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  1. 26th of foot
    About a dozen years past, John Reid's son, Kevin was one of the duo from Beattie Media that were filmed by Panorama offering political influence for cash. The other half(I forget his name), went on to become the SFA's PRO for several years.
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    He did not appear. Cosgrove provided more than a few snide references to compensate.
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    Yep, in the rarefied reality of Jum's world, those sheep look like holocaust vicTIMS too.
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    Jum sought succour from extremists in the NUJ and now he is a pawn in their perception of reality. Paul Holleran, Phil McStupidnames, Angela Hagerty, .....et al pushed through a motion at their last conference stating 32 journos had been threatened by Rangers supporters in the previous year, Jum is more gris to their mill. In fact, as soon as Jum brought the NUJ to his meeting with the bosses at BBC Scotland, it was predicted by more than a few that such an incident would occur and the police would become involved. Jum et al want to be triumphalistic about Rangers, but do not want to accept the consequences.
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    We have re-signed Andy Webster.
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    Reference East Berlin. I was serving in West Berlin(British sector) in 1980. We were allowed to visit the Eastern part of the city for a several hour period during daylight hours. We were required to be attired in service dress, exchange £30-£40 into Ostmarks, and carry our MOD 90. It was drab, the smell of cabbage pervaded, and the beer ridiculously cheap. I remember the locals had plenty of dosh but nothing to spend it on, either a problem of distribution or manufacturing. I entered a Department store with the idea of purchasing a print for the mess walls, the shelves were barely a quarter full, mostly functional clothing. Later, in a bar and talking to a couple of guarded locals about football, I raised my experience whilst attempting to shop. They recommended a shop called, 'Inter'; West German goods at West German prices(10 Ostmarks to 1 Deutsche Mark). A couple of weeks later, I attended an Intelligence briefing and at the conclusion, mentioned my attempt at consumerism. Now, Int' types love to tell jokes as related by self-deprecating locals. A party member walks into department store and enquires about purchasing a pair of jeans? Shop assistant replies, 'this is the no shoes department, the no jeans department is upstairs'. The two locals in the bar told me everything was available in East Berlin for either jeans, coffee, or tights. I don't think they were joking.
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    Genuine humour is always based on truth.
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    Precedence is the key. Black should remind the Disciplinary Panel of the Clanree Hotel in Donegal. The then Sellik players, Pearson and Hartson stood on the stage leading the green'n'grey hordes in praise of the IRA. The then Sellik Chairman was also stood there chorusing approval and enthusiastically clapping his hands. We watched it on YouTube, we viewed the reality. However, when it reached the press; Peter Lawwell casually implied the video had been doctored, "utilising £30 of software". Black's bets are a perception of reality presented by £30 of software. Perhaps one of the more perceptive members of the panel will offer Ian odds on there being £30 of software in East Lothian?
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    A couple of journos have contacted me reference the club Chairmen that called BBC Radio Scotland about Jum's presentation of the 12-12-18 plan. Apparently, there is some interest in Jum's intestinal travels amid the sour underbelly of Scottish football. I told both I would provide the information on this forum. On that Saturday afternoon in April, BBC Radio Scotland was preparing for Open Mics coverage ie over a dozen representitives attending various games. John Robertson was at Elgin and City's Chairman approached the Hearts legend to voice concern. Next up was Cowdenbeath's Chair and he highlighted Jum's son having access to information currently denied to him. I am told Annan Athletic's Chair called in but was not patched through. Doncaster, Regan, Lawwell, Thompson, et al got together to formulate the plan and decide on it's presentation. Jum was selected and he went for full throated consummation of the succulent slow cooked soured underbelly. Some might say Jum is a hypocrite, continually pointing broadcast fingers at others, whilst gorging himself?
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    Zappa, Thank you, I am most comfortable with your actions.
