The Terrible Journalism & Tom English Thread

[Dons_1988]

[Sergeant Wilson]

2 hours ago, Dons_1988 said:

Right, so when I said it was the correct principled position, but as a point of fact it is correct to say the bbc are not banned from ibrox, you totally agree. Good stuff. 

Don't give the bàstards an inch.

The BBC should pay someone to burn it down.

[Desp]

1 hour ago, Ric said:

Are they able to send any member of staff to cover a game? McLaughlin can walk into the ground with a ticket, he is only banned when working for the BBC, thus the ban is while he is employed by them. The ban is with his work and as he is contracted to work for the BBC, the ban is the BBC.

Rangers at no point should control who is given the job of reporting on their games, just like Aberdeen should not be allowed to, although I feel we both agree on that point.

 

Where are you pulling this information from? 

The BBC can send whichever employee they like to cover games at Ibrox.  This has always been, and always will be, the case.  Rangers, nor any other Scottish football club, have absolutely no control over who gets picked to cover their games.  If the BBC choose to send Chris McLaughlin, however, he won't get through the door because he is banned.  Should they choose literally any of their other employees, then there's no issue because the BBC isn't banned.

You've had one here. 

[kingjoey]

1 hour ago, Ric said:

Are they able to send any member of staff to cover a game? McLaughlin can walk into the ground with a ticket, he is only banned when working for the BBC, thus the ban is while he is employed by them. The ban is with his work and as he is contracted to work for the BBC, the ban is the BBC.

Rangers at no point should control who is given the job of reporting on their games, just like Aberdeen should not be allowed to, although I feel we both agree on that point.

 

 

 

Of course you’re right that they shouldn’t be able to control who reports on their games, no dispute there. But if the BBC chose to send any employee to work at a Rangers home match, apart from Chris McLaughlin, they would be able to do that. Therefore, the BBC aren’t banned from Ibrox.

[Ranaldo Bairn]

Been quite some time since we've seen such a catastrophic run of posting before this tour-de-force by the Buddie.

Genuinely inspiring stuff.

[RawB93]

7 hours ago, AJF said:

the same entity? No.

Noo he gets it

Edited March 28, 2022 by RawB93

[House Bartender]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[Jacksgranda]

22 hours ago, Albus Bulbasaur said:

Last page has been an interesting psychological insight. 

 

Edit - Ooft such comments have left me the victim of a red dot drive by by the man who's been humiliated over the last page or so. Definitely completely normal behaviour. 

Ruins every thread he posts in.

[Dunning1874]

Not Scottish football related, maybe there should be an international edition of this thread in the Misc football forum, but I digress.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60970706

"Manager with experience of several tight title races will find needing to win tough games frequently an alien concept because all other leagues are shite"

[Clown Job]

6 minutes ago, Dunning1874 said:

Not Scottish football related, maybe there should be an international edition of this thread in the Misc football forum, but I digress.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/60970706

"Manager with experience of several tight title races will find needing to win tough games frequently an alien concept because all other leagues are shite"

You see that type of shite all the time with them

I remember something similar being said from the likes of Danny Mills questioning if Varane can handle the EPL

You know the guy who has 4 Champions League and a World Cup medal at home. 

Edit: When was the last time an English manager won the EPL?

The majority of the league is made up of non England managers 

Edited April 3, 2022 by Clown Job

[ajwffc]

9 minutes ago, Clown Job said:

 

Edit: When was the last time an English manager won the EPL?

The majority of the league is made up of non England managers 

The last English manager to win the top league in England was Howard Wilkinson in the 1991/92 season. The last season before the Premier League started. 

[Bairnardo]

14 minutes ago, Clown Job said:

You see that type of shite all the time with them

I remember something similar being said from the likes of Danny Mills questioning if Varane can handle the EPL

You know the guy who has 4 Champions League and a World Cup medal at home. 

Edit: When was the last time an English manager won the EPL?

The majority of the league is made up of non England managers 

Just checking here in case i'm missing something really obvious.... The answer is never isn't it?

Anyway posted on another thread but it was a beauty from Michael Owen who recently stated that Salah would sign a new deal at Liverpool, with his reasoning being the only moves he can make are sideways* or downwards**

 

*Man City

** Every other club in the world. 

[TheScarf]

English managers are mainly shite and always have been. 
 

It’s probably down to players not respecting their Tory sounding accents and voices. 

[House Bartender]

Not strictly bad journalism, but why does this read like a guilty confession? (BBC Scottish Gossip). "Revealing" might have been the word they required.

Lowland League champions Bonnyrigg Rose Athletic have cited "pyramid integrity" as a driving factor after admitting they were one of four out of 15 clubs who voted against allowing Celtic and Rangers B teams to compete in the division next season after this term's experiment. (The National)

[DA Baracus]

Tabloids frequently use 'admit/admits/admitting' when it comes to football for some reason. A bizarre practice.

Edited April 6, 2022 by DA Baracus

[Monkey Tennis]

On 28/03/2022 at 11:15, AJF said:

@Dons_1988has covered it for me already. As he mentions, the BBC themselves are not banned. Rangers have confirmed in the past that the BBC as an organisation are welcome, it's only Chris McLaughlin that isn't. The BBC have also confirmed that they will continue to boycott Ibrox - no mention of them being banned.

Whether you agree with the reasoning behind it or not, Rangers reserve the right to ban whoever they see fit from Ibrox, regardless of their occupation. This is not Rangers determining who the BBC can employ, it's simply a case of one of their employee's is not welcome at Ibrox.

It's akin to Sir Alex Ferguson refusing to do interviews with the BBC for the best part of a decade because he didn't like the way they portrayed his son. Nobody was kicking up a fuss over that.

Do you honestly believe that the distinction is worth stressing?

To ban this individual from working at Ibrox is utterly despicable, given the nature of his 'offence'. That's the point here.  To split hairs over whether it's factually accurate to describe it as a ban on the BBC, amounts to a deflection designed to mask that despicable act.

 

Ric has got nothing wrong here at all.

Edited April 6, 2022 by Monkey Tennis

[Monkey Tennis]

On 28/03/2022 at 13:06, Desp said:

 

Rangers are perfectly entitled to do what they're doing, and I'm perfectly entitled to say that the whole situation sums this Rangers up.  Spoilt, arrogant, toys out the pram when something they don't like happens.  For all of their chat about the "institution" they claim to be, they are a continual fucking embarrassment. 

Rangers are not remotely entitled to do what they're doing.

[bennett]

12 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Rangers are not remotely entitled to do what they're doing.

Whatever it is, we most certainly are.

[Dons_1988]

23 minutes ago, Monkey Tennis said:

Do you honestly believe that the distinction is worth stressing?

To ban this individual from working at Ibrox is utterly despicable, given the nature of his 'offence'. That's the point here.  To split hairs over whether it's factually accurate to describe it as a ban on the BBC, amounts to a deflection designed to mask that despicable act.

 

Ric has got nothing wrong here at all.

Don’t start this again 

[Monkey Tennis]

1 minute ago, bennett said:

Whatever it is, we most certainly are.

What? Entitled to ban someone from working at their ground, for having reported perfectly accurately from another one.

Rangers are not 'entitled' to do that, even if they're wrongly allowed to.