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Conar96 said:
Does anyone even read that paper in Glasgow anymore? Sure he used to write in Rangers News before they were relegated* ? poor souls ?
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Yep, when he says senior sports writer, that sort of gives the game away, he has a desk and a computer and is the boss over the crayola selection for the days statements.
The computer was given to them by AMSTRAD along with the bike.
 
I had a friend who worked at the Record at the time they ran the headline comparing Fergus with Sadam & there was outrage among the non- peepul who worked there at the time, but the editor was having none of it & pushed for the headline to go ahead.
Obviously Minty Murray had his claws all over the great & fearless ‘journalists‘ in Scotland at the time. Has it changed much? ??
 
Conar96 said:
I had a friend who worked at the Record at the time they ran the headline comparing Fergus with Sadam & there was outrage among the non- peepul who worked there at the time, but the editor was having none of it & pushed for the headline to go ahead.
Obviously Minty Murray had his claws all over the great & fearless ‘journalists‘ in Scotland at the time. Has it changed much? ??
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Spot on a good journalist should never be the story.
 
In actual fact the last time I spent in his company was the night/morning we stopped the 10 in a row. He quite his job the following week refusing to be restricted to the Records slant on sporting issues.
I wouldn’t say he was a BIG Celtic supporter but he was savvy enough to know what was going on & didn’t want to be a party to their dirty deeds ?
 
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boab1916 said:
He writes for an agenda based rag, no other team gets the negative exposure Celtic gets in the West of Scotland. Noticed he never stated he carries a NUJ card, he has never left his office to wirte a story, he is a copy and paste churnalist.
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If you use the example of Brendan Rogers, there was a media trained operator who had a soundbite for every occasion.

A skilled journalist from the old school would engage and disarm him as a subject, slowly and skillfully peel back the layers and finally get to the heart of the man.

The modern hacks don't have the social skills or the latent talent to do anything other than a remix job on a "presser" or syphon off theories from the blogosphere.

It's an insult to real sports journalists, like David Walsh, who doggedly stuck to the Lance Armstrong story in spite of massive resistance from the cycling federation, his journalistic peers, the sports financiers and Armstrong himself.

This current crop of sports "journalists" write their pieces with the crayolas that they didn't get around to eating and are only interested in producing erotic hun porn.

Useless, the lot of them
 
Spherical Planet said:
If you use the example of Brendan Rogers, there was a media trained operator who had a soundbite for every occasion.

A skilled journalist from the old school would engage and disarm him as a subject, slowly and skillfully peel back the layers and finally get to the heart of the man.

The modern hacks don't have the social skills or the latent talent to do anything other than a remix job on a "presser" or syphon off theories from the blogosphere.

It's an insult to real sports journalists, like David Walsh, who doggedly stuck to the Lance Armstrong story in spite of massive resistance from the cycling federation, his journalistic peers, the sports financiers and Armstrong himself.

This current crop of sports "journalists" write their pieces with the crayolas that they didn't get around to eating and are only interested in producing erotic hun porn.

Useless, the lot of them
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The amount of posters who use the term the huns believe they are the chosen ones, do not realise the irony in that statement, when you sit back and look at it, they are indeed the chosen ones, chosen to be fleeced for the rest of their lives until its too late, to me the chosen ones brings a wry smile to my face, it's true i say everytime i hear it and read about their weekly court cases and debt.
 
boab1916 said:
The amount of posters who use the term the huns believe they are the chosen ones, do not realise the irony in that statement, when you sit back and look at it, they are indeed the chosen ones, chosen to be fleeced for the rest of their lives until its too late, to me the chosen ones brings a wry smile to my face, it's true i say everytime i hear it and read about their weekly court cases and debt.
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Catch you tommorow HH
 
boab1916 said:
The amount of posters who use the term the huns believe they are the chosen ones, do not realise the irony in that statement, when you sit back and look at it, they are indeed the chosen ones, chosen to be fleeced for the rest of their lives until its too late, to me the chosen ones brings a wry smile to my face, it's true i say everytime i hear it and read about their weekly court cases and debt.
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Darwin described it best with his concept of "natural selection", Boab.

I might be taking it completely out of context, but it is in their nature to consume the bullshit they're being fed and select only the bits they want to hear, see, or read.

Apologies to Darwin for bending his concept to suit my want, but in another part of his study he discusses the need to adapt or die.

It already happened once, it looks like they version 2.0 hasn't kept up with evolutionary development either.
 
Starting a new thread that drips faux concerns and half baked rumours is typical of a troll. Someone coming on to deliberately inflame. A genuine fan would read the feedback and apologise profusely for being a bit wrong headed and out of step. Every teenager is allowed to 'go off the ranch' from time to time. The OP is not a teenager.
 
The term Hun is derived from Rangers or as in Glasgow the Gers. The Gers was the term in 1940 and 1914 for the Germans. They were called the Huns throughout WW1 as it was thought they were the descendants of Attilla the Hun. Thus Hun = German= Gers = Rangers. It's like calling a broken bone a break or a fracture. Its a disparaging term, but it's not in way offensive. In fact it's just historical.
 
Fisiani said:
The term Hun is derived from Rangers or as in Glasgow the Gers. The Gers was the term in 1940 and 1914 for the Germans. They were called the Huns throughout WW1 as it was thought they were the descendants of Attilla the Hun. Thus Hun = German= Gers = Rangers. It's like calling a broken bone a break or a fracture. Its a disparaging term, but it's not in way offensive. In fact it's just historical.
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Interesting theory Fis but different from what I was lead to believe.

The term hun was applied to the German's in the first ww by a newspaper in the UK as you say due to their actions being similar to the huns of yore.

However it was applied to the Glasgow team(by us) due to their love of the German speaking Royal family of the UK, The sax-coburgs who changed their name to Windsor at the time of the first WW.

Another theory states that a English journalist coined the term Hun after seeing the fans in action on a visit to England.

Anyhoo huns they are.

H. H
 
50 Shades of Green said:
Interesting theory Fis but different from what I was lead to believe.

The term hun was applied to the German's in the first ww by a newspaper in the UK as you say due to their actions being similar to the huns of yore.

However it was applied to the Glasgow team(by us) due to their love of the German speaking Royal family of the UK, The sax-coburgs who changed their name to Windsor at the time of the first WW.

Another theory states that a English journalist coined the term Hun after seeing the fans in action on a visit to England.

Anyhoo huns they are.

H. H
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My theory is simple and not offensive. I reckon if keep repeating it we win the right to use it as a historical term.
 
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