Alex Thomson makes Private Eye.

[26th of foot 5,838]

The ground was prepared, the usual suspects welcomed heavy artillery to the fray. A reporter of international standing, survived the backstreets of Basra and took cover in the componds of Afghanistan; Channel 4's Alex Thomson's attention had been turned to the blight of succulent lamb journalism. Well, he came, he saw, and promptly made an arse of himself.

 

His appearance on Radio Snyde was comedy gold, he unfolded an A4 piece of paper and read a perceived threat from a false e-mail account. Further, he informed the listenership that he was passing said piece of paper to the police. The e-mail addy, 'leggoisblotto.com' might have gave it away; but ra Polis announced a day later, 'no further enquiries'.

 

Alex was losing face, laughed out of town, and even those that previously lionised him were now suffering collective embarrassment. Spiteful Alex then tweeted and distributed by e-mail a YouTube piece of animation showing John Greig's statue stepping down from the plynth and walking away. It was a so called piss-take on McCoist's, "we don't do walking away". The memorial to the 66 Rangers supporters who failed to return from an old firm New Year's game was deliberately sullied.

 

Alex Thomson was forced to apologise unreservedly and quite rightly so, he had been played as a useful idiot. However, Thomson was then given a platform on BBC Radio Scotland that very week of the apology. Cosgrove, Channel 4's Regional Commissioning Editor brought him on to 'On the Ball' to allow considerable mitigation. The unreserved apology morphed into if you construe it as offensive then yep, I apologise. Cosgrove prompted him throughout, unintentional and misinterpreted.

 

This week's issue of Private Eye spears Thomson :

 

 

Alex Thomson's valiant doorstep efforts to force Kelvin McKenzieto talk on camera for Channel 4 news about his coverage of Hillsborough swiftly became an internet hit complete with the inevitable accoutrements of YouTube remixes, debates on Jeremy Vine's Radio 2 show and outraged complaints to Ofcom.

 

But was Thomson really the ideal man for the job given that just three months previously he had to issue an unreserved apology via the Channel 4 website for posting a link to a video which he admitted could be, "interpreted as disrespectful to the memory" to those who died in the Ibrox Disaster of 1971?

 

Sixty-six Rangers fans were killed in a crush on the terraces of the Glasgow stadium in what until Hillsborough, was the worst loss of life at a British football ground.

 

Private Eye's higlighting Thomson's appropriateness is something the Bears' support should utilise as a building block in our fight against the continuing hatred. Cosgrove's complivcity should NOT be forgotten either, the very next week on On the Ball, Irvine Welsh spent an hour on the show plugging his latest work. Big Stu' did not ask Welsh's motivation for the naming of his late 70s band in Edinburgh, 'Stairway 13'. I wonder why?

[DUDE 0]

He's made an arse of himself on numerous occasions but this piece of solid gold stand tall above all of them. What a twat.

[the gunslinger 3,366]

I haven't laughed as much in ages as I did when the bafoon was on Clyde. made a total tit of himself.

[26th of foot 5,838]

I haven't laughed as much in ages as I did when the bafoon was on Clyde. made a total tit of himself.

 

 

In 30 seconds he went from succulent lamb to trucculent bam.

[Juancornetto 1]

It's not been a good couple of months for Alex and Phil. Both of them have been roundly mocked from all but their own band of sycophants.

[Bears 0]

The sad thing is Thompson won't loose his job. he'll still be on his 6 figure salary. Guys like him are so full of confidence/arrogance that he knows he's untouchable