Taking into account that the 'new entity' also acquired the goodwill of the 'old entity', it was held by the ECA executive board that the goodwill, taking into account legal and practical arguments, also included the history of the 'old company'.[xvi] Effectively, the ECA decided that Green’s club was Rangers, since it had inherited all the history. Since all founder members of the ECA, of which Rangers had been one, were guaranteed automatic membership. Green’s club, therefore, was allowed in, called Rangers and was treated as if it was still the old club. Their associate membership meant that Neo-Gers was not allowed to vote on any issues.
It’s a tricky business all this stuff about history. When you’re ready to graduate from university, having completed three or four years of study, you have to apply to receive your degree; they don’t just hand it over automatically. You actually have to apply to the University Bursar’s office so they can check to see if you owe them any money. If you do, and you don’t pay up then you ain’t getting your degree. You can argue till you’re blue in the face but no money, no degree.
Effectively all the history of your time at university means nothing. Who’s going to give you a job when you don’t have a degree certificate to prove what you’ve been studying and how you did in your exams? The money you owe to the university is part of your university history. You have to accept all of your history; you can’t just cherry pick which bits suit you.
Surely the same should apply to football teams. Yes, I know businesses liquidate and start over all the time, shafting creditors left, right and centre, but very few would be stupid enough to claim to be the same company. If any did they would be liable for the debts of the old company. Green appeared to be getting away with claiming to be the same in some circumstances, but different in others. If his club was inheriting the history of the old club then surely that should include its debts? Obviously the rules, not to mention the law, were being bent almost to breaking point just to accommodate this one club.
There was a huge degree of double standards at play too in the ECA decision. If Green’s club was still Rangers, one of the founding members of the ECA, then why did it have to apply for membership? Nobody, however, was interested in answering these questions; probably because they couldn’t. To The People and their friends in the media, however, this acceptance by the ECA was nothing short of a triumph.
Meanwhile, opposition to the Big Lie was jumped on and squashed. First we had the craven capitulation of The Sun. Phil Mac Giolla Bhain’s book, ‘Downfall,’ had already caused ructions in book stores, where staff were openly threatened for stocking it. The Sun newspaper (I use the term loosely) carried an interview with Mac Giolla Bhain, telling how his life was under threat. The paper then proposed to serialise the book, relating ‘How Rangers self-destructed’. Cue all the angry phone calls, e-mails and threats to The Sun.
Whether it was fear of violence, or straightforward fear of a circulation drop, The Sun caved in and decided not to go ahead with the serialisation. They gave as a reason the supposed fact that Mac Giolla Bhain was ‘tarred with the brush of sectarianism.’[xvii] They didn’t bother, of course, to mention who had been wielding the brush.
And so a major voice of dissent was silenced. David Leggat was overjoyed and lost no time in telling The People just what he thought of Phil Mac Giolla Bhain. His Presbyterian granny had no doubt been turning in her grave at the thought of one of them being given a platform in a newspaper!
There was one minor problem that still had to be fixed: the Daily Record online forum. Day after day there was all manner of racist and bigoted posts on this forum; words like Fenian, Taig, Tarrier and Papes were used without any censorship or censure. At the weekend all posts by Celtic supporters were mysteriously deleted, while those of The People were allowed to stand, no matter what they said. The Daily Record IT staff claimed that they were being hacked but they hardly moved Heaven and Earth to fix the problem.
The major cause for concern was what the paper called, ‘personal abuse’ directed against ‘members of our staff.’ I never saw any such abuse. What I did see, however, was the staff being exposed as hypocrites. Jabba was constantly reminded of his assertion that Rangers had died; a fact that he seemed to have conveniently forgotten. Also, whenever any Daily Record writer started banging on about the ‘evil’ Craig Whyte, the terms ‘wealth off the radar,’ ‘frontloaded war chests’ and ‘lifelong Rangers-supporting billionaire’ were cast up in their faces. Obviously this couldn’t be permitted to go on.
And so, on the 13th October 2012 the Daily Record decided that it would no longer allow comments on its football stories. Thus the opposition to the Big Lie was being systematically wiped out and being forced to become the preserve solely of the ‘Internet Bampot’.
Meanwhile, Charles Green’s lashing out at all and sundry had caught up with him and he was hauled up before the SFA for bringing the game into disrepute. The evidence was there for all to see; his interviews on the television and in the newspapers, where he called everyone bigots and even questioned the integrity of Lord Nimmo-Smith. Incredibly, the SFA decided to find the case against Green Not Proven.
A ‘Not Proven’ verdict means neither innocent nor guilty; Jabba, however, proclaimed Green ‘cleared of all charges.’ He also said that Green was now being more conciliatory. Green showed this by issuing one of his usual threats. 'Perhaps it is time that those people within the SPL who have been pursuing Rangers at every turn take stock.'[xviii]
The whole affair was a fiasco and, if anything, showed that the Neo-Gers were going to be handled with the same kid gloves as Rangers always had been. This would help in the promotion of the idea that Rangers had never died and were still around. Of course, having Campbell Ogilvie EBT as president of the SFA couldn’t hurt either!
So Green was allowed to carry on his merry way, accusing everybody of having it in for his club, while Jabba cheered him on from the sidelines. The official Daily Record line was now that Rangers were still around, Green was right about everything and anyone that said differently was a bigot.
If Green had taken the time to take a good look at what had been going on around him, however, instead of getting caught up in all the nonsense, he might have planned a bit better for the future. The supporters, and the agnivores in the media, were ready to turn on him at the drop of a hat. He was playing a dangerous game. He might have been better off admitting that his was a new team and starting from scratch instead of going for the fast buck. He was not a ‘Real Rangers Man’ and never would be. There were plenty of those that were that would be only too willing to stab him in the back.