McGregor, the BBC, SFA and the wider implications�

[Norris Cole 0]

As mentioned in another thread, Jan Fabel's article from FF.

 

I think the Nazi Germany analogy damages the credibility of the argument slightly, but a decent read nonetheless.

 

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�for The Rangers, our fans and for Scottish society.

 

This, goes on a bit and can be seen, if you wish as, a bit of a rant but Iââ?¬â?¢m merely trying to see the latest anti-Rangers stitch up and the inaction of those who should be our ââ?¬Ë?friendsââ?¬â?¢, in a wider context.

 

It�s up to you if you want to read the piece or not�

 

BBC Scotland has, on numerous occasions made very high profile and repeated negative reports on the actions of Rangers' supporters, players and the club's officials.

 

The Sports and news departments within BBC Scotland are populated with people who are entirely comfortable with their inbuilt Rangers FC antipathy/positive Celtc FC outlook and are equally insouciant when it comes to making editorial decisions on how to 'spin' particular stories or, indeed, whether to report particular events at all.

 

Only a fool would be unable to fathom the correlation between the 'recruiting policy' within these BBC departments and the highlighting of anti-Rangers stories and the constant supply of pro Celtc pabulum. The most disturbing aspect of the policies of these departments, within a publically owned, tax payer funded service, like the BBC, is the Gobbelsesque demonisation of a particular group within Scottish society.

 

Each day the more aware on this forum point out the bias within BBC Scotland and the wider Scottish media. We are aware because we have become attuned, over time, to the anti Rangers nature of the reporting. The changes in this period have been considerable; there has always been the blatantly inaccurate over the top attacks from people like Archer, Spiers, McNee etc, much worse still is the almost subliminal torrent of anti-Rangers propaganda, the main thrust of which is to make it appear that somehow Rangers fans are ââ?¬Ë?differentââ?¬â?¢ from the rest of Scottish citizenry and therefore seem somehow less able to behave properly in civilised society.

 

In a separate prong of the relentless attack, the achievements of our club on the football field are to be belittled or dirtied with the implication being that any success for The Rangers is achieved only in an underhand way and/or with the collusion of a supposed corrupt proââ?¬â??Rangers football officialdom. This is of course, laughable but this classic Jesuitical line, of trying to silence the screams by accusing the victim of the crimes of his or her tormentor is the line being trotted out by unsavoury, agenda-driven elements within the Scottish media and reinforced by corrupt and bigoted politicians.

 

The most frightening aspect of this agenda is, that it is working; non Rangers football fans, of all colours, can always be relied upon to jump on the ââ?¬Ë?hateââ?¬â?¢ bandwagon. Worse still, from Rangers FCââ?¬â?¢s point of view, are the wider Scottish public, who support no particular football team, in the sense that they do not contribute fiscally or vocally by attending games or buying merchandise and those with no interest in football whatsoever.

 

The danger with this group is that they are being manipulated by the Scottish media to associate all the negative aspects of Scottish society, be they religious, political or social with The Rangers and its fans. As an example, how long did it take the Scottish media, led by BBC Scotland to attribute blame to The Rangers for Scotlandââ?¬â?¢s failure in the Czech Republic? That, of course, is a rhetorical question. Now, as far as the Scottish media is concerned the pretence is over, subtlety is no longer required and all fig leafs rendered unnecessary for a Scottish public ââ?¬Ë?softened up,ââ?¬â?¢ by a continuous stream of overt and covert anti-Rangers propaganda.

 

To return to the Goebbels reference: initially, when the Nazis targeted the Jews as a mass problem for the German state, they had difficulty in persuading the majority of the German public to see the Jewish people as evil. Most Germans knew Jews as individuals, worked with them, socialised with them and many had even fought with them in the trenches in the First World War. Goebbels succeeded in turning the tide of public opinion against the Jews by use of relentless programme of anti-Jewish propaganda, based on distortions through to out and out lies.

 

The Jews were blamed for all of Germany�s ills. A campaign of violence and destruction against the Jews and their property then followed; the Jews were to be 'dehumanised'; treated as animals and the wider German public was encouraged to engage with the lie: after all it is easier to shoot a dog than to shoot a man, especially when those who chose to speak up for the Jews fond themselves subject to the same Sonderbehandlng ["special treatment"] an outrageously obscene euphamism in any language.

 

I know many of you will view the comparison between the fans of our football club and the attempted systematic eradication of an entire ethnic group as ridiculous. But I see many a parallel. In a difficult time for the country, where the old values are continually, derided and abandoned in favour of a promised new, as yet undefined, ââ?¬Ë?Utopiaââ?¬â?¢ that appears to be taking an inordinate time to arrive, it is easier for those in the vanguard of the new wave to select a scapegoat for their failure to deliver the new ââ?¬Ë?visionââ?¬â?¢.

 

The Rangers are seen as a symbol of something to be despised by the Celtc-minded and that is no surprise, as they hate everything about the country that has raised them and given them succour; they bite the hand that feeds them in favour of the view of a foreign country that, in their fuzzy vision, vacillates between some kind of sunny, Rome blessed, agrarian idyll and a land in a perpetual state of turbulent revolution. This ââ?¬Ë?paradiseââ?¬â?¢ is where a mixture of bog standard criminal gangsters, vie with violent, Marxist-Leninist terrorist murders for control. In this world both are lionised just as long as they are killing Protestants.

 

The BBC is merely one of many Scottish institutions that has fallen under the control of what can be usefully termed as: the ââ?¬Ë?Celtc-mindedââ?¬â?¢ but when added to education, the law and politics then the control of the agenda is complete and provides the rest of us with a nightmare vision of our and Scotland's future.

