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[26th of foot 6,082]

On 24/02/2023 at 19:22, 26th of foot said:

Always a Sellik state of mind?

 

It's Friday evening before the old firm League Cup final on Sunday at Hampden. BBC Scotland's flagship news programme is Reporting Scotland. BBC Scotland's Sports News Correspondence, Chris McLaughlin does a five minute preview. How both sides arrived at the final is covered, then we get a bit about the last time the old firm met in this final in 2019. Chris continues with a mention of the part to be played by both clubs' supporters.

 

He interviews Natasha Meikle from A Celtic State of Mind outside ra Stade de Gadd, followed by a PQ studio interview with Jordan Campbell of the Athletic.Apparently, Jordan Campbell is the Rangers Writer at the Athletic? Do any Gersnetters know anything about Jordan Campbell? Further, is the Athletic considered a bona fide source of all things Rangers?

 

Anyways, PQ appears to be extending considerable effort into establishing A Celtic State of Mind as a legitimate and reliable source of all things Sellik. I count tonight's inclusion as being the fourth such BBC Scotland exposure in as many weeks.

It would appear that BBC Scotland will have to find another Rangers spokesman.

 

As of today, the Athletic have announced they will no longer cover matters Rangers. The Athletic has decided Wrexham are a better fit as to their future. Jordan Campbell was the Rangers correspondent, now he covers Arsenal.

 

Of course, PQ and Chris could decide to utilise St Mirren Chairman, John Needham as their next Rangers spokesman. He is in the news today because he took to Twitter to like a post from a Sellik minded Journo who states, 'Sunday's VAR was controlled by Referee, Andrew Dallas from inside his Orange Lodge". This follows Needham's Twitter expression of two years past on Rangers achieving 55, "I note Rangers supporters celebrating by performing the Bouncy on the Squity bridge, hopefully the bridge collapses into the Clyde with them on it". 

 

John Needham has all the credentials demanded by PQ to be a Rangers man.

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"cheated and hoodwinked", says Big Dick.

 

PQ Productions went into overdrive at the weekend. A nostalgic grip on the comfort blanket had them doing analysis of Saturday's Premiership matches over two days with Motherwell's Chief of Coaching, Richard Foster on Saturday evening's Sportscene and, Motherwell's Gaffer, Stuart Kettlewell on Sunday's Sportsound. The weekend's football began at Fir Park with Rangers the visitors. VAR had two decisions, 'Well's first goal and Sakala's contribution in the build up to Rangers third. The lines were drawn and both goals stood as legitimate. The other decision up for discussion did not involve VAR because the Referee deemed it to be a second bookable offence that culminated in a red card for the claret and amber's Callum Slattery.

 

Sportscene was the channel for Foster's rage, he disagreed with the drawing of the lines for Sakala's run, he was certain Fashion Jr was offside. This was just a forerunner for fulmination reserved for Todd Cantwell. Callum Slattery had received a yellow card for scything down Lundstram in the first half. In the second period, he tangled with Cantwell, throwing out a straight left arm that caught the Rangers player on the jaw and neck. Richard proclaimed, "it's an absolute embarrassment from Cantwell, I don't think Tyson Fury would knock him down that quickly". Foster did not mention Slattery's status as the most cautioned player in the Premiership. However, he agreed Hibs forward, Elle Youan's red card at Sellik Park, "was the correct decision". Sportscene's Producer, Eamonn Donohoe has just found another useful idiot.

 

Sunday afternoon's Sportsound had Big Dick Gordon hosting, with Jim Duffy and Stuart Kettlewell reviewing the weekend's games. First up was the 'Well - Gers clash. Kettlewell explained he had had two telephone conversations with the SFA Head of Refereeing, Crawford Allan. Like Foster the 'well Boss thought Sakala was offside and, pointed out Callum Slattery was the Premiership's most fouled player. Further, he felt Slattery's arm had caught Cantwell across his shoulder blades and questioned why he went down holding his face. Big Dick who we know was, '"raised to absolutely hate Rangers" summed up with, "basically, Cantwell has cheated and hoodwinked the Referee".

 

When talking about events at ra Stade de Gadd, both Duffy and Kettlewell agreed Youan should not have been awarded a second yellow, VAR was correct in denying the award of a Sellik penalty as Abada had kicked the ground and, Starfelt's pulling of Hanlon's jersey was correctly punished with the award of a spot kick. Big Dick summed up with, "Martin Dowden asked Ange at the end if he was aware of Hibs displeasure with the match official? Ange replied he was standing yards from Lee Johnson and heard him complaining throughout the match and did not want to hear it again". Big Dick guffawed at Ange's rapier like wit. Maybe Sportsound should have had Lee Johnson on instead of Kettlewell?

 

 

Bring on another Bete Noir, this one's Burst.

