The Daily Record has been slaughtered for their off the radar coverage of Calvin Bassey.
Not content with fantasy tales of £25m bids coming in and comparisons to Kieran Tierney and Virgil van Dijk the Glasgow based publisher took things a few steps further today.
Nigeria’s 1-0 defeat by Ecuador in a friendly looks pretty low key but where there is a will there is a way.
Apparently Bassey’s performance in the match stunned the world! Yes, stunned the world, in an end of season friendly held in the United States since neither country could muster up enough interest to host the match.
The only goal of the game came from a free-kick into the Nigerian penalty box, Bassey was posted missing as the ball was headed past his goalkeeper.
Calvin Bassey stuns world as Rangers star lands prestigious award and earns ‘massive’ Nigeria verdicthttps://t.co/mKmWUJanMe pic.twitter.com/akXHITUjyQ
— Daily Record Sport (@Record_Sport) June 3, 2022
???? Who writes this stuff. ????
— Tam (@TamMcKenna1888) June 3, 2022
FFS??? It’s embarrassing
— TheEssexHoops (Jamie) (@hoops_essex) June 3, 2022
“Stuns world” – it was a friendly.
— StuG (@StuG92) June 3, 2022
STUNS THE WORLD ?????
What the feck yer sales at noo in Scotland ? Ibrox capacity
— BOXER (@boxertoye) June 3, 2022
Stuns world, without the world ever knowing
— John Perry (@perryslaw) June 3, 2022
Talk about “feel good pish” this is right up there.
— Big C L (@BigCL81) June 3, 2022
He’s come along way from that Ross County game, were his horrific defending allowed us to go top and stay there. Cheers Calvin!
— William Mckenna (@mcklennox79) June 3, 2022
And so the Scottish laptop loyal go “all in” at the behest of David Graham to tell fibs and how wonderful he is to get the ££!!
— G man (@jesuitcrusader1) June 3, 2022
This a parody?
— Dundeebhoy? (@dundeeBHOY) June 3, 2022
How often do we read and hear this shit.
Every season there is a massive push to increase a players value.
Morelos was the last one. The amount of pish that was written. Barca, Real Madrid, EPL clubs….the list goes on.
Really started to see this with Fleck.
— Hoopy (@hoopybhoy21) June 3, 2022
Petrofac cup was bigger than the pub league competition ????????
— john mojo (@JohnMor93129299) June 3, 2022
I am stunned…that such drivel passes for journalism.
Two weeks of every hack in Scotland and ex hun players hawking him and no bites , it’s reaching such desperation stages that they’re claiming the world is stunned by a performance in a defeat against Ecuador in a friendly .
Crazy stuff .
The point where sycophancy and parody collide. Even Chris Jack looks at that and thinks “…a bit much, no?”.
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