Do not buy The Sun - All Phil Mac Gobble Bhoy posts in here

[simplythebest 0]

Well The Sun for the next few days are serialising the book of raving, bigoted lunatic Phil howevermanynames, paying him for it as well.

 

Disliked the paper for a while anyway but this is below the belt, that man should get no credible coverage. Not one for telling people what to do but no Rangers fan should really buy that newspaper.

[Daniel Amokachi 0]

If anyone actually buys tabloids then leave them to it because they're a lost cause.

[forlanssister 3,050]

Read it for 30 years, stopped the day they had a front page with the picture of a coffin with the Rangers crest on it being lowered into the ground a few months back.

[Zappa 0]

Read it for 30 years, stopped the day they had a front page with the picture of a coffin with the Rangers crest on it being lowered into the ground a few months back.

 

That was shocking and the Record wasn't much better that day.

[simplythebest 0]

That was shocking and the Record wasn't much better that day.

Which day was it, when HMRC turned down the CVA?

 

I was actually on holiday when that broke, heard the news fine but never saw the newspapers.

[Zappa 0]

Which day was it, when HMRC turned down the CVA?

 

The day after the CVA was officially rejected.

[Daniel Amokachi 0]

I particularly like the spaced out words and paragraphs aimed to help the retarded UK population follow what is being said

[simplythebest 0]

The day after the CVA was officially rejected.

 

Well pity for all of them the liquidation of a holding company has been such an anti-climax, and don't doubt it has.

 

The way they keep getting upset and repeating the whole 'new club' on phone-ins etc thing shows their insecurities as we just get on with our business.

[ian1964 10,429]

Phil Mac Giolla Bhain ... blogger who rocked Scottish football

I broke the story about Gers going bust ... now I live in fear of my life

By SIMON HOUSTON

Published: 12 minutes ago

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A SCOTS blogger who broke one of the biggest stories in Scottish football history has revealed how sinister death threats have left his family living in fear.

Police are probing a series of online threats against Phil Mac Giolla Bhain, who was first to report on the huge tax bill which led to Rangers going to the wall.

The 53-year-old Glasgow-born writer has been given specialist security advice by cops in Donegal, where he lives with his wife and three children, and has been told to keep his movements secret.

Blogger Mac Giolla Bhain has spent four years investigating the financial crisis at the Ibrox club, producing a string of exclusives, but the stories have come at a huge personal price.

He has become a target of sectarian hate from extremists in the west of Scotland and Northern Ireland and now spends his life looking over his shoulder.

Mac Giolla Bhain said: “Almost like turning a tap on, the abuse, smears, libels and threats started the moment I began writing about Rangers and it has never gone away.

“One came through the other day, about bullets and wishing my family dead and how ‘we’ll start with your daughter’.

“Some of the obscene threats and comments made about my family I can’t really begin to talk about.

“I’ve made full statements to the police in Ireland, who have advised me on my personal safety and that of my family.

“The information has been passed to Strathclyde Police.

“All because of a football story.”

His new book Downfall: How Rangers FC Self-destructed is out next week and will be serialised in The Scottish Sun from tomorrow.

It charts the club’s remarkable fall from grace and is tipped to shoot straight to the top of the Scottish bestsellers list, with pre-sale orders already through the roof.

Mac Giolla Bhain became an internet phenomenon four years ago after writing about the controversial Rangers anthem The Famine Song, which was later ruled as racist by the courts and banned from Scottish football grounds.

Then in May 2010 he handed now defunct Sunday paper the News of the World the story which rocked Scottish football — by revealing that the taxman sent Rangers a demand for a staggering £24million.

It was one of a string of predictions Mac Giolla Bhain made about the Glasgow giants’ perilous financial state which came to fruition.

Speaking exclusively to the Scottish Sun, the self-confessed Celtic fan denied being motivated by a hatred for Rangers and insisted he would investigate the Parkhead club with the same vigour if information came his way.

The former social worker and mountain rescue team leader, who moved to Ireland 15 years ago, says he won’t be put off by the threats — but has to take special measure to keep his wife Kathleen and his three children safe.

He said: “Obviously I can’t talk specifics but we have to be very mindful about our personal security and it has had an effect on our lives.

“Fortunately my son and daughters are old enough for us to sit them down and explain how it is. The highest risk is when I’m coming to Glasgow when I have to be mindful about where I’m going, what I’m doing and who I am telling.

“But it won’t stop me. If that stuff was going to stop me, it would have worked by now — maybe back in 2009 when I was starting out on this road.

“As far as I’m concerned, an attack on a journalist is an attack on journalism and an attack on journalism is an attack on democracy.

“In Ireland, where I live and work, threats against journalists are taken seriously — particularly after the murders of investigative reporters Martin O’Hagan and Veronica Guerin in recent years. My wife has always been really supportive and she told me she was really proud of me.”

Mac Giolla Bhain has become in internet phenomenon with more than 15,000 followers on Twitter.

The writer, who started using the Irish version of the surname Gillivan to identify himself as an Irish-speaker, put his head above the parapet while writing about the notorious Famine Song.

And while abuse quickly followed from some angry Rangers fans, so did the story tips from people in the know, including well-informed Ibrox sources.

In January 2009 he began blogging about the financial woes of the Rangers parent company Murray International Holdings.

He said: “Then in early 2010 I took a phone call about Employee Benefit Trusts and how the club had been hit with a big tax bill, so I did some digging and when I realised I had a story, I cultivated a couple of sources — people who took professional risks to bring me information, who I will never name.

“But I had enough to take the story to the News of the World because the story needed to be told in the mainstream media and they splashed it on the front page.

“It ran in May 2010 and was the first in a series of articles.

“Then all sorts of stuff came my way, from the same sources and other new ones, about a tax tribunal and how Rangers had offered to settle but that had been rebuffed by HMRC.”

After the Craig Whyte takeover in early 2011, Mac Giolla Bhain was among the first to report on the disgraced businessman holding back PAYE and VAT payments, which was the final straw for the taxman.

He also reported on sheriff officers turning up at Ibrox over unpaid taxes.

He added: “Once I started writing about Rangers and my name became known, people started to contact me — some were genuine and some weren’t. Throughout it all, Mac Giolla Bhain has had to contend with an online smear campaign.

He said: “There was a clear campaign to discredit me and the message I was trying to make about the Famine Song in 2008, which if it was about any other ethnic group it would be on CNN.

“There were various fabrications made about me which if they were repeated in a newspaper, for example, I would have wealth off the radar.

“They invented a reason for why I left Scotland.

“The simple answer is we wanted our kids to grow up in Ireland.

“My dad’s from Mayo and my wife’s mother is from Derry and it felt like home.

“But I like coming back to Glasgow because it’s my home town. Take Ireland out of my personal story and replace it with Italy, and suddenly it’s not controversial.”

He added: “If the Rangers fans had read what I had been predicting three years ago — even if they had pretended it was written by someone else — and taken it on board, maybe the club wouldn’t have gone to the wall.”

Strathclyde Police confirmed that a complaint had been received about threats against the journalist.

A spokesperson said: “There was an investigation and a report was made to the procurator fiscal.

“However there was insufficient evidence and no arrests were made.”

 

 

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[johnnyk 158]

Can't actually mind the last time I bought a tabloid paper, I don't even read them if they are lying around anywhere they are terrible. Surely some of them must go out of business soon with low sales?