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    Those of us old enough to remember the arcane system of Imperial weights, measures, and currency, do so with the absolute necessity of attention to detail. There were 20 shillings to the pound, 12 pence to the shilling, and 240 pennies in the pound. We were conditioned, look after the pence and the pounds will look after themselves. The pence was the basic building block and it is similarly so with the former Tayside college Law lecturer, Jum Spence who wants his Dundee cake and to eat it too. Prefacing all his comments on Rangers with, "I am saying this from the safety of the east coast"; was a flagging up of his march to martyrdom. He was anxious for immersion into the warm waters of victimhood. Last summer, he demanded contrition from Bears, shrugged-off Bears' legitimate grievances with the word, 'consequence', and led the charge to extinguish our club with the battle cry, 'sporting integrity'. Jum eulogised the Rangers Tax Case blog and often flashed his professional background to legitimise the blog's message. Jum's broadcast vocabulary such as, 'industrial scale' became a parrot of the blog. He was an absolute devotee, he worshipped at the altar. When Rangers won the big tax case and the entire blog was deleted that evening, Jum lamented the Orwell prize winning crib sheet. Jum's need to chorus was quickly sated with the appearance of Charlotte Fakes. Like Cosgrove, he acknowledged it's more than dodgy relevance; however, he opined the requirement to ignore it's provenance because the information was too damned good. Credential flashing was supressed in favour of big fun. Again, like his pal Cosgrove, CF was vital because it exposed the sour underbelly of Scottish football. Since CFs only referred to Rangers, it appears Jum and Stuart accepted Scottish football can be distilled down to the Bears, there we can agree. It's interesting that Jum is concerned reference Scottish football's sour underbelly, Cosgrove defined it as a certain club's heavy influence over particular journalists. In other words, the succulent lamb effect. In April of this year, the 12-12-18 plan for the future of Scottish football was first aired on BBC Radio Scotland. On the Thursday evening Spence presented Sportsound and described the idea as exciting and a panacea for our footballing ills. Roddy Forsyth pointed out that 12-12-18 confined Rangers to the bottom tier for another season, Jum dismissed his concern with, "it's not all about Rangers". I wonder if you agree that Jum's retort sounded a bit sour and if that truly was his conclusion; why such unequivocal support for Charlotte Fakes? Two days later on Saturday afternoon's Sportsound, Jum was allowed to reveal he had been in possession of the twenty-something page 12-12-18 plan for over a week. In fact, he had given the entire plan to his late teenage junior playing son for a couple of days, and he agreed, "really exciting". Rheinhart Gordon joked, "how did you manage to come by this"? Jum laughingly replied, "ah hiv ma sources". Again, the concern of Rangers remaining in the bottom tier was summarily dismissed. Fifteen minutes after Jum's BBC Radio Scotland had backslapped him heartily, three Chairman called in and wanted to know where Jum got the plan and could they send it to them because they had NOT seen it. I am informed more than three club Chairs called to expose Jum's underbelly but BBC Scotland's Producers were intent on fire fighting on his behalf. We know that Jum founded and edited an Arab 'zine for a decade, we know Dundee United's Chair, Stephen Thompson was a big mate and a member of the SPL committee, and we know Jum loved the idea of stiffing Rangers. Further, we know a big part of Jum's depression last week was his beloved Tangerine's decision to ban him and BBC Scotland because of Sportscene's trial by TV. Jum, and today's presentation of his predicament have conveniently ignored this fact. It got lost in the interference being run whereby Jum evoked Pastor Niemoller's words and compared himself with holocaust victims and ra Bhoy in Corduroy found his inner-Dorothy and labelled Rangers supporters complaining as, "the Stasi". Charlotte Fakes also disappeared into the blue nowhere while Jum suffered the slings and arrows of martyrdom. The situation has changed and maybe Jum will adhere to his legal training and begin to consider opposing arguments and objective presentation of evidence? I suspect shops will return to displaying prices in guineas(one pound and one shilling) before Jum succumbs to being fair about Rangers and Rangers supporters.
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    Watching this story unfold, I wondered how long Jum Spence would take to allow former 'zine colleagues to embrace him? Muirhead, Brennan, McConville , and McGillivan rode to the rescue, they realise how important Spence is to their message. Phil McStupinames has an official position with the NUJ, Irish Observer/representative type thing. This is incredible, given his notorious piece on Rangers supporters, 'the Incubator'. Paul Holleran is the NUJ's Scottish Organiser and his past is as shady as Phil's. Thirty years ago, he was sacked at the Rutherglen Reformer for telling lies in print. He popped up in Liverpool and fully subscribed to the Militant cause ie controlling a national political party from the inside. The imagery above comparing Jum to a big Chow is perfect, he has decided to lay down with some rabid dogs. He will be scratching this itch for decades.
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    I agree, it's not an apology. However, it is most significant in that Jim Spence has become THE STORY. Jum will have to change his bye-line to, 'Jum Spence, baiting Rangers supporters from the safety of the east coast'.
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    For a decade, Spiers lionised Glenn Gibbons in his Sports Diaries in both Scotland on Sunday and the Herald. 'The Great Gibbo' was portrayed as fearless and uncompromising. It was hero worship at best, another form of latent homosexuality expression by the Bhoy in Corduroy at worst. Gibbons has evolved into a hate-filled primate.
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    Amazing! Bears bang on for several years about the influence of both Editors and Producers at BBC Scotland, and it is ignored. It's the principle we scream; however, it cannot be heard for the cacophony of sniggers. Highlighting the discretions of ra Sellik's opposition whilst downplaying/ignoring the transgressions of the green'n'grey. It effects Dundee United and suddenly the sniggering stops.
