Brewster pays price for poor run
If football was a card school, supporters would fail miserably at patience.
And they might not win too many hands of happy families.
The fans of Inverness Caledonian Thistle won their fight to get Craig Brewster binned hands down.
Lynch mobs for managers are a regular sight in the Scottish game.
Already this season Mark McGhee and Jimmy Calderwood have been casting nervous looks over their shoulders.
It's just that I thought it had all gone quiet and that the new found stiff upper lip may have saved the day for the troubled Inverness boss.
Although seven straight league defeats is the quicksand of security.
The rise and rise of Motherwell and Aberdeen after a start to the season in which they seemed to be running on syrup has taken a baseball bat to the baying mobs who wanted them strung up.
As it happens they are not alone.
Maybe only Billy Reid at Hamilton, Csaba Laszlo at Hearts and Dundee United's Craig Levein have been perfect little angels in the eyes of their fans.
I have heard abuse fired at twice-manager-of-the-month Gus MacPherson, back-to-back-to-back championships winner Gordon Strachan and of course Walter Smith who is not, apparently, delivering what arrogant Rangers fans think they deserve.
Mind you, if ever there was a bad week for the Rangers Trust to launch their campaign it had to be the one in which their team took six league points and closed the gap 'twixt them and Celtic to two points and progressed to the next round of the Scottish Cup.
I suspect they have spectacularly misjudged the mood of the huge majority of the Ibrox support. And, for that matter, their own importance.
But in any case the history of the game in this country is peppered with tales of boards of directors grovelling to the mob mentality and sacrificing coaches scandalously early in their careers.
Aberdeen, in particular, guillotined Willie Miller and Alex Smith before their time and Dundee United were trigger happy on a number of occasions, but specifically with Gordon Chisholm.
Consequently I welcomed the new sense of calm and serenity about the place.
Of course it has not all come about for the purest of reasons. Out of the darkness of the dire financial climate has come this enforced sanity, because they can't afford the pay-off for managers.
Sack the gaffer or keep him. It's Hobson's choice my friend.
Football supporters come complete with short fuses, never better illustrated than those who follow Motherwell and who bowed at the feet of Mark McGhee who dragged the club kicking and screaming to a European place last season.
But the leaves were hardly off the trees before you could hear the mumping of discontent from Lanarkshire.
The manager in turn asked if he was not due some loyalty given that he had produced that commodity when Hearts came calling for his services.
I suspect it was a question of the rhetorical variety.
And now his team have produced a re-awakening which has rumbled the entire SPL.
In a season of twists and turns Motherwell's thundering dismantling of Dundee United may actually have put them on the straight and narrow.
It has been a curious old term.
We fell flat on our red faces in Europe, but mortified as we are with embarrassment when we cross the Channel we have begun to enjoy ourselves in our own backyard.
There is a championship race worthy of the name again and in the push for Europe there is a crowded scene.
Eleven out of 12 SPL teams survive in the Homecoming Scottish Cup which means that somewhere down the line there will be some mighty clashes.
And of course two Co-operative Insurance Cup semi-finals are looming in which Falkirk and the aforementioned United will be desperate to eliminate the prospect of an Old Firm final.
That is mouth-watering, not matter how it slices.
But in fairness, Brewster has been a dead man walking for weeks.
I took no pleasure in tipping the Highland club as most likely for the drop before a ball was kicked and at this distance from the season's end they still look the most probable to fulfil my doom filled forecast.
I'm not quite sure of the root cause of this unusual glow of well being about our game.
Maybe it is the first shoots of snowdrops and daffodils that I spotted in my garden, or the generous measures of Islay Malt dispensed in my direction over the festive season.
Maybe I am just an all round good guy after all, or maybe it's the job security in which our managers now bathe.
Unless you are poor Craig Brewster of course.
"Tell them who you are and what you are about," they said. To be honest, there are days when I struggle to remember myself. Forty years toiling at the coalface of football journalism does that to you. But I have reason to believe that I have reached the heady heights of the title of Football Correspondent of BBC Scotland which gives me a renown, in Scottish terms, of somewhere between Alex Salmond and the deep fried Mars Bar.