 

It is the current PQ cri de coeur. It looks almost certain that Alfie will be departing at the end of this season and everyone has discussed the merits of the man and his football. Here on Gersnet, we indulged too. BBC Scotland demonised Alfie at every turn, Michael Stewart sat in both Sportscene and Sportsound studios smirking whilst the accompanying screen showed the Columbian's latest perceived sins unless, of course it was Alfie being pelted by opposition fans. There was one Sportscene evening in Alfie's first season where Michael Stewart had Morelos red carded against the hooped horrors on three separate occasions. The next day on Sportsound he begged the then Compliance Officer to become involved, offering the previous incumbent, Vincent Lunny always listened.

 

Last week Sheriff Lunny handed down justice to Father Neil McGarrity, parish Priest at St Thomas church in Glasgow. Fr Neil pleaded guilty to four counts of sexual grooming, sexual assaults and, one charge of engaging in sexual activity with a minor. McGarrity's victims were four girls between the ages of ten and fourteen years. Lunny sentenced him to 250 hours of community service and placed the cleric on the sex offenders register for five years. I cannot imagine such leniency for Rangers players would suit Michael?

 

Anyways, leniency appears to be in short supply for Todd Cantwell, he is a cheat and a hoodwinker according to Big Dick and RAB Cosgrove is on record as to not enjoying the Norfolk lad's accent. Bete Noir status awaits until another blue jersey comes into view.

[26th of foot 6,082]

Recipes?

 

A Recipe is a formula of ingredients and list of instructions for creating a prepared outcome. 

 

Mrs Beeton liked a recipe, she advised taking six rabbits and marinading Bugs and chums overnight in two pints of Dijon mustard for the best Lapin au Moutarde. Strict adherence is a necessary should you want to replicate quality, quantity and, costs. Mrs Beeton demanded uniformity, Lady Bracknell's floppies in mustard must taste the exact same as Miss Havisham's. Remember, the creation must be swallowed.

 

It has become increasingly obvious to Rangers supporters that PQ enjoys force feeding us, The Producers prepare the outcome and the usual suspects impose the spoon to our collective thorax. Scotland played Cyprus and there was an obvious fly in the ointment, a cleansing was required. Ryan Jack had been substituted by McTominay who subsequently netted a couple of late goals. Ryan Jack must not start against Spain and on the Sunday RAB Cosgrove asked guest, Derek Ferguson, "who was Scotland's dud"? A hesitant Derek said he did not want to answer and RAB assured him by saying, "I am setting you up". Derek answered, "Ryan Jack and we know he cannot play two games in a week". RAB replied, "watching yesterday, he cannae play wan".

 

The Celtic state of mind extends to PLZ Soccer. Peter McGuire aka Peter Martin saw the opportunity to be his beloved Sellik's main broadcast shill and founded PLZ(Peter, Linzi and, Zoe - himself, wife and, daughter), it is a five bob YouTube production with ten years of slavish adherence to the recipe. His regulars are Tam McManus, Hugh MacDonald, Alison McConnell and, Alan Rough. Peter continually insists, "we will give you an opinion"; in reality it is a continual Sellik opinion. He asked the token, Alan Rough who was Scotland's weakest link on the Monday show after Cyprus and the former Sellik Keeper answered, "it's got to be the Rangers player, the Ryan Jack fella".

 

You see the connection, a cleansing was required and Jack was expunged. More purchase was achieved by utilising the non-Sellik participants to deliver the blow. The most cowardly aspect to this whole episode is that after the Cyprus game, several sources reported Jack had been routinely booed again by sections of the Tartan Army. Neither PQ nor Peter McGuire's production mentioned this fact. I suspect the bitter aftertaste was deemed unnecessary by the provided recipe?

 

 

"Cheated and Hoodwinked" revisited.

 

We established in the last piece that PQ had no hesitation in allowing Motherwell Manager and first Team Coach, Stuart Kettlewell and Richard Foster unfettered access to both TV and radio to vent their spleens on the recipe pitched Rangers - VAR debate. The Cove Rangers PRO, Big Dick Gordon flashed his Rangers hating credentials by stating, "Todd Cantwell cheated and hoodwinked the referee". Now subsequently, Kettlewell has reconsidered his position since watching more of the VAR scenes and stated, "the officials and VAR got all the contentious decisions correct". Too late, the damage is done.

