The downfall of the house of Leggo
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Aye, amazing how all those old blogs from 2011 and 2012 seemed to conveniently disappear off his site.
Leggo seems to think a Judge will not take Whyte's word as he is a proven Liar, as far as I recall he's never admitted lying, whereas Chuckles...
Wednesday, 10 April 2013
ODIOUS CREEP'S NEIL PATEY CLAIMS COULD LEAD TO COURT ACTION
JUST how much damage is the irresponsible journalism of Odious Creep doing to the Herald, a paper he pockets £50,000-a-year from for producing drivel on a part time basis? (50k per year? How much must that hurt you Leggo?)
And a paper so hard up that it is so short staffed it did not have a staff sports writer available to cover the Rangers game against Queens Park at Hampden last Saturday. (who cares? it's only a 3rd division match)
These are surely dire days for a once mighty paper, now reduced to the ranks of being a wee local rag which has to hide its plummeting circulation from advertisers for six months at a time. (is that so? why haven't you mention this before?)
Perhaps that answers my original question. Odious Creep’s presence in the Herald, both the paper and the on-line edition, is doing untold damage to the Herald’s reputation for employing proper journalists.
That is, journalists who stick to the facts (a quality you were obviously incapable of). Journalists who are accurate (ditto). Journalists who are honest (ditto). Odious Creep does not stick to the facts. Odious Creep is not accurate. Therefore, some may say, Odious Creep is not honest. (you've got to admire leggo's Gödel-inspired logic here)
Yet he sails under the Herald’s colours when he appears on BBC Radio Scotland and on television too (erm, no he doesn't). Therefore, every time he spouts, in that curious lisping delivery, something which is proven to be just plain factually wrong, he taints the Herald.
For he represents that once proud paper, whose legendary leader writer S.L “Sam” McKinlay, a stickler for the facts, for accuracy and for truth, was my first editor when I joined the Evening Times way back in the mid 1960s.
When Odious Creep appeared on television and claimed he had never called Rangers cheats, he was representing the Herald. When Chris Graham wiped the floor with Creep and proved that he had, Creep simply sulked. The picture of him, captured for all eternity, is a classic of a wee boy whose scone has been well and truly stolen (scone? what?)
But his latest nonsense really did defy description when, not having learned his lesson, he blustered once again when on the airwaves with the excellent Chris Graham from The Rangers Standard. This time Creep spouted, as though it were a fact cast in stone, something which was patent rubbish. (is this the same Chris Graham who, on the same show, had to reluctantly admit that the **** was on it's way to hitting the fan down Govan way?)
Odious Creep insisted Rangers are a new club. Chris Graham called summoned the verdict of two Law Lords, the SFA, UEFA and FIFA to refute this wild and totally unjustified claim by Odious Creep. A claim which is the standard script of all Rangers haters.
Creep then tried to lay claim to various anonymous financial experts to back his spurious spew of nonsense and when pressed finally summoned the name of Neil Patey, every newspaper and broadcaster’s go-to-guy on footballing financial stories. Patey, Odious Creep insisted, had said Rangers are a new club.
Except he didn’t. Neil Patey had said no such thing. For Neil Patey is a professional man, an intelligent man, a man who knows what he is talking about. In short, Neil Patey is everything Odious Creep is not. On Monday Neil Patey spoke to Chris Graham and made his position crystal clear. Oldco and Newco are legal entities which have owned and now own the club. Rangers the club and are quite simply, Rangers. Always were and still are.
Chris Graham then blogged on The Rangers Standard and produced a wonderful clinical dissection of Odious Creep as he dismantled Odious Creep’s maniacal claims and with them any last vestige of any journalistic credibility Odious Creep had. (yet he'll be going into work today unlike you who was recently sent packing from the NUJ)
It was a wonderful job which Chris Graham did on Odious Creep. But not as good as the one Creep did on himself when, within minutes of the Rangers Standard blog appearing, Creep took to Twitter to continuing to insist Rangers are a new club and that Neil Patey had said so. Had it been a couple of weeks earlier I would have kept my ear open for a cock crowing. Three times.
However, despite all of this evidence of what many of his colleagues inside both the BBC and the Herald, not to mention the wider world of journalism, believe to be Odious Creep’s dire incompetence, the Herald continue to employ a man who hasn’t even got a clue what is going in his own industry, far less in the world of football.
Let me tell you a story to illustrate just how out of touch he is. Odious Creep paid a brief visit to the Herald editorial to meet new editor Magnus Llewelin. He had his baby daughter with him. He was overheard to make a disparaging remark about one of the most popular and well liked sports writers in Scotland, Michael Baillie, known to all with great affection as Pup.