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    I wonder if Charlotte Fakes will flag up the intention of Neil Doncaster's SPFL to locate and finally pay out the prize money due to Rangers from season2011/12? Further, transferring from oldco to newco, does that not prove continuity of the same club?
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    Since last summer, Jum Spence has often prefaced any broadcast comment on Rangers with, "I am saying this from the SAFETY of the east coast". Jum has immersed himself in the warm waters of victimhood. It's a mind set shared with Rhienart, Tom, Stu', ........... etc. Often, they indulge in a bit of triumphalism, enjoy a good snigger, then feign exasperation at those they have offended having the gall to possess sensitivities. Jum is a former Law Lecturer, a communicator whom says what he means, means what he says. His piece will have been calculated, whether the east coast guarantees his safety fantasy is open to question; however, his Producer yesterday was Tom Connor. Stydome season ticket holder, Tom provides the necessary safety for Jum to swagger.
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    Well done, I forgot about the, 'oh no, no'. Hopefully, the Blue Order et al will chorus against the Red Lichties a week on Saturday.
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    Anyone remember, 'Excerpt from a Teenage Opera'? Grocer Jack, Grocer Jack Get off you back Get into town Don't let them down We could chant : Toxic Jack Toxic Jack We don't want you back Because your PR Is quite bizarre
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    Ramsay Smith is a blast from the past. A long time ago, in an organisation far, far away; I was tasked by the then Chair to lunch with dearest Ramsay. Over a period of two hours, I learned that Mr Smith was other worldly. He was Media House's hands-on number two and thought Graham Spiers was a very decent chap. Ten years past, Spiers had penned a number of articles smearing the deceased Jock Wallace and Davie Cooper. He had included the phrase, "Ian Ferguson has all the charm of a child molester" in a Dunfermline/Sellik match report. I asked Ramsay if he thought he had a grip of the situation? He defended himself by presenting a several minute lecturette on the value of foresight ie running interference on negative stories and superseding with the positive. I countered with the effect of Spiers continual demonising of the support and marginalisation of the club. I produced a copy of ra Sellik View and turned to Matt McGlone's column on the inside back page. He was lionising Spiers and congratulating him on winning the readers' poll of most favoured journalist for the fifth year running. I concluded he was being rewarded for being THEIR useful idiot. It is most obvious to me that Media House are incapable of objective appreciation of THE situation. They arrive with a preferred solution, then fit their perception of circumstance around that solution.
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    Jack Irvine proves he is galactically stupid. He has managed to shoot himself in both feet recently; now, he shoots himself in the head.
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    It was a dozen years past that saw the Dandy Dons visit ra Stydome and whilst suffering the usual several goal thrashing, the travelling support sand, "we hate Rangers more than you", with unmatched gusto. The usual suspects in the media thought this was capital, their green'n'grey hooped heroes won handsomely and the red and white clad sheepies provided the comic cabaret. The Dandies in both print and broadcast media remain anxious to be seen to fellate their Yahoo superiors. Willing catamites, one and all. Michael Grant lionises ra Sellik in the Herald and on BBC Radio Scotland. Liam McLeod's commentary last week against Shakhtar was overwrought with superlatives. Rheinhart Gordon pleaded with ra Sellik, "to do it for Scotland"; then opened the mic' for the listenership, "to drink in the incredible atmosphere". Abergreen supporters equal green'n'grey hooped aspirations by proxy.
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    I was most impressed with young MacLeod last season. His injury was a major concern; however, he made it back for the final game but appeared tentative. My hope for this season was that he slowly and surely regained both confidence and form. He has surpassed my desire. He looks fitter, taller, stronger, and is aesthetically pleasing as ever. Seven games has seen him play across every midfield position, mostly in the left berth. His first touch is always twinned with ensuring his head is up and assessing options. Yesterday's goal was the epitome of this trait and it highlighted another increasingly obvious quality, game awareness. I have two fears. Where will he play next week? Templeton will be left midfield, Law in the centre, and Crawford/Peralta compete for the right berth. The other obvious candidate for centre is Black, I would prefer MacLeod. Further, can the club hold on to him beyond this season? I believe he has a big future and wonder if the club in it's current predicament can fulfil?
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    Perception? Cosgrove spent the last several weeks of last season insisting Rangers were regularly playing in front of crowds of less than 20,000 at Ibrox. I wondered why he would so obviously mis represent the situation? Of course, being Chanel 4's Head of Diversity and a Regional Editor, he was aware of the strategic pitfalls awaiting BBC Scotland.
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    "he should be reprimanded" We are assuming there is a code of discipline, applicably both to the individual and collectively. I have an idea for reality TV. Six, twelve, several dozen individuals(the number is arbitrary) are placed in the Ibrox Boardroom with the mission, 'find evidence of discipline'. It should be noted that these individuals are NOT archaeologists. Any classicists among those participating will recognise the similarities with the trials of Sisyphus.
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