Six days after Richard Gordon’s Press & Journal column was seized on by Internet Bampots, Graham Spiers has attempted to divert attention away from the penalty statistics that shame Scottish football.
As he put together the stats for a 68 match run without having a penalty awarded against them in the SPFL the Radio Scotland presenter concluded that there must be a bias from Scottish referees to produce that run.
Last season Celtic had seven penalties awarded against them including two in the first match involving VAR. Since Kevin Clancy awarded Aberdeen a penalty against the Ibrox Tribute Act in January 2022 there has been two changes of UK Prime Minister, two new Messiah’s at Ibrox and a UK Coronation.
This is bold from Richard Gordon, a BBC Sportsound presenter: Scottish referees are biased towards Rangers.
Does he say this quite so brazenly on air? https://t.co/R0SvEkp0lR— Graham Spiers (@GrahamSpiers) December 8, 2023
Despite the overwhelming evidence that something isn’t quite right Spiers has used Gordon’s column to cast doubt on his role at BBC Scotland, the unwavering backers of all things Ibrox led by Kenny Macintyre, Alasdair Lamont, Jane Lewis, Steven Thompson, Kenny Miller and Neil McCann with House Paddy Tom English to tick inclusivity boxes.
It is an interesting angle, Gordon looks like following the bolshie Jim Spence out the door but since the article was published the run without a penalty has risen to 70, closing in on the Barcelona record of 74 which has resulted in an investigation over £7m paid to a consultancy run by the Head of Spanish referees.
For all but two weeks of the 70 match run the Ibrox club have been the second best team in Scotland. Under van Bronckhorst, Beale and Clement fans have hardly been treated to peak Barca.
Clancy will be back in charge of matters today when Dundee visit Ibrox, with the mainstream unable to resist a matter being monitored match by match by the Bampots the pressure grows on referees not to become the first to apply the Laws of the Game to an Ibrox defender.
In April 2021 Euan Anderson ended a 44 match run of no penalties being awarded against the Ibrox side when he pointed to the spot for St Johnstone in a 1-1 draw against Steven Gerrard’s side.
Should ask Jim Spence what happens if you say something on air against rangers
— Everysecondfriday (@Everysecondfri3) December 8, 2023
Graham, I’m interested as to why you said its a bold move to write the piece? He’s merely stating a fact is he not? They haven’t conceded a pen in all that time when every league has observed a rise in pens since var came in.
— N83N (@MMB81809513) December 8, 2023
Absolutely it is. Hence my post.
— Graham Spiers (@GrahamSpiers) December 8, 2023
Absolute bull and you know it. It’s an opinion piece in which he gives his opinion based on the relevant available data. What’s your opinion based on the same data?
— JustEddie (@edwardrice1) December 8, 2023
We all know why! Take a guess but I know 95% of them are Rangers fans, Graham admitted as much!
— StuRam (@Sturam78) December 8, 2023
A bit like how they have twisted the victim and survival myth for the Klanbase.
— BishopWrong@nok4U2 (@Brockee2Poppy) December 8, 2023
Now if Sky Sports decides to do a ‘follow up ‘ story about the statistical fact of the Rangers penalty situation … we might get somewhere ? Please don’t hold your breath without consulting a doctor first !
Spiers is the SMSM ‘journalist’ I dislike the most.
He pretends to be a cut above the rest, but he was just as bad / obedient /
subservient as ALL the others in the SMSM around the collapse of RFC and since.
Spiers’ game is always the same:
he pops up randomly with something that is either bang on the money,
– i.e. truthful, but controversial for admitting this truth –
or he just says something controversial to get a reaction.
But, he then disappears, or immediately drops the subject to move onto something else.
Spiers might have better grammar and writing skills, but he’s still just a Keef Jackson,
but with a plummy voice.
[Don’t normally do personalised rants, but can’t help myself. 🙂 ]
I noticed Spiers has changed his photo from the nerdy little schoolboy to a beardy grown up one.
This guy represents all that is bad about Scottish football as he come across as well educated and intellegent yet he buys into the myth of a resurrected Rangers. To use “bold” is definitely to damn by faint praise.
It fell to Spiers and others to decry Charles Green’s “Frankenstein” club when it first raised its ugly head but they didn’t and the pollution of football in this country continues.
“Intelligent” even.
sevco don’t get their record-braking penalties randomly. They are usually a goal behind when they are awarded.
There is proof therefore that they are strategically awarded, causing further evidence that the football in fair Caledonia is not all as fair as it seems!
Spiers is a freak of nature. He is an intelligent individual, but he is born into a proddy sevco / Rangers culture, a thing over which he had no control. Eexcept that he doesn’t have the guts to leave it. And so he is an apologist for them!
The difference between animals and Rangers fans is that animals don’t try to murder policemen, as rioting Huns did after the Europa League Final at Manchester in 2008 after their team lost. They did the same in Barcelona in 1972 when they WON!
Spiers cannot walk away from his roots. Bad luck to him therefore and so he can expect no sympathy from me, while he tries to justify what he knows he should know better about.