How, Odious Creep was heard to muse, could someone like Michael Baillie make a living as a freelance. The answer is that he hasn’t been a freelance for a year and is a staff sports writer with the Scottish Daily Express. The Pup did operate for a number of years as a freelance and did make a living, as he was industrious, diligent and painstaking when it came to facts. As well as being popular with football folk and his colleagues. Indeed, all the things Odious Creep is not.
He comes across as slothful, sloppy and with no regard for the facts, plus sneeringly arrogant, deeply unpleasant. I also know for a fact that Odious Creep is extremely unpopular with the overwhelming majority of his press pack colleagues. Even the ones who talk to him.
But back to Neil Patey, the latest name to be taken in vain (is Neil Patey a God now?) by Odious Creep. Patey is a professional man whose intelligence, understanding and knowledge of his subject, along with his integrity are the tools of his profession. They have been impugned by Odious Creep who was caught bang to rights, live on BBC Scotland (was it not on STV?), while sailing under the Herald’s colours and further damaging the paper’s reputation.
But, then again, I would expect no more from Odious Creep. (I'm beginning to think you don't like him)
I wonder if Neil Patey’s lawyers will get involved? (no) It wouldn’t be the first time m’learned friends had to be called upon to curb the wilder excesses of Odious Creep’s imagination and silence his lies. As he is well aware. (as, of course, do you Mr Leggat)
I posted a piss take 'blog' on here a couple of days ago (#2382). It does not do justice to the sheer absurdity of the above.
It says a lot about Leggo that, when the first nuggets of turd begin to hit the fan at Ibrox, he ignores it and instead rehashes blog no. 3627453 in his series on Odious Creep 
What a champion this man is for the cause. Imagine referring to an old TV programme rather than the one last night in which CG got made to look a fool
Buns deserve all that's coming their way.
What a champion this man is for the cause. Imagine referring to an old TV programme rather than the one last night in which CG got made to look a fool
Buns deserve all that's coming their way.
Wasn't one of his old articles about how Ki was a racist disgrace and shouldn't be allowed to play in Scotland ever again
Aye that's right, who was he supposed to be Racist against? The Chinks? Or was it Dagoes or Wops?
Was it not when South Korea played Japan and he did some wee chimp impression!? Leggo must have been beelin
Ki came up with all sorts of excuses - one was "it was to highlight racism" and one was "it was because of racist Scottish fans"???
Someone on 606 (Ismael, some other backwards ****wit) changed his username to be about Ki the racist
did you see graham contradict himself on scotland tonight from sat at bbc sportsound
a wee bit more from chris graham
http://kerrydalestreet.co.uk/single/?p=11614818&t=8707052
To be honest, I don't usually bother with him or his blogs. He's a slightly less mental version of Leggo.
[h=2]Thursday, 11 April 2013[/h][h=3]SPORTS WRITER ACCUSED OF RACIST LANGUAGE[/h]
WHEN it comes to low life gutter journalism, the red tops can’t hold a candle to the once mighty and highly respected Herald.
For the Herald has now slithered from the gutter to the sewers. And it is all because of their £50,000-a-year part timer, the sloppy, shoddy and totally irresponsible Odious Creep.
Yesterday I commented on how he had misrepresented the views of football financial expert Neil Patey and then, even after Patey restated his belief in the legally acknowledged fact that Rangers are not a new club, Creep took to Twitter to continue to contradict the essence of what Patey said.
I finished by remarking that the matter way well lead to the involvement of m’learned friends as Patey seeks to protect his professional reputation from the slip shod journalism of the Herald’s Odious Creep.
Since then, Odious Creep’s already deplorably low journalistic standards have slipped again. Is there no low to which Odious Creep will not slither? It seems not.
For Creep has accused one of the biggest and most prominent names in Scottish sports journalism of regularly resorting to the sort of racist language which has got Charles Green into trouble.
However, with his usual total disregard for normal good sound journalistic practice, Odious Creep fails to name the Scottish sports journalist who he has levelled such a serious accusation at.
Creep wrote in the Herald's on-line edition that in the early 1990s there was an old Scottish football writer of past years, who, when drink went down his throat, suddenly liked nothing better than to talk of “darkies” and wogs,” to repeat the exact words Odious Creep used in the Herald.
But by writing in such an imprecise way, Odious Creep did not make it clear if the person he makes this wild and totally unsubstantiated racist accusation against is alive, or is now dead.
Certainly there are many of the men who fit the Creep description of having been a Scottish sports journalist of years past who fall into either category.
So where does that leave the many who were around then, but who are now retired? The ones the “years past” line seems to indicate he has in mind? Perhaps being eyed suspiciously at the golf club by their fellow members, many of whom may now be wondering if the old sports hack they have shared many a four ball with is actually a racist?
That is what happens when reasonable journalistic care is not taken and there are countless examples of Odious Creep failing to take reasonable journalistic care.
