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Discussion in 'General Chat' started by Timpers, Jun 13, 2011.

  1. Timpers

    Timpers New Member

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    With transfer speculation all over the papers now the Football season is over, I would welcome opinions from all Football supporters on which journalists (if any) you respect the most be it accurate transfer stories or interesting articles?
     
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  2. Lightfoot

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    Of little or no interest or relevance 'dahn sarff' but Jim Traynor is quite posisbly the best sports journo working today. Closely followed by Charles 'Chick' Young. <ok>
     
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  3. Otto Flayshow

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  4. Erik

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    <laugh> <laugh> <laugh> <laugh> <laugh>
     
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  5. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Graham Spiers is the only Scottish journalist with the balls to tell the truth.
     
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  6. Lightfoot

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    Stereo - gies peace man <doh> Speirs is a wee lap log when it suits him - just like the rest of them. There was a time when he was SDMs personal mouthpiece.

    JT pisses off EVERYONE in Scottish football, cos he calls it as he sees it <ok>
     
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    <laugh><laugh><laugh>
     
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  8. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Traynor's just a WUM.

    He writes to provoke a reaction among the sort of dim-witted arseholes who read the Daily Record. Those aren't opinions, they are mere phenakism.
     
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  9. Lightfoot

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    Stereo. That is PRECISELY the point. The guy deliberately winds up fans of EVERY club for a reason. His job is to sell newspapers and airtime. He's not gonna do that by being bland, 'Mr Nice Gut I've Got No Opinions', is he? No, he's gonna stir it up - precisely for the reason you give - to get a reaction from fan-dans like us. He does his job superbly well.
     
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  10. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Not well enough judging by what's happened in the past couple of weeks.

    Is it true the DR journalists are the lowest paid among the national newspaper media in Scotland? You knew things were bad when they gave Tam Cowan his own (non-football) column.
     
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    Tranyor's true colours were shown in his very public fallout with Chick Young.

    A Daily Record Journalist. <laugh>
     
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    Hugh McIllvanney is THE only respected sports journalist today <ok>

    The rest are mere illiterates with processors.
     
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  13. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    Tom English at the Hootsman isn't too bad.
     
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  14. Thomas The Cat

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    They are all dicks
     
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    Otto Flayshow Well-Known Member

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    There hasn't been any proper investigative journalism in the UK since 'The Searching Beak of Emu'.

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    Des Kelly and Paul Hayward are the best.

    The worst are the Mirror idiots

    Particularly Oliver Holt and David Maddock who are both dickheads
     
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  17. Mick

    Mick Probably won't answer PMs
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    I've noticed the Scotsman getting more hunnish in the last year or so, some quotes and allegations in the last few months in particular could have been lifted straight from Follow Follow.
     
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  18. Whole-lot-of-Holt_HtH

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    Maltese Mick can you allow me back on the instant messager thing on the homepage? Dont know why Im even banned from it
     
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  19. The Raging Oxter

    The Raging Oxter Well-Known Member

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    I dunno. I don't read it very often. Have you seen the riff-raff they employ?

    At least Tom English was the only journalist who had the balls to tell Rangers that they only had themselves to blame for getting into trouble with UEFA over sectarian singing. All the others were pointing the finger at Celtic fans, shady anti-sectarian organisations etc.
     
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  20. Otto Flayshow

    Otto Flayshow Well-Known Member

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    You mean it's more intelligent, urbane and sophisticated?
     
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