Why do you feel the need to stay in shadows?

[ian1964 10,761]

PEOPLE used to call Walter Smith defensive.

 

But compared to yer man Craig Whyte, the old silver fox was Jimmy Calderwood going 2-4-4-1. With his goalie up front as the one.

 

There's an old saying that if you've done nothing wrong, you've nothing to hide.

 

And it's run round my head again and again this week in regards to the new Rangers owner.

 

Why IS he so secretive? Why DOES he bristle quite so angrily over any kind of criticism?

 

I mean, he's done one truly impressive thing since taking over at Ibrox and that was to turn up at the first Old Firm game of the season alongside a blonde with a cleavage like Kenny McDowall jumping to head a Mitre.

 

Yet here we are, more than a month on, and her name STILL hasn't come out. And in this day and age of celebrity tittle-tattle, that takes some doing.

 

So if this is how closely he wants to keep his socialising to his chest, what chance is there of him letting his guard down when it comes to his hush-hush business affairs?

 

Some men in his position would have dared the Beeb to come ahead with this week's documentary then gone to war if and when anything iffy was broadcast.

 

Yet Whyte had the wagons in a circle before the apaches even appeared over the hill.

 

He got his retaliation in first by banning Auntie in advance â?? a naïve piece of knee-jerkery, because the first thing his actions did was make far more people far more aware of the show than they might have been otherwise.

 

Plus, it was a clear sign that he's not half as big a player as he wants us to think he is.

 

Put the tackities into a Murray or a Lawwell or the like and they'll cut you out of their gang, spin a story to the opposition as their idea of punishment and make sure you're as unwelcome on their turf as humanly possible.

 

But they take it, because they're strong enough to take it. Because they know that you're only one guy with a laptop while they're running a gigantic institution that's taken blows for 100 years and is still standing.

 

Whyte, though, seems so brittle he makes Celtic's central defence look like Baresi and Maldini.

 

He's actually very like Romanov in the way he deals with the outside world, the Lithuanian's insecurities highlighted once again by a media blackout in the wake of his manager criticising a referee; a blackout that comes by pure coincidence at a time when players are speaking out about unpaid wages.

 

If Romanov thinks people can't see through stunts like this then it's a miracle that he ever made himself into one of his country's most powerful tycoons.

 

And if Whyte thinks shutting out a national broadcaster will stop people asking questions about his ability to bankroll Rangers, he's even more like Tim Nice-But-Dim than he appears.

 

Anyone who's been in debt knows nothing gets better till you stop hiding the final demands and start facing up to your problems. It seems for all the world like Whyte's actions this week are those of a man in denial about the weight of the worries he's taken on.

 

If that's not the case, why is it that RANGERS are refusing to deal with the Beeb and not just the man himself?

 

After all, apart from the fact that their name was in the title of the documentary, there was barely a word of criticism about the club.

 

It was all about Whyte. Yet he felt the need to throw stones at his attackers from behind the red brick of the main stand.

 

As for that criticism itself? Well, I'd love to go through it here with a fine-toothed comb, because some of it was serious stuff indeed. But, true to form, before the opening titles had run, Whyte's lawyers were issuing dire warnings of what they would do should any allegations be repeated in print. So I'll ask again: What's he scared of? If, as he says, it's all a pack of lies, why not face it down and tell us WHY it's a pack of lies; because just saying it is isn't enough.

 

And let me say this. If there's one journalist out there in whom I'd put 100 per cent faith, it's Mark Daly, the man who fronted this investigation.

 

I've known him since he was a kid on the local paper in Clydebank and his track record is there for all to see. He's infiltrated Greater Manchester Police to weed out racist officers, got to the bottom of the Royal Bank of Scotland's collapse and probed the Stephen Lawrence murder.

 

He's a top-drawer, old-school digger who doesn't hang his theories on "insiders" and "sources". The spine of his documentary was an interview with Robert Burns, head of the UK Insolvency Service, the organisation dealing with every company that goes down the pan.

 

It would be hard to imagine Mr Burns going on camera and on the record if he wasn't sure of what he was on about.

 

Yet Whyte calls the documentary and its makers biased, despite it being stated on camera that they asked him more than once to give his side of the story. As he took the decision to refuse, maybe his definition of biased is different to the dictionary's. All in all, he's an odd one, is Craig Whyte.

 

You take a Duncan Bannatyne or an Alan Sugar and they can't wait to tell the world how they made their squillions.

 

Along the way, that means the world finding out stuff they'd probably rather it didn't. But in the end, they shrug and move on, because they know that the good stuff on the CV far outweighs it.

 

You'd think that Whyte would be the same, that if he was big enough to run Rangers, he'd also be big enough to deal with the odd black mark he may have against him in the past.

 

But then, that's the biggest unanswered question of all.

 

Whether he IS big enough.

 

Read more: http://www.thescottishsun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/sport/spl/3888799/Why-do-you-feel-the-need-to-stay-in-shadows.html#ixzz1beY4wsf2

[GovanAllan 0]

Well the usual Sun pish exactly why I don't buy this arse wipe of a paper. The question the Sun should be asking is why cant they after 6 months find out anything to nail Whyte on and that's because there's nothing out there.

 

There are thousands of multimillionaire's in the uk who don't go screaming from the top step look at my money, they are the norm not the attention seeking arses we see on crap tv shows.

[Guest Dutchy]

Exactly GA. And what has this piece of daft journalism done to settle the argument? SFA, that's what.

 

Pointless, rudderless and glueless writting.