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28-09-2022, 02:46 PM
I offered this to Longbangers as I could hear Matty reading it out with some suitably sombre music playing in the background but I think Longbangers have probably talked enough about this particular subject. However, in light of Porteous's great debut display for Scotland, I thought it worth giving it an airing because a young, gifted player preparing to make his debut in a crucial game for his country came under utterly unfair attack from a manager and the media; so I thought ****** them. Here it is...
The Gobby Goody Appeal
We have all seen the tragic images of Jim Goodwin struggling to come to terms with the team he currently manages finishing in tenth place in a league that even included Hearts. How he tries to turn every setback into a victory. He’s just that kind of guy. But his mouth has now got him into trouble once more after yet another failure by his team, when he attempted to turn reality on its head. His argument was so weak that it was utterly accepted by the experts on Sportscene, Sportsound and even The Daily Record, all of whom are recognised for their genius and their recent promotion of a ‘more competitive’ four team Scottish Premier League made up of Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Rangers again, with no relegation.
As a player ‘Goody’ was described by his own club at the time, St Mirren, as “being no angel” and admitted to a sympathetic journalist friend that he “had an image problem”, but that he was “determined to turn over a new leaf.” He was only a young boy of 31 at the time. He said it himself in his own emotionally charged words “I’m aware that I’m picking up too many yellow cards – I’ll hold up my hands to that. The majority of them are deserved but there’s one or two – or maybe three – that were a bit harsh.” Those two, or maybe three, bookings that were, in his own words “a bit harsh” had a crippling effect on his state of mind, to such an extent that he started to blame others. This is a sure sign of a man struggling to cope. After one game he confided in yet another sympathetic reporter chum when he revealed that, in the previous Saturday’s game against Celtic, a team that is always friendly to any player from the old country, his tackle on an opposing player had been “perfectly decent, but I was shown the only card of the game whereas Scott Brown was getting fired in as much as I was; so that’s disappointing.”
“Getting fired in” is a term that Jim uses to deflect from the reality of his condition. He wasn’t getting fired in, he was, during that spell, getting booked 32 times and sent off once in 72 games.
He may well have attended meetings of Hypocrites Anonymous around that time in order to confront his addiction to contradicting himself because he publicly declare that he had a problem when he said that “It’s something I’m going to have to try to do something about in the New Year. That can be my New Year’s resolution.”…But we all know that it wasn’t to be.
He was publicly berated by his manager at the time for “shouting his mouth off at referees and their assistants” although he said at the time that he had “spoken to the gaffer about it because I’m a bit frustrated about that kind of stuff.” We all know how easily a fair tackle can become “getting fired in” and how speaking to someone can become “mouthing off” and Jim Goodwin knows the difference better than anyone, living as he does, with a cripplingly inept gob.
Denial and delusion are perhaps the strongest signs of this debilitating condition. Goodwin was quoted as saying that “All my bookings – apart from the one against St Johnstone, which was supposed to have been for dissent but was actually for an off-the-ball skirmish – have been for tackles. I don’t verbally abuse refs and call them all the names under the sun. I’m on their case if I feel we should have a foul, because I’m the captain, and I have the right to do that.” Was it really for dissent, was it really a foul, or yet another symptom of his mouth running away with him? We’ll never know but, back then, he was still capable of being honest when he said that, “If I was getting booked every week for dissent then I’d deserve to be punished but they’re for just being in the heart of midfield, right in the thick of things.”
He was only “getting fired in” and “in the thick of things” but admitted that the referees were usually right when he was booked or spoken to when he said that “With some of them I admit I need to be a bit more sensible at times. If I’ve had two fouls and the ref has warned me then maybe the next time I shouldn’t go to ground.” The expression “go to ground” is typical of a hypocrite with a runaway gob looking for a laddish expression that will allow their own view of the world to become their reality. Others might well see a delusionist.
Once again, Jim was publicly declaring that he was going to change. “It’s something I’m trying to work on and hopefully once I get this next suspension out of the way, I can make a fresh start next year. When you get a lot of bookings you can develop a reputation and that’s something I don’t want. I’d like to be known as a hard-working midfielder but not as a dirty player. I don’t want refs looking at team sheets before the game even starts and thinking, ‘I’ll need to watch out for him’ because then you’re at a disadvantage straight away.” How ironic can one man’s words be?
Jim’s own words, spoken so long ago by a young man barely into his thirties tug at all our hearts because, here we are, all these years later and we can all see that he simply can’t keep it shut. He continues to blame others and even targets young opposition players, he has a word in the ear of the referee with every intention of influencing their decisions and still talks to the echo chamber of friends and allies, many of whom also attend the same H.A. meetings. Nothing changes for ‘Gobby Goody’.
So what can you do? What can anyone do? We have teams of scientists working on a cure but science can only do so much. There are no new leafs, no fresh starts, for Jim there will always be a Scott Brown to blame. Jim Goodwin needs help, right now, help him to keep his big gob shut by sending us a donation towards buying him a mirror for his front room. We know it is a drastic measure but something has to be done and as Jim so eloquently put it “The only one who can do something about this is me.”