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What was the point in this blog? you started out as if you were going to defend Brewster then agreed with the sacking, hard not to given thier form. Though Good luck any1 trying to get better results for caley.
Then you had a pop at most of the fans in the SPL, focusing on the don's and Well. Also in terms of big twist it may have escaped your notice but there was a wee game in Aberdeen which was had a massive impact on both the title and 3rd place. Surely this was the real story not that a manger with relgation form got the sack?
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Still nothing from Chick about the Rangers financial crisis. What a surprise, he obviously doesn't want to upset his friend Sir Moonbeam.
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"...somewhere down the line their will be some might comings together."
What?
You're falling back to your old habits of trying too hard Chick. You'll never be a poet; just stick to the basics!
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Chick - I always read your blog and lots of people seem to have a bit of a pop at you... you could have shut everyone up with a blog about the Rangers "crisis".. (that interestingly i still don't know much about (living in England))... why didn't you write something? are the comments on here correct in that a) you never read these comments and don't care what people think and/or b) you are in some way biased and will not ever do anything to criticise Rangers?
just a thought - do your next blog on the Rangers financial crisis and better still - reply to some comments on this blog!
good luck bud!
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Surely it had nothing to do with Rangers sucess that they are within two points, and entirely due to Celtics failure to get a result at Pittodrie..(or to be honest Aberdeens magnificent victory)
And do Aberdeen fans not deserve to be upset whe team was bottom of the league after 10 games. We dont have a crystal balls we have to react to what is in front of us so we can pressure the team to play better(which is what happened).
Pressure on managers from fans is not nessecarily a bad thing, its the manager(and teams) reaction which counts. And in the case of Brewster it clearly wasnt good enough.
Oh and Rangers fans dont deserve success that has to be earned, however they do deserve honesty from the board and i dont think they are getting that(until 19 days ago when the world was informed of the January Blue Cross Sale).
But you wouldn't dare say that about your mate would you Chico!
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Chics tunnel vision is still evident.
Come on Chic, even people who admit to supporting Rangers aren't afraid to air their views in public.
You were quick enough to put the boot into Hearts about their finances........
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Alex Smith?
Willie Miller?
Gordon Chisholm?
Why not use a more recent example of a gaffer getting his jotters as a result of pressure from the fans?
Perhaps you could have mentioned Paul le Guen.
More tripe from the Chico.
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Not only the usual tired cliches but now it seems Chick has trouble with grammar...
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Ah...Chick. Yes, football fans are fickle and yes, they are impatient...but the vast majority also want the best for their club. As far as Brewster is concerned - as is any manager - he was there to help the club move forward. Did he deliver? Well, I think the 'lynch mobs' called this one correctly.
It really isn't unusual in our game (or any sport) that when a team does well - is successful in achieving its' ambitions - that the expectation rises...and why not? We all want a bit of success and glory, do we not? Progress is there to be built upon. Otherwise - we just wouldn't go and fork out £20 or more a pop to go and watch the game in the first place. Although some supporters are a bit quick on the trigger-finger, most of us desperately want what's best for the club - even if sometimes we might be misguided. But who is to tell us whether we are right or wrong in our opinion? Opinions from fans count.
This is football. This is the way it works nowadays, and likely always will work.
You're a St. Mirren fan, right? If the Saints had had the results and the ABYSMAL form that Caley have had this season would you possibly admit to being a little worried - what, with a new stadium and all? The need for progress, my friend, is not cheapened by a cry for help. Try being a Caley supporter for a day or two...
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Chic,
Seems last week your criticised for not writing about contemporary issues, and now you are asked to do just that.
How many people have written their comment prior to reading the blog, fair do's it is not the best.
The shame about your league supporters is that they judge a person on what team they support (or dare I say it religion) above and beyond anything else.
