How ridiculous can BBC Scotland get?
With administration around the corner and no sign of peace among the warring factions even some sections of the Sevco support are starting to wake up to the impeding disaster that has been predicted by internet bampots since the turn of the year.
Even the release of accounts showing £1m plus a month losses hasn’t dampened the enthusiasm of the BBC in their bid to produce good news on the hope of one day covering ‘an Old Firm match’ although that phrase died a death last summer when Rangers went into liquidation.
Deflecting attention away from a crisis is always helpful with the BBC claiming that two leading former Premiership chief executives, Rick Parry (Liverpool) and Garry Cook (Manchester City), were in line for the chief executive vacancy at Ibrox!
More realistically Sevco specialist Al Lamont added in the name of Scott Gardiner from Dundee as a candidate- to no one’s surprise Gardiner turned down the offer this morning.
That story emerged alongwith news of Police Scotland taking action on the Pinsent Masons report into Craig Whyte’s involvement with the Third Division champions.
In a nameless piece still sitting on the state broadcasters website the BBC gushed: “Another topic of discussion was the potential candidates for a chief executive position at Rangers.
“The names of former Liverpool chief executive Rick Parry and Garry Cook, who held a similar position at Manchester City, have been mentioned.
“Scot Gardiner, currently chief executive at Dundee, is also among those under consideration.”
Given that news from a trusted Ibrox insider/source surely someone somewhere at the BBC is capable of seeing through the spin to realise that there is no chance of Cook or Parry appearing on the Sevco website declaring their admiration for Ally McCoist’s magnificent management skills while revelling in the glory of 141 years of magnificent history.
Alas, no.
There is more chance of BT Sport headhunting Lamont and colleague Kenny McIntyre to front their Champions League coverage than Parry or Cook appearing on the Ibrox payroll.
The broadcaster that takes money from every household in the UK doesn’t have anyone capable of realising that only the most desperate of characters would consider being associated with the current Ibrox regime fronted by the Greenock based transport operators James and Sandy Easdale.
Considering the BBC housed and provided a platform for James Traynor to back anything and everything coming out of Ibrox it’s understandable if old habits die hard among the sports team at BBC Scotland.
Just as Scottish football requires honesty and transparency from the SFA so to it needs a balanced and fair interpretation of events from the state broadcaster.
While Lamont and his cronies unquestioningly transmit everything they are told from their sources and insiders fans of the Ibrox clubs will remain in the dark while internet bampots laugh and sneer as the events that killed off the old club are repeated on it’s 2012 version.
Only Jim Spence and Richard Gordon appear capable of applying some realism on events at Ibrox but both men seem to be increasingly marginalised for their less credible colleagues such as Lamont and brother-in-arms McIntyre.