 

On return to domestic action we had a most similar incident involving a Rangers player, Tavernier and Dundee United defender, Aziz Behich. In the Main Stand/Copland corner, Tav' was booked for throwing out an arm whilst shielding the ball. Tav's fingers might have brushed the Arab's face? Behich threw his head back, clutched his face in both hands and, fell to the pitch in supposed agony. Behich's actions were a deliberate attempt to cheat and hoodwink the Ref' and, it worked. BBC Sportscene did NOT analyse the incident and BBC Sportsound did NOT talk about it. However, Sellik supporting Chris Iwelumo on Sportscene thought Rangers double scorer, Malik Tillman was deserving of a yellow card for attempting to cheat and hoodwink the Ref' when he was downed as he drove towards the United box. I am beginning to think Rangers next opponents must be PQ's favourite team?

 

A couple of decades past, there was a debate on the pages of a broadsheet newspaper on the defining recipe for the supper dish, potted shrimp. Essentially, it is Morecambe Bay brown shrimp cooked in clarified butter, transferred to ramekins and allowed to cool in the fridge. The idea is to tip the ramekin on to warm toast and allow the heat to melt the butter into the bread. The discussion raged on whether the appropriate spice in the butter was mace or nutmeg. I prefer mace, more of a combination of cinnamon and pepper that gives a warm comforting aftertaste. Those preferring nutmeg always call for a generous grating, you need more for a lesser effect.

 

Reference BBC Scotland and Rangers, the preferred spice is always two generous shovel loads of hate - it's like a Sellik state of mind.

 

 

 

  

[Scott7 6,008]

Sent unexpectedly this afternoon on an unexpected, tedious errand, I thought I’d give Sportsound a go to follow the fortunes of the Famous. The last time I heard a fragment of a commentary was December 2019. Today was just dreadful. There was no bias against Rangers. Indeed from time to time the summariser, Craiggen? Craggen?  - him, anyway - remarked that Rangers were playing quite well but whoever was doing the commentary was hopeless completely failing to describe play as they chatted learnedly about this and that. e.g. the summariser in all seriousness told me what St Mirren had to do, was get the ball, keep it and get it up into the Rangers box. I could work that out for myself. They rarely bothered to say where the ball actually was unless there was a likely shot at goal. My mission accomplished, I did not remain with them for the second half.

 

To find out if I am living hopelessly in the past when Peter Thomson liked to give what he called a sound picture of the game, a tradition ably carried on by Francey, Alexander and Begg, I listened to a bit of the R5 commentary City v Leicester. There it was. The sound picture. The commentator telling me where play was, who was in possession, the markers, runners, tacklers, the whole lot.

 

Sportsound is useless. Never mind the bias, the snarkiness and the bheggar adulation. They can’t even do the basics.

 

[Bill 13,717]

1 hour ago, Scott7 said:

I thought I’d give Sportsound a go

Schoolboy error.

[compo 7,043]

17 hours ago, Scott7 said:

Sent unexpectedly this afternoon on an unexpected, tedious errand, I thought I’d give Sportsound a go to follow the fortunes of the Famous. The last time I heard a fragment of a commentary was December 2019. Today was just dreadful. There was no bias against Rangers. Indeed from time to time the summariser, Craiggen? Craggen?  - him, anyway - remarked that Rangers were playing quite well but whoever was doing the commentary was hopeless completely failing to describe play as they chatted learnedly about this and that. e.g. the summariser in all seriousness told me what St Mirren had to do, was get the ball, keep it and get it up into the Rangers box. I could work that out for myself. They rarely bothered to say where the ball actually was unless there was a likely shot at goal. My mission accomplished, I did not remain with them for the second half.

 

To find out if I am living hopelessly in the past when Peter Thomson liked to give what he called a sound picture of the game, a tradition ably carried on by Francey, Alexander and Begg, I listened to a bit of the R5 commentary City v Leicester. There it was. The sound picture. The commentator telling me where play was, who was in possession, the markers, runners, tacklers, the whole lot.

 

Sportsound is useless. Never mind the bias, the snarkiness and the bheggar adulation. They can’t even do the basics.

 

Thompson was never the same commentator after Stein dragged him into a room at Parkhead for a good ear bashing and it worked because next time it was all , Jinky Buzz Bomb and Wispy to name but a few 

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The Sellik State of Mind Narrative.

 

PQ have made the decision to increase their hours of football output on a Saturday. It is now a guaranteed seven hours from Noon until 19.00hrs. The last hour and a half are filled with a special guest(last week it was Sanjeev Kholi) and selected groupings of club supporters contacted on their way home from a game. BBC Scotland have a number of Sellik supporting Staffers at the top end of the organisation; there's Chris McLaughlin as Sports Correspondent, Tom English as Chief Sports Writer, Kheredine Idessanne as Sports Reporter, ........ etc. What is required to keep up the hate are edgy Sellik supporters from Podcasts - websites that can deliver the killer one liners.

