Just read the new Tom English article on the Hearts relegation and reconstruction saga, the historical revisionism has already begun! We've seen this sort of thing before, Rangers liquidation being a prime example as that is a word rarely ever mentioned these days.
Here's the article : https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53062777
Two points I'll make on Tom English already changing the narrative:
What we had on Monday was 26 of the 42 clubs who couldn't bring themselves to back a plan that would have spared three of their own members no end of misery, a plan that every last one of them would have supported had they been the one cast into the dismal plight of enforced relegation.
Instead, they danced on the head of a pin for weeks, incapable of finding agreement on the number of clubs they wanted in each division or how many divisions or whether these divisions should be temporary or permanent. To paraphrase a line from Blackadder, in all of those discussions they made about as much progress as an asthmatic ant carrying some heavy shopping.
In Tuesday's endgame they didn't even get close to a consensus. All of them said they had sympathy for the three clubs but if they did they had a strange way of showing it. Few, if any, of them thought it was fair that the three should suffer such a blow, but only a small number acted on those beliefs. The rest just declared the problem unsolvable and pulled the ladder up
Here you can see he's creating a version of history that deflects from Hearts being the main instigators behind reconstruction, and instead is attaching blame to every other club. Whereas the vast majority of clubs have always rejected reconstruction, especially when more details have been clear to them.
Because Hearts are the biggest of the three clubs facing relegation, most of the attention has been on them. That suits the other clubs who have voted against reconstruction. They want the argument focusing on Hearts and not Partick Thistle or Stranraer because it's easier to kick Hearts than it is Thistle, it's more convenient to bang on about Ann Budge - a misogynistic tone to some of it - and to mock Hearts' financial wastefulness and their awful decision-making than it is to confront the steepling injustice that is Thistle's situation.
That's a lot harder to face up to if you're one of the clubs who has done them in. So nobody really wants to spend much time talking about Thistle because it's uncomfortable. Maybe there's a bit of guilt there. Better to divert and bombard Hearts instead. Safer ground, that.
And here he creates another narrative, one of Hearts having the spotlight unwillingly thrust upon them by unscrupulous clubs. Tom English has written numerous articles covering this, I'd say he has been the biggest commentator on it. How many of his articles have centred on Hearts? How much coverage has he given to the other clubs?
The truth here is Hearts have been the centre of attention as they have been the instigators of the story, they have been the driving force of all attempts at reconstruction and they have channeled their resources at being the focus of the story, the number of statements released to the press attests to that.
I wouldn't be surprised if this is the beginning of a false narrative being carried forwards in years to come now, again something Hearts are no strangers to, St Liedown anyone?
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16-06-2020 12:26 PM #1
Revisionism
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16-06-2020 01:01 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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16-06-2020 01:12 PM #3
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16-06-2020 01:27 PM #5
Tom English needs to resign.
If you are BBC Scotland’s chief sports writer, it is incumbent on you to acknowledge and reflect on different opinions. Not pick a side and relentlessly argue that side.
As others have pointed out, he’s indulging in a fair bit of revisionism in his piece, so not even reporting the facts. The unevidenced accusation of misogyny is a disgrace. What kind of journalist is he?
Budge accepted a leadership role in the reconstruction task force. It failed.
She eventually put together her own proposal - the other clubs showed great patience in giving her extra time to do this - and it was an incoherent, unfinished mess. The clubs couldn’t even vote on it.
Then the Rangers put forward a plan, and the SPFL took that and tried to find a way for enough clubs to vote through change based on a 14 team top league. It failed.
Meanwhile, Budge threw insults, threats and attempted bribes from the touchline.
Do you think the problem might be you, Ann Budge?
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What are they going to do - run up lots of debt against those companies then go into admin?
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16-06-2020 01:29 PM #7
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16-06-2020 01:30 PM #8
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From what I can see they want to destroy the whole of Scottish football and boycott Sky/BBC/EEN and all sponsors of every club who voted for their demise as well as boycotting the Scottish cup and ruining the tournament.
They can use the past businesses as references As to how serious they are at doing so.
They’re the sideshow bob of Scottish football.
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He's just a sad ****er that's not dealt well with lockdown. He and Budge need medical help.
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16-06-2020 03:03 PM #12
We need a definitive list of things Hearts have destroyed. I'll start:
The German Empire
Themselves
Lithuanian pension fund
Us, as a club, apparently
Anything else?
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FC Partizan Minsk
Did Romanov's basketball team go down with the sub as well? Not sure if they survived or not.
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I've tried to give Tom E the benefit of the doubt over the last few weeks but his pre-Budge agenda is getting cringeworthy now.
The BBC can say goodbye to my license fee. Done with funding such nonsense.
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16-06-2020 03:27 PM #17
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I see English manages to get a dig at Donald Findlay in there too. Presumably still fuming at how the Cowden chairman outwitted him with ease yesterday.
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16-06-2020 03:58 PM #19
I can understand why they feel aggrieved, as well as Partick Thistle and Stranrar. I even get what Tom English is on about. In the circumstances it is all very unfair, however in the present circumstances it is the least unfair outcome and that is what they are not getting. They are happy to inconvience the vast majority of clubs and create a set up which would have to be changed in a few years as the 14 team top tier was stupid. Tom English wears specs and I am guessing it is for short sightedness.
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16-06-2020 04:22 PM #20
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Has anyone suggested the BBC Fact Check team have a look at his article?
Space to let
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Where does it say everyone needed to agree? The only thing there has been consensus on as far as I have read is the "unanimous" voting by all of the clubs to end the season.
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16-06-2020 04:54 PM #22
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The man is an absolute arrogant sod.
If the votes has went the other way he'd still have had something to say.
Wish he'd go back to his (not very decent) rugby journalism instead of picking the pubes out of our game.
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16-06-2020 04:59 PM #23
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Sorry, BBC but he's clearly not impartial if he's siding with a story that's now about to become a civil matter. A matter that he knows little about and certainly has not one iota what any outcome might be.
If there is one thing that is very, very annoying, it's a biased journalist.
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16-06-2020 05:17 PM #24
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The conduct of Tom English has been bizarre throughout this whole saga. It goes well beyond incompetence. He has been completely biased, and extremely venomous to anyone who won't disadvantage their own club to give Hearts a promotion they haven't earned and don't deserve.
The way he's carried on you would think he has a large financial investment in Hearts. For whatever reason, it's clear that his relationship with Ann Budge has become far too cosy for him to be even remotely impartial.
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THREE MORE POINTS over the 30 games played would have been all it would have taken to avoid the drop. But they failed, completely and consistently to save themselves when they had multiple opportunities to do so.
But no its all the fault of the nasty SPFL and all the other nasty selfish clubs now and lackies like English are re-writing history to promote Saint Dr Mrs Budge and finger point at everyone else.
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His articles should come with an opinion subheading. Mind you anyone who believes the BBC is unbiased nowadays.....
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The noses of anyone who attempts to run up the staircase to nowhere !
The credibility of the phrases ‘glass curtain’ and ‘our own training facility’
Tom English’s career as a serious journalist
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