Let’s prove him right; send an envelope containing bugger all to The Jim Goodwin “Gobby Goody” Appeal at Longbangers.
The Gobby Goody Appeal
We have all seen the tragic images of Jim Goodwin struggling to come to terms with the team he currently manages finishing in tenth place in a league that even included Hearts. How he tries to turn every setback into a victory. He’s just that kind of guy. But his mouth has now got him into trouble once more after yet another failure by his team, when he attempted to turn reality on its head. His argument was so weak that it was utterly accepted by the experts on Sportscene, Sportsound and even The Daily Record, all of whom are recognised for their genius and their recent promotion of a ‘more competitive’ four team Scottish Premier League made up of Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Rangers again, with no relegation.
As a player ‘Goody’ was described by his own club at the time, St Mirren, as “being no angel” and admitted to a sympathetic journalist friend that he “had an image problem”, but that he was “determined to turn over a new leaf.” He was only a young boy of 31 at the time. He said it himself in his own emotionally charged words “I’m aware that I’m picking up too many yellow cards – I’ll hold up my hands to that. The majority of them are deserved but there’s one or two – or maybe three – that were a bit harsh.” Those two, or maybe three, bookings that were, in his own words “a bit harsh” had a crippling effect on his state of mind, to such an extent that he started to blame others. This is a sure sign of a man struggling to cope. After one game he confided in yet another sympathetic reporter chum when he revealed that, in the previous Saturday’s game against Celtic, a team that is always friendly to any player from the old country, his tackle on an opposing player had been “perfectly decent, but I was shown the only card of the game whereas Scott Brown was getting fired in as much as I was; so that’s disappointing.”
“Getting fired in” is a term that Jim uses to deflect from the reality of his condition. He wasn’t getting fired in, he was, during that spell, getting booked 32 times and sent off once in 72 games.
He may well have attended meetings of Hypocrites Anonymous around that time in order to confront his addiction to contradicting himself because he publicly declare that he had a problem when he said that “It’s something I’m going to have to try to do something about in the New Year. That can be my New Year’s resolution.”…But we all know that it wasn’t to be.
He was publicly berated by his manager at the time for “shouting his mouth off at referees and their assistants” although he said at the time that he had “spoken to the gaffer about it because I’m a bit frustrated about that kind of stuff.” We all know how easily a fair tackle can become “getting fired in” and how speaking to someone can become “mouthing off” and Jim Goodwin knows the difference better than anyone, living as he does, with a cripplingly inept gob.
Denial and delusion are perhaps the strongest signs of this debilitating condition. Goodwin was quoted as saying that “All my bookings – apart from the one against St Johnstone, which was supposed to have been for dissent but was actually for an off-the-ball skirmish – have been for tackles. I don’t verbally abuse refs and call them all the names under the sun. I’m on their case if I feel we should have a foul, because I’m the captain, and I have the right to do that.” Was it really for dissent, was it really a foul, or yet another symptom of his mouth running away with him? We’ll never know but, back then, he was still capable of being honest when he said that, “If I was getting booked every week for dissent then I’d deserve to be punished but they’re for just being in the heart of midfield, right in the thick of things.”
He was only “getting fired in” and “in the thick of things” but admitted that the referees were usually right when he was booked or spoken to when he said that “With some of them I admit I need to be a bit more sensible at times. If I’ve had two fouls and the ref has warned me then maybe the next time I shouldn’t go to ground.” The expression “go to ground” is typical of a hypocrite with a runaway gob looking for a laddish expression that will allow their own view of the world to become their reality. Others might well see a delusionist.
Once again, Jim was publicly declaring that he was going to change. “It’s something I’m trying to work on and hopefully once I get this next suspension out of the way, I can make a fresh start next year. When you get a lot of bookings you can develop a reputation and that’s something I don’t want. I’d like to be known as a hard-working midfielder but not as a dirty player. I don’t want refs looking at team sheets before the game even starts and thinking, ‘I’ll need to watch out for him’ because then you’re at a disadvantage straight away.” How ironic can one man’s words be?
Jim’s own words, spoken so long ago by a young man barely into his thirties tug at all our hearts because, here we are, all these years later and we can all see that he simply can’t keep it shut. He continues to blame others and even targets young opposition players, he has a word in the ear of the referee with every intention of influencing their decisions and still talks to the echo chamber of friends and allies, many of whom also attend the same H.A. meetings. Nothing changes for ‘Gobby Goody’.
So what can you do? What can anyone do? We have teams of scientists working on a cure but science can only do so much. There are no new leafs, no fresh starts, for Jim there will always be a Scott Brown to blame. Jim Goodwin needs help, right now, help him to keep his big gob shut by sending us a donation towards buying him a mirror for his front room. We know it is a drastic measure but something has to be done and as Jim so eloquently put it “The only one who can do something about this is me.”
Let’s prove him right; send an envelope containing bugger all to The Jim Goodwin “Gobby Goody” Appeal at Longbangers.