They did have the luxury of reporting on better quality players in Scotland in those days. I used to like Bob Crampsey who managed to talk intelligently and interestingly about football - no hype required.
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Most clubs aren’t interested in the nonsense by hertz and Partick. The only ones bothered are those it affects. It fills the back pages but as you say how many times can you say the same thing over and over. Superscoreboard constantly says its time to move on. Most fans in Scotland says its time to move on but still we hear the tiresome bores from gorgie.Once the season kicks off the SPFL fans wont give a hoot about hertz.
God I genuinely genuinely miss the likes of Bob Crampsey. The man was a living academic passionate encyclopaedia of the beautiful game. Just saying his name is a reminder of how the world of Scottish football ‘journalism’ is now full of squealing ill informed attention seekers contriving fake debates.
Spot on. You have to wonder why he wouldn't ask such questions. He's been doing the job for many years, but over the last few months the programme has been all about the injustice (as portrayed by budge, and Partick) rather than dealving into the reasons the clubs took the decisions they did. All through this debacle, the paying listener has been more informed about the situation than some of the pundits.
The record got stuck in a groove for the last couple of months, let's hope it's sorted soon, and they can get back to telling us how well the old firm are doing.
BBC have actually put up a positive Hibs related interview with Kevin Nisbet. Shame it's only 40 seconds long as looks to be a cracking interview.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53392864
Mrs Pope and myself were oot in the car on Saturday and I chanced upon Off The Ball and the ill- informed (their words) pair were spraffing comically about Hibs recent signings and restructuring. Both, when challenged, loudly proclaimed that they were only reporting what they ‘read in the papers’ and Hibbies (amongst others) were a wee bit too defensive of their club. Puppets the two of them. Cowan has an excuse as he is a tool but Cosgrove calls himself a journalist. I switched off.
There was a strong aroma of sour grapes from Cosgrove. He said that St Johnstone tried to keep Drey Wright and offered him an enhanced contract but he chose to move to Hibs. The fantasy 70 redundancies allowed him to question what he termed the morality of the situation. I suppose I’d feel bitter in his situation.
I can't listen to Off The Ball for long! I keep thinking: "Has it come to this?" If I want to hear a bunch of bears bantering in a pub, I'll go to the pub. The annoying thing is Cosgrove dumbs himself down, or "doon" as he would put it, for the show.
But the days of Crampsey, Montford etc came before alternative comedy, intrusive tabloid journalism and the general trend of iconoclasm.
By all accounts, Baxter and Law's behaviour off the park would have been emblazoned on our front pages today. Perhaps they got an easy time because they were genius players, unlike the B-listers we have to watch now.
Today’s sportsound podcast was excellent. Lachlan Cameron and Donald Findlay popped Tom English right in his place. English continued to defend his views which is fair but for the first time sportsound had guests not aboard the partick and hearts bandwagon.
This is really beginning to pee me off. That is utter lazinesss from Cosgrove. He of all people should read the story and not the headline. If you read the actual story of hibs signings all three are on wage deferrals and Nisbet has explained he is getting less than he would have got in January. I’m fed up of negative stories about our club which have no basis in fact but are part of an anti hibs narrative. Apparently hertz were interested in wright and Nisbet but no mention of their pay cuts. It’s total hypocrisy and so frustrating that papers can’t be trusted to tell the whole story.
For those who don’t know her dad is a huge Tory and has raised millions for them. Make up your own mind about her but I think that gives you a clue. I actually like her but her bias comes out every now and then. Beth rigby the best as far as I can see.Seems even handed and doesn’t sugar coat things. Imho of course.