That is why no responsible newspaper would have allowed Odious Creep to write such irresponsible, potentially personally damaging stuff and why no proper newspaper executive would have allowed it to appear in either the real newspaper or its online version.
Which tells you a lot about the weakling who inherited the editor’s chair at the Herald in February, Magnus Llewellin and his long serving sports editor, former Celtic View editor Donald Cowie, who is another wimp.
And where does that leave the Scottish Football Writers Association, whose members are increasingly touchy these days? Most of the old timers – all of whom are now under suspicion – are members of the SFWA. Will the SFWA issue a statement asking the Herald to insist Odious Creep names the man he has in mind in order to clear the many others who are Scottish football writers of years past, who are now retired and are blameless of the racist rhetoric Odious Creep has accused them of?
Let me say right now, that I knew all the of the giants who made up the Scottish sports pack nearly half a century ago. I was with them in Italy for the 1990 World Cup Finals. At no time did I ever hear any of those greats, many of whom actually fought against the Nazis and Fascists, utter one racist word. And I was in their company often enough when drink went past a lot of throats, mine included, during that golden summer.
However, I did not hear any of my old revered colleagues and friends utter any of the words Odious Creep has conjured from his memory.
Unless, of course, they did not come from his memory at all, but from his imagination.
........
AND.......
TOMORROW.....The inside story on the crisis which engulfs Rangers!
WHEN it comes to low life gutter journalism, the red tops can’t hold a candle to the once mighty and highly respected Herald.
For the Herald has now slithered from the gutter to the sewers. And it is all because of their £50,000-a-year part timer, the sloppy, shoddy and totally irresponsible Odious Creep.
Yesterday I commented on how he had misrepresented the views of football financial expert Neil Patey and then, even after Patey restated his belief in the legally acknowledged fact that Rangers are not a new club, Creep took to Twitter to continue to contradict the essence of what Patey said.
I finished by remarking that the matter way well lead to the involvement of m’learned friends as Patey seeks to protect his professional reputation from the slip shod journalism of the Herald’s Odious Creep.
Since then, Odious Creep’s already deplorably low journalistic standards have slipped again. Is there no low to which Odious Creep will not slither? It seems not.
For Creep has accused one of the biggest and most prominent names in Scottish sports journalism of regularly resorting to the sort of racist language which has got Charles Green into trouble.
However, with his usual total disregard for normal good sound journalistic practice, Odious Creep fails to name the Scottish sports journalist who he has levelled such a serious accusation at.
Creep wrote in the Herald's on-line edition that in the early 1990s there was an old Scottish football writer of past years, who, when drink went down his throat, suddenly liked nothing better than to talk of “darkies” and wogs,” to repeat the exact words Odious Creep used in the Herald.
But by writing in such an imprecise way, Odious Creep did not make it clear if the person he makes this wild and totally unsubstantiated racist accusation against is alive, or is now dead.
Certainly there are many of the men who fit the Creep description of having been a Scottish sports journalist of years past who fall into either category.
So where does that leave the many who were around then, but who are now retired? The ones the “years past” line seems to indicate he has in mind? Perhaps being eyed suspiciously at the golf club by their fellow members, many of whom may now be wondering if the old sports hack they have shared many a four ball with is actually a racist?
That is what happens when reasonable journalistic care is not taken and there are countless examples of Odious Creep failing to take reasonable journalistic care.
That is why no responsible newspaper would have allowed Odious Creep to write such irresponsible, potentially personally damaging stuff and why no proper newspaper executive would have allowed it to appear in either the real newspaper or its online version.
Which tells you a lot about the weakling who inherited the editor’s chair at the Herald in February, Magnus Llewellin and his long serving sports editor, former Celtic View editor Donald Cowie, who is another wimp.
And where does that leave the Scottish Football Writers Association, whose members are increasingly touchy these days? Most of the old timers – all of whom are now under suspicion – are members of the SFWA. Will the SFWA issue a statement asking the Herald to insist Odious Creep names the man he has in mind in order to clear the many others who are Scottish football writers of years past, who are now retired and are blameless of the racist rhetoric Odious Creep has accused them of?
Let me say right now, that I knew all the of the giants who made up the Scottish sports pack nearly half a century ago. I was with them in Italy for the 1990 World Cup Finals. At no time did I ever hear any of those greats, many of whom actually fought against the Nazis and Fascists, utter one racist word. And I was in their company often enough when drink went past a lot of throats, mine included, during that golden summer.
However, I did not hear any of my old revered colleagues and friends utter any of the words Odious Creep has conjured from his memory.
Unless, of course, they did not come from his memory at all, but from his imagination.
........
AND.......
TOMORROW.....The inside story on the crisis which engulfs Rangers!