Good Morning.
A look through last night’s reporting and at today’s newspapers following Sevco’s heroic promotion to the sunlit uplands of a Premiership debut demonstrates the extent to which much of our sports media is little more that a cesspit of apologias for rule-breaking, creditor-stiffing and an apparently indestructible football ‘club’.
At its best, journalism should speak truth to power and investigate things that others would rather keep hidden. Sadly, for some (but not all) in our mainstream media, Scottish football only seems to has any value whatsoever if there is a Rangers-flavoured entity at or near the top of it. The tiresome ‘Old Firm’ nonsense can be churned out oh-so-lazily, and the rest of the game can (in broad terms) GTF. Oh, and the risk of intimidation from fans who can’t accept that they watched their club die is substantially reduced!
Over the past two decades or so, Scottish football has become an embarrassment to the world’s greatest sport, and to Scotland as a nation. Few morals, comparatively little regard for rules or level playing fields, and absolutely no serious consequences for a team in Light Blue which went to the wall owing creditors millions and having screwed the tax man
It really is an extraordinary thing when parts of the media are willing to dispense with the norms of society and systematically lie in order to preserve a dead football ‘club’ (just one, not all of the dead clubs) while the authorities apparently acquiesce. It suggests that there is something rather rotten at the heart of this country.
Some folk are doing good work to try and bring about some sort of accountability and justice to our game (including the people on TSFM, and those behind Resolution 12). But right now it is difficult to avoid the conclusion that you are an absolute idiot if you pay a single penny into any part of Scottish football. And yes, that does includes attending matches in support of your own club (NB I know that comment will upset a lot of people).
The people in authority with the wherewithal to make it a genuine sport and deal with the misdeeds of the past seem unwilling to do so, and the media which could give them a kicking for resting on their laurels would seemingly rather talk about the ‘Journey’ and the ‘Old Firm’… Oh and sneer at folk on Twitter who suggest that they might like to do some actual journalism…
It’s a farce. A farce that seeks to get your money under a historically false pretence of genuine competition. A farce which is slowly but surely destroying our game.
Ooh look! An ‘Old Firm squirrel’!
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