 

As discussed in earlier pieces, A Celtic State of Mind has been chosen and a couple of members have already been appearing across the spectrum, notably Amy Canavan. The Bonnyrigg Rose prickled again on The View from the Terrace. A review of season 2008 had a mention of the number of games faced by Rangers in achieving status as UEFA Cup finalists. Amy delivered the killer lines that the big competition that season like any other was the Premiership and that was won by her beloved Sellik, no mention of the three day extended season. Amy has utilised her appearance on this show to articulate her disdain for Scots clubs achieving Euro finalist status. Earlier in the season, she told of family jumping up and dancing around the room as Aaron Ramsey had his penalty saved in last season's Europa Cup final.

 

The reappearance of Sanjeev Kholi is equally interesting. Along with another Sellik supporter, Greg Hemphill they were the first co-hosts of Off the Ball 28 years past. Sanjeerv secured the job by taking to the Sunday papers to establish his credentials. Charleen Sweeney was the Editor of Scotland on Sunday's current affairs supplement, 'Seven Days'. In a three page exclusive, he told of being educated privately at St Aloysius College, Glasgow. Along with his two brothers, they were the only Rangers supporters attending the school. His support changed to Sellik after witnessing Mark Walters debut at Sellik Park on the second of January'88.

 

Sanjeev's contribution was the very epitome of revisionism. He told of being in the Rangers end, seeing fellow Rangers supporters in Gorilla suits and several hundred bananas being lobbed from the Rangers end on to the pitch. Charleen loved the revisionism, the next week she published a one paragraph piece of correspondence disagreeing with Sanjeev's recollection. The following week, two pieces of correspondence were worthy of publication, both were penned by Sanjeev's brothers. The sex pest, Hardeep took several paragraphs to say nothing and the other, s senior Met' Officer talked about discrimination.

 

Job done, Sanjeev was confirmed as Off the Ball host. Later that year, two Glasgow Uni' Undergrads died in a basement flat with barred windows fire in West Princes Street, Glasgow. The barred windows contravened the city council license and the Kholi familys several hundred licenses were immediately investigated. The conclusion was a withdrawal of in excess of 250 of the licenses and the family were accused of being slum Landlords. A banner at a Rangers match soon after proclaimed, 'Sanjeev Kholi - a Liar and Slum Landlord'. The Polis removed said banner telling the truth. The Kholi family live a charmed life with the Police. Despite two separate investigations into Hardeep's sex pesting, he has not faced charges but no longer appears on anything. Maybe the third brother's occupation has an influence?

 

No show without Punch, RAB Cosgrove revisited Mark Walters debut three years past. We were back to a carpet of bananas in front of the Jungle but the whole signing was deliberately framed as part and parcel, integral really in the signing of Maurice Johnston, portrayed as Rangers first catholic signing. Archie 'Punch' Kyle played in excess of 200 games for Rangers at the turn of the nineteenth-twentieth centuries, the Rangers Historian stated he was Rangers thirty-first RC signing. RAB created a show without Punch and John Spencer. When Mo' signed he doubled the number of catholics at the Club. There is a documentary to be made and, should be made why Rangers signed only half-a-dozen RCs between 1922 and 1988. Do it and tell the truth.

 

Talking of truth sayers, last week's immediate post old firm guest is another teller of ra Sellik truth. Paul English has been a regular Off the Ball guest over the years, a former Daily Record showbiz Journo, he is now just another PQ Staffer. He was the equivalent of the wee guy at the front of a swaggering Orange Band, the stick was being twirled and launched with a ton of triumphalism. He was anxious to compare and contrast with Rangers glory days, "when they were paying the piper ..... wait a minute did they pay the piper"? Guffaws around the studio were only quelled when Paul delivered the message, under AngeBall, Sellik are unstoppable. Neither of the Dynamic Duo mentioned, dared mention Bodo Glimt.

 

Ra Sellik state of mind will continue until a battalion on Pat Bonner-Bots are the norm' - who cares about the names of the opposition players, we only broadcast to praise ra Sellik.

[der Berliner 3,744]

Has anyone actually checked how many of our signings since 1988 were actually RCs? It is kind of "interesting" to see m(h)edia people drumming that drum, when in fact it is only them who keep this up and "hot". Somehow, you have to validate your existence as a journalist, it seems.

[Bill 13,717]

1 hour ago, der Berliner said:

Has anyone actually checked how many of our signings since 1988 were actually RCs? It is kind of "interesting" to see m(h)edia people drumming that drum, when in fact it is only them who keep this up and "hot". Somehow, you have to validate your existence as a journalist, it seems.

That could be a useful bit of ammunition.

[Gonzo79 15,294]

That lot are still annoyed about us signing Maurice Johnston 30 odd years ago.

 

And they're still annoyed about our made up (by them) non-RC signing policy.  

 

It's no wonder they're so messed up, paranoid and delusional when all they can focus on are negatives.  They really hate us, regardless of what we do.