Leggat - creep's odious defence of green brigade

[ian1964 10,626]

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[stewarty 1,923]

Leggo is much more focused and less rambling when he takes aim on Speirs!

[Bluedell 5,482]

Can we get the article on this thread for those of us who can't access Leggat's site?

[ian1964 10,626]

Can we get the article on this thread for those of us who can't access Leggat's site?

 

 

CREEP'S ODIOUS DEFENCE OF GREEN BRIGADE

 

IT is hardly any wonder that the Times of London’s Scottish edition’s circulation is now barely 19,000 and tumbling. Odious Creep’s defence of the Green Brigade in a paper which is increasingly discredited by his presence, is the perfect example of the problem he poses the paper

 

Creep is a curious fellow. Someone who appears to have no sense of self awareness and someone who fails to see how he contradicts himself with almost every sentence he scribbles.

 

There is also the way his ramblings fly in the face of the carefully considered and crafted views of the some of the best writers and pundits who operate at the peak of the profession these days.

 

Guys such as the Daily Record’s Jim Traynor. The Herald’s Michael Grant, my old buddy the wonderfully waspish and often insightful Hugh Keevins in his always superb Sunday Mail column, plus, in my humble opinion, the best of them all, a man at the top of his game, Tom English of the Scotsman and Scotland on Sunday, who can also be heard regularly on Radio Scotland.

 

These are the top operators who have been stealing all of Creep’s thunder with their superb journalism in condemnation of the Green Brigade’s vocal support for the IRA and what English so superbly branded, Parkhead Paddywackery.

 

So how did Creep respond to being firmly put in his journalistic place by so many of his professional betters?

 

Well, like a frustrated seven year old who is being ignored in the primary school playground, he stamped his foot and he cried and he cried until he was sick. Or at least left all sensible people feeling a little squeamish.

 

For his defence of the Green Brigade in Monday’s Times of London Scottish edition was no more than an attention seeking scream. It’s an old trick which Odious Creep has resorted to often. And in the past it has often worked. But the circus crowd soon grows tired of a one-trick pony.

 

Especially when you can blow smoke through the holes in his childish arguments. In the case of his defence of the Green Brigade the hole appeared early when he asserted that many of those who criticised the Green Brigade had no right to, as they did not visit Parkhead or go to away games with Celtic.

 

Yet on Saturday he did not make it to the Inverness press box until just before half time.

 

At least that was earlier than when Rangers played Dundee United at Ibrox in their last match before the UEFA Cup Final and he didn’t arrive until near the end. His excuse, I believe, was that he had not known what time the game kicked off and assumed it to be at three. It started, if memory serves me, at 12.30.

 

But back to Inverness and events which took place before Creep was at the game. Tom English, in Scotland on Sunday, wrote that there was a minor, shortlived and very faint outbreak of IRA singing after three minutes.

 

Creep could neither confirm or deny that, as he was not there.

 

He wasn’t at Hampden yesterday for the big SPL-SKY-ESPN £80MILLION five year contract story either. The Times of London was the only national newspaper not represented at this important announcement.

 

Just it was not represented a week earlier when Creep did not appear when Terry Butcher held court. Paul Gascoigne was the name on everyone’s lips after his weekend soul baring television appearance.

 

When Butcher was asked about him, his former England captain offered revelations which made startling stories for the Scottish AND English editions. The Daily Telegraph, for instance, gave the Butcher story about Gazza due prominence. Anyone, with a whit of news sense, sensed a decent tale. Odious Creep did not even bother turning up and working for his Times of London paymasters.

 

He did though, on the same day, find time for a paid for interview with his wee pal at BBC Scotland’s Reporting Scotland, Chris McLaughlin and also managed to fit in a two hour paid for appearance on the Radio Clyde phone in that night.

 

Both the BBC and Radio Clyde at least got some Odious Creep babble in return for the few quid he trousered. The Times of London got exactly nothing from him about a story about Gazza, in return for the £100,000 a year they pay him.

 

All last week the big stories and main men commenting on them, skipped away from Creep, leaving him having to resort to his old attention seeking trick with an in-the-face-of-all-sound-sense-defence of the Green Brigade.

 

His attention seeking stunt has worked again. This time, just not in the way Odious Creep thought it would.

[26th of foot 6,001]

On Saturday afternoon, I tuned into Radio Snyde to receive an update on ra Yahoos game. Jim ra Tim Delahunt(current objective host of ra show) was guffawing as ra Slug Guidi informed him that as yet(20 minutes into the game), Spiers had not arrived at the ground. We were informed that Spiers had experienced a puncture and was on the side of the A9 attempting repair.

 

Jim ra Tim Delahant then adds, "Graham has just tweeted his distress and is hopeful a passing Celtic supporters bus might pick him up".

 

Born'n'bred Rangers supporter Graham Spiers feels comfortable enough to travel aboard a scum bus? I would wager that had it been Rangers up in Inversneckieland on Saturday, he would NEVER transmit such a tweet.

 

Of course, a bus full of bevvied up frothing scum is most probably an acute sexual fantasy of ra Bhoy in Corduroy.