BBC Scotland’s Chris McLaughlin found himself under attack after tweeting that Scottish football should heel and move on.
Forgetting a decade of cheating isn’t an option for the vast majority of football fans.
Having the BBC and others trying to claim that the current Sevco club are in fact the Rangers Football Club (in liquidation) is a sick joke at the expense of 276 creditors and those forced to pay a BBC licence fee.
I can understand the sporting advantage argument and calls for review but also have sympathy with need for our game to heal and move on.
— Chris McLaughlin (@BBCchrismclaug) July 6, 2017
Can’t move on while the stain remains, every player in the sordid affair needs expunged from the game
— Rebel Booty (@astarterforten) July 6, 2017
How did cycling “move on” after the Lance Armstrong scandal?
Are you happy being a shill for sporting corruption?— Phil MacGiollaBhain (@Pmacgiollabhain) July 6, 2017
Chris can I ask how you think the game will “heal” if there are no consequences? This is a zero sum game-one point of view has to lose out.
— Celtic Underground (@celticrumours) July 7, 2017
Think you make fair point especially given numbers who feel aggrieved but not sure it’s as black and white as one side losing out. Never is.
— Chris McLaughlin (@BBCchrismclaug) July 7, 2017
Get some RFC fans, get some of other clubs and have a debate. Ask for governing body input. This story is 17 years in the making
— George Just (@gjust67) July 7, 2017
Move on?
Same guys r at the club.
Same guys in charge.
Same mistakes made.
Moving on isn’t ‘more Plan A’, that’s the opposite of moving on.— Jaq (@chernychai) July 6, 2017
5 years on & fans feel as betrayed today as they did then, game does need to heal & IMO only way to do that is by voiding ill gained honours
— Inside The SPFL (@AgentScotland) July 6, 2017
@BBCchrismclaug sporting advantage is not an argument, it is a fact. Our national sport will never heal as long as it is run by crooks!
— George Scott (@GeorgetheScott) July 6, 2017
With EBT architects Dave King, Paul Murray, Andrew Dickson and Alastair ‘Taggart’ Johnston let loose in the corridors of power anything is possible from the current football custodians.
The ‘no appetite’ message certainly doesn’t appear to reflect that attitude of supporters who rallied in 2012 when the clubs and authorities tried to parachute the new club in to one of the top two divisions.
McLaughlin is often used to push certain messages with one interview with Neil Doncaster specially arranged to put out the claim from the former Norwich City supremo that liquidation of Rangers FC in 2012 didn’t actually happen.
Hundreds of fans took to twitter, predictably McLaughlin highlighted the abusive replies rather than engage in a debate that trashes his argument and the message from the sinister men behind the scenes.