I think that if a club (board) bravely decide to take a gamble with a young manger, then they should at least stick by them, help them along and give them every chance to succeed. Otherwise they should be manly enough to apologise to the fans for their part in the clubs failings by taking a gamble that did not pay off, instead of blaming the inexperienced manager.
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For those of you who live in England and don't know about Chick, he is infamous for pretending to be a St Mirren fan when he is really a huge Rangers fan. Most people up here think he is a numpty.
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oh chick you are such a silly little man, im a celtic fan and cant believe you havent mentioned the big win for aberdeen? and still no talk of ibrox, i think its time your superiors looked at your job!!! you deserve the sack more than brewster, were all calling for your head so when are you going to do the decent thing and leave?
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Two pretty glaring typos contained within another spectacularly uninformative, noncohesive and sloppy blog:
"There is a championship race worth the description on again and in the push for Europe there is a crowd scene."
Surely crowdED, instead of crowd.
And:
"That is mouth-watering, not matter how it slices."
NO matter how it slices?
*sigh*
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typical chic young. For years i have defended you against celtic fans who i thought were just bitter and twisted. I now have to agree with them, you most definitely are biased towards the hierarchy at rangers.
How else can you explain your determination not to talk about the financial mismanagement of the club!
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The usual tiresome Celtic fans stamping their little feet because folk don't write about what they want. Why don't they just stick to their Celtic fanzines? Then they might hear what they want.
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Gave up after a paragraph. Did he bring up Alex Smith again? He's like a broken record. I don't think Chic has ever come out and agreed with a sacking. Why is he getting paid for this drivel? He should be forced to read it back but I doubt he bothers.
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Chic I hope you read this. I think this blog is awful. Cant believe I read it as this is the third time I have done so. Please stop I never read one comment liking it.
Please someone stop his gutter journalism please.
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Shocking stuff from Chick again. Why oh why does he keep writing blogs about diddy teams like Caley, Hearts, St Mirren etc. when surely he must know that all real glory hunters, er, I mean, football fans in Scotland just want to read about how the gruesome twosome are doing on or off the field!!.....
PS Anyone know how many goals the dandys got yesterday? All the Sellick fans will surely get their wish next week and see a Gers blog next week - if we can put four past the Tic, how many will we give the Gers....;-)
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Hey Chico, never mind about the folk who've got naff all better to do than slag you off for writing about whatever you feel like writing about on a weekly basis, they're becoming more boring than a drilling rig. It's a blog, nothing more, and the problems at Ibrox were discussed at length on the sportsound programmes so we all now what the issues are. As for your comments about CT, I'm a big fan of Brewster, what a player he was and probably still is - maybe he'll sign for Falkirk given the average age of Yogie's recent acquisitions. I am very disappointed for him and the club though, I think he'd have made a good stab at improving the performances in the remainder of the season, especially if he'd put his boots back on! Hope the grammar police that comment on the blog all the time okay this ...
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How can a man who's full time job is following Rangers and Celtic week in, week out be allowed to pontificate on Inverness Caledonian Thistles supporters? How many times have you seen Caley play Chic? Yep, I thought so, when they were playing your beloved Old Firm.
I was at every single Aberdeen game under Willie Miller and Alec Smith. Both deserved to be sacked. Smith is and was a dreadful manager. Sacked by St. Mirren, Aberdeen, Clyde, Raith Rovers, Dundee Utd. and Ross County. Do you see a pattern? The man was dreadful. Why don't you stick to writing about what you know about. How about 500 words on how many times Walter Smith goes to the toilet each day, for the next blog.
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The grammar police say - Sportsound should have a capital 'S'.
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@ 13
Dons fans spring to defence of Chick Young shocker ... (well, his prose at least)
"... in the push for Europe there is a crowd scene."
>Surely crowdED, instead of crowd.
"crowd scene" is a decent metaphor as it stands - "crowded scene" would be a more literal description of the push for Europe
"That is mouth-watering, not matter how it slices."
>NO matter how it slices?