[Guest PTB]

Some fuckin big words in that article

[Norris Cole 0]

Some fuckin big words in that article

 

Aye, it doesn't look good when people go on football forums and use words like "Jesuitical".

[bmck 117]

jesuitical is actually pretty apt choice in what he's describing. it also has rc-bashing connotations, which some of the target audience may enjoy.

[Norris Cole 0]

Target audience? The post was on FF FFS

[bmck 117]

who can fail to be familiar with twisted jesuistic casuistry.

[ian1964 10,419]

Monday, 11 October 2010

ALLAN McGREGOR AND THE SFA

 

WINSTON CHURCHILL once turned his magnificent oratory on Russia, describing it as an enigma, wrapped in a riddle and shrouded in a mystery.

 

If the Greatest Ever Briton was alive today, and if he turned his attention to more mundane matters, then he may well have used the same words to decribe the Scottish Football Association.

 

Now, not for a moment do I believe George Peat and Stewart Regan favour the the killing grounds of Stalin's Gulags, but they do seem to have a similar liking for secrecy.

 

WHY?

 

For surely if you have nothing to hide, why hide it?

 

It would appear though, within the sixth floor at Hampden there exists an increasingly small cabal of men who hold power, and who do not favour justice being seen to be done.

 

Many may believe that Hibernian 's Rod Petrie, who is chairman of the General Purposes Committee, is seeking to run it behind the same Iron Curtain of secrecy with which he runs Hibs.

 

Why this should be so is indeed an enigma. And a riddle. A mystery too.

 

Take the case of the one match ban given to Rangers goalkeeper Allan McGregor. What he did in the match against Aberdeen when he aimed a kick - which missed - at Chris Maguire, was not merely stupid. And not only unnecessary.

 

IT WAS AN ACT OF LUNACY!

 

McGregor deserved to be punished, if only for being so stupid, especially after his disgraceful antics in the match against Hibs a few weeks ago.

 

If his action had been spotted at the time he would surely have been sent off, and Rangers chances of staging their remarkable fightback to win would have followed him down the tunnel.

 

There should be no blame attached to Willie Collum, who refereed a difficult encounter better than I've seen any other official perform this season. Nor should either linesman or the fourth official carry the can. They can't have eyes in the back of their heads.

 

Nor should there be any sidetracking by referring to the incident involving Darren Young's stamp on Lee McCulloch.

 

In effect, and despite what many Rangers supporters may think, McGregor got what he deserved. You have to feel sorry for Walter Smith, who once remarked that one Andy Goram in any manager's career is more than enough.

 

Goram though, for all his off the field high jinks, did not behave on it as McGregor has on too many occasions.

 

In my view, and I say it again to underline the opinion, McGregor got exactly what he deserved. It may help him to learn his lesson. But don't bet on it.

 

So there it is, my view, clearly stated and with not only my name, but my picture too, at the top to make it clear who I am. There's nothing anonymous or anything secret about it.

 

Unlike the SFA's Video Review Panel which acts in the shadows like some sort of furtive spy operating behind enemy lines.

 

Let's start at the beginning. The McGregor incident occurs, the match officials all miss it, but it is highlighted on Sky by Andy Walker and forms a great deal of the Monday morning newspaper coverage of the match.

 

What follows is a prolonged period of silence, with the news that McGregor had been reported to the SFA not emerging until Thursday of last week.

 

We are not told who made the report. The SFA referees' supervisor? The SPL delegate? A paperclip counter at the SFA? Wee Shuggie frae Shettleston?

 

And so the enigma becomes a riddle, which is a mystery to all but that small cabal.

 

Then there is the ten day delay. One report claimed the reason was George Peat was on holiday and that Stewart Regan had not taken up his post as chief executive, therefore there was no executive present within the SFA to instigate proceedings.

 

Although that report carried no direct quote from anyone at the SFA. Secrecy again!

 

What we were told is that a three man Video Review Panel, of an ex referee, an ex player and an ex manager , and chaired by Sandy Stables of the Aberdeenshire and District FA, would sit in judgement.

 

We were not told who the former player, referee and manager were. Why? It is inconcievable that any of the three had a Rangers connection. Or a Motherwell connection, as that is the team McGregor will be absent against.

 

Or, despite the fact the chairman was Sandy Stables from the Aberdeenshire and District FA, any of the three would have an Aberdeen connection, given the fact the incident happened against the Dons.

 

Surely too, the SFA would know the problems they would be piling up for themselves if either an ex Celtic player or manager judged a Rangers player.

 

So that's Rangers, Motherwell, Aberdeen and Celtic removed from the equation. So just who did sit on the Video Review Panel?

 

Justice, should not merely be done....it should be SEEN to be done.

 

Anything else merely opens the door for all the crackpots and conspiracy theorists out there who think everyone is against their club.

 

When Churchill was talking about Russia, he was using the contemporary term for the Soviet Union, where the dictators used secrecy to stay in power. The SFA would do well to remember what happened to it in the end.

 

http://davidleggat-leggoland.blogspot.com/

[Guest piagio2000]

Regarding the first piece...I just find it a bit scarey that guys apparently inteligent enough to be able to produce a lengthy essay like that can believe such complete and utter tosh. And even more scarey that there is a forum where such views aren't seen as complete lunacy.

[Guest PTB]

Regarding the first piece...I just find it a bit scarey that guys apparently inteligent enough to be able to produce a lengthy essay like that can believe such complete and utter tosh. And even more scarey that there is a forum where such views aren't seen as complete lunacy.

 

 

he says conveniently missing the point

[Guest piagio2000]

What point have I missed?

 

I'm sorry if I can't take a supposedly serious essay which compares the fate of Bears in 21st century Scotland to that of the Jews in 30's and 40's Germany.