capt_oats

April 13, 2016

Said this myself to someone yesterday.

It's probably because they'd get instantly thrown off the gravy train but you wonder why someone didn't - taking Smith as an example - ask him what clubs he thought had been relegated as a result of Rangers not being around. Or ask Souness what kind of ways he thought the game had suffered. Q&As here seem to be very much "tee up a question, hope for a controversial answer" without much to-n-fro.

I think that's pretty much it.

Have these not been a series of Q&As/interviews set up by the sponsors rather than direct interviews? I'd guess that there would have been some sort of direction with a view to soft-soaping the whole thing. I'd imagine that any journo who decided to challenge them would get their baws toed by the sponsors and ultimately their editor for deviating from the apparent party line which seems (somewhat preposterously) to be that the OF is the "biggest game in world football".

April 13, 2016

I enjoy listening to Souness covering the English games but the comments from both him and Smith were laughable.

I thought it was interesting that both Richard Gordon and Tom English pretty much undercut everything they said when they were discussing the interviews with Gordon pointing out that all the clubs who have won trophies wouldn't agree and English correctly pointing out that it was simply the "Rangers narrative" now. Both sounded utterly weary of the whole thing. Indeed English went on to say that in his opinion the ex-OF players they're wheeling out have absolutely no idea what's going on in Scottish football (again, it's hard to argue with that).