Again, this could simply be poetic license. Or indeed a flat-out mistake. But given Chick's rather eccentric creativity with language, there's a certain Shakespearian flourish to the use of "not" (imagine it enunciated by Sir Ian McKellen)...
Critics might have Chick bang to rights as a Phil Space of the sports blog scene, but attempting to contain his use of language is a losing battle...
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# 16 Blue Heaven: who are the tiresome Celtic fans you're talking about?
Only one person before your post is definitely a Celtic fan and he was saying well done to Aberdeen for beating Celtic and maybe the Dons should get some recognition from Chick.
I suspect Dennistoun Don and Westhill Red are both Aberdeen fans (in fact, I'm wondering if Westhill Red is my big cousin). Is it okay for Aberdeen to slag off Chick but not for Celtic?
And you might want to have another look at Superior Black and Blue's comments.
Or are you just seeing what you want to justify your moral indignation?
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Dear moderators,
Re: my comment (#24): I don't actually want to know who #11 Murray is: I was just making a hilarious joke about Chick Young and David Murray's special relationship.
Sorry.
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'Sack the gaffer or keep him. It's Hobson's choice my friend'. Erm, no it isn’t, my friend. 'Hobson's Choice' is a free choice in which only one option is offered. If you will persist in padding your gormless ramblings with ridiculous clichés, at least have the sense to think what they actually mean before randomly inserting.
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Not sure if my comment #24 is going to appear, so here goes again with my second hilarious observation from it (apologies if it ends up on here twice):
Now we know why Chick knows so little about Scottish football. If he's "seeing snowdrops and daffodils" in his garden in January, he must live in Tenerife or somewhere.
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Chick's blog isn't the greatest, granted. It is rarely is of the standard of the other blogs.
But I have to say most of the comments here make me cringe even more. It is embarrassing watching idiots who attempt to post pseudo-intellectual comments and display blatant hypocrisy-cum-idiocy. The paranoia and contradictions posted by some of the numpties here fold in on themselves.
For instance, Chick is criticised by a Sellick fan for NOT mentioning Aberdeen's victory?? Mmm - whereas you can obviously only imagine the comments HAD he mentioned it.
And then Chick is also criticised for focusing on ICT, saying he should not be allowed to comment on their affairs because he doesn't follow them week-in-week-out? So is it only Caley fans who can comment on Caley's issues? And did you not see the post the other week on St Mirren/Love Street? The Buddies aren't Old Firm either.
And he is even criticised for not spelling Sportsound with the appropriate capital letter?! We’ll sidestep the issue of whether an error in punctuation equates directly to a grammatical error and rather simply mock the pedant, shall we?
Bottom line, if Chicks blogs are so awful, then why do the same people, the kind who would probably struggle to find their backside in the bath, bother reading them time and again? Just to nit-pick with pre-empted criticisms bred from their own bitterness or paranoia?
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I think fans are entitled to voice opinions considering the price it costs to go to the games and the money spent on merchandise.
After all if it wasn't for the fans where would the clubs be?
The true fans of all clubs spend a fortune getting to the games every week, we don't all get paid to stand on the touchline and talk drivel like some folk chic, hint hint.
And your quick to jump on and defend Murray and smith as usual, fans are angry because the club is trying to offload one of our top players for penny's, show me another club in the world who's fans would be happy with that situation.
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Next week : the state of the ER pitch
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#29 If you actually read the post it wasn't Chick Young who spelt Sportsound with a small 's'. But, hey, why let facts get in the way...
Young's blog contained several grammatical errors - and as a professional journalist with the BBC that's surely unacceptable.
Or do standards not apply at the BBC any more?
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Just love the way wee Chic gets the backs up of the miscellany of demented, small-minded "football fans" out there.
For the record, I think Chic and Jim Traynor (another target of the keyboard-experts) are both superlative sports writers.
Okay, so i might not agree with everything they say or write, but I'd rather listen to and read their stuff, than have to tolerate the hate-filled bile that some numpties post on the 606 boards for example.
Keep up the good work Chico - looking fwd to your next blog, son.
PS: and for the trumpet who picks a guy up on his typos: GET A LIFE!
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#26 I'm an Aberdeen fan, I hope you weren't suggesting I was a Rangers fan.
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This article really sums up Scottish football and the media - just one big old pals act. It's all about backside kissing. And Chico was long ago inaugurated as the president of Scottish football's media brown-noses.
So Caley Thistle fans have no right to complain about thier impending relegation. So Rangers fans have no right to moan about finishing second in a 2-horse championship race, for potentially the 4th year in a row. So celtic fans have no right to complain about their team getting humiliated in Europe. So Motherwell fans and Aberdeen fans should have just put up with the prospect of a relegation dogfight a few weeks ago, after a successful season last year. Just as long as none of Chick's equally well-paid pals get their feelings hurt.
What these arrogant "journalists" fail to grasp is that it is us fans who pay the players, managers and even chairmen's wages at the clubs we love. These journalists fail to grasp this reality, because they have never had to pay to get in to a football match, possibly in their lives. The clubs pay their fees, feed them, pay their travel costs to away matches, give them a free bar, and generally wipe their backsides for them every week. The likes of Chick even get paid a form of taxpayers money for doing this. Then they slag off supporters from behind their laptops, and ironically accuse the rest of us who complain of being 'keyboard hardmen!!'
The fans of all Scottish clubs really do deserve better, better value for money (SPL is more expensive than the Spanish, German, Italian or French leagues) and license fee payers deserve better than these appalling third rate bandwagon-jumping 'journalists' who simply wouldn't cut the mustard down south!
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Every time a manager is given the sack Chick wheels out the usual predictable tosh about not giving manager's time. He then uses the Aelx Smith sacking by Aberdeen as his prime piece of supporting evidence. I can honestly say in the the no. of years I have been forced to listen to his high-pitched nonsense he has never backed a club for sacking a manager. Anyone with a vague understanding of football has to be able to see that Brewster had to go. ICT may well still go down but it looked a certainty under Brewster. You only need to see the malcontent reported in today's papers to see the scale of the problems. Maybe if the likes of Chick bothered getting off their backsides and investigated things a bit further before blogging awaythey would be a bit more informed.
It's nice to see though I am not alone in thinking that Chick should be put out to pasture. Frankly he adds nothing of interest to Scottish football and hasn't done so for years and does so with embarassing pun-filled articles. The ode to Love St. was quite frankly cringe-enducing. If St. Mirren fans can get articles aimed at them then we should have a whole section on the main sports page aimed at ferret bashing.
Do us all a favour BBC and please, please get rid of him.
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I thinks the sniping for grammar and typos is petty at best.
The fact is that the Chief football correspondent for BBC Scotland spews tripe from his fingertips with the lack of accuarcy that makes Sebo look like Kris Boyd.
Any paying customer can say (within the realms of law and decency) whatever they like about their team and manager. How dare he infer that me (an Aberdeen fan) Im wrong to voice my opinion of displeasure, when he gets paid (by us) to have any opinion he sees fit. It makes me so mad!!
This is not a 'who does Chick love more' complaint, this has nothing to do with whether you are Celtic, Rangers or like me aberdeen or any other club for that matter. It comes down to the fact that while Chick is fine on the wireless, he is a terrible written journalist and that is hard to dispute.
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Chick, I must confess that I have been critical of your blogs over the last year but in the last month or so you really have found some form. Even more surprising was the upbeat nature of the article above.
Scottish football may not have the unfathomable millions of the English premier league or the world famous names of the Italian or Spanish leagues but it is our league, our history and our future. Maybe I too am still under the influence of the peat heavy malts of Islay but for me it’s the best wee diddy league in the world!
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A number of clubs have had bad runs this season... Dundee United got off to a bad start but after getting their first win of the league season went on a consistent run and climbed the league. St Mirren got no points in November. Motherwell had a poor December... Aberdeen had a bad run of results in October I think. What sets Caley apart from the other teams is not really the length of the bad run and that fact that at this point in time the run hasn't been halted and they find themselves beginning to get adrift of everyone except Falkirk and when you look at their opponents for their next 6 league games you don't see many obvious chances for a Caley team on a bad run and not scoring goals at one end and giving goals away at the other to take many points off Hearts followed by Celtic followed by Dundee United, Hibs, Motherwell then Rangers. When most of the other teams who have had bad runs this season were in the doledrums generally speaking they were on a run of games against teams in the top half of the league and often were losing by one or two goals. Caley's run of 7 straight league losses comes against the smaller teams in the league and then now face 6 league games against most of the bigger teams in the top half of the league.
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Arrogant Rangers fans Chic!!! Do you call them this at the various club functions you attend or are you happy to play the Watson-esque diddy that appears on TV?
Perhaps you can enlighten us on being called to heel by SDM last week after your administration scoop.
Is Gordon Durie signing in this window?
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Jeez you get some stick on here don't you Chick?
Anyway, I think Aberdeen show that sometimes the right manager just needs time & Brewster shows that sometimes you know it's not the right manager. I guess the trick is knowng the difference.
Good point about the financial situation staying people's hands.
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Im getting fed up with these tired, regurgated cliches chick. i.e "its hobsons choice my friend" what utter nonsense!
Chick maybe next week youll talk about the real story....... instead of denying that big eared elephant in the roomexists
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financial mismanagement ? what they overspent on c**p players and are now trying to recoup some of the dosh by flogging probably their only decent player? why should chick be talking about this, nobody outside govan cares. Good blog but you should have mentioned the dandy dons thumping celtic, bring on the gers for some of the same and we will give them something to take their minds of the "financial mismanagement"
we deserve better ha ha ha ha ha
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Wow.
There are some really angry people out there.
Why not take wee Chics views/blogs as they are intended and not get wound up.
Wee Chico is part of the Scottish Footballing Furniture, without him it just wouldnt be the same listening to Radio scotland or watching the early round of the Scottish Cup, i can only assume the RSPCA's 'kicked dugs' helpline would be in meltdown without him.
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Who would be a football fan these days?
Expected to turn up faithfully match after match, year after year, making sacrifices, shelling out thousands on tickets, merchandise, travel costs, to get to a game after sitting in traffic in atrocious conditions etc. And for what?
To sit in a freezing cold stadium watching what is, nine times out of ten, a drab and dour match. So the fans have a moan. What do they get in return for their protestations?
Sarcastic put downs from overpaid prima donna managers and players who have never paid a farthing to watch a match and have only taken from the game, and never done a proper days work in their shallow and superficial lives. "Fans don't know the game", they argue. "They are faceless and nameless", "they drink cheap Kestral Lager and have devil dugs". They say these things of course either before or after the words "the fans pay their money and have the right to protest. Too right we do!!
If it wasn't for Celts for Change or Save the Jags we wouldn't have a Celtic or Partick Thistle. Many fans groups have helped their clubs meet wage bills or buy a player.
So if you don't like criticism Walter, Gordon, Craig, Willie Miller et al, find another career away from football.
Keep up with the sarcastic, rude, and sometimes rather demeaning criticism of the people who pay your wages and maybe we, the supporters, will find something else to spend our money on. Usually earned in some thankless, boring, and uninspiring office, factory, or shop.
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#34 Murray. Rest assured, I wasn't accusing you of being a Rangers fan. I just thought it would be funny if David Murray was having a go at Chick along with the rest of us.
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'Twixt, Chick?
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43. At 07:56am on 21 Jan 2009, howdyneeber wrote:
financial mismanagement ? what they overspent on c**p players and are now trying to recoup some of the dosh by flogging probably their only decent player? why should chick be talking about this, nobody outside govan cares. Good blog but you should have mentioned the dandy dons thumping celtic, bring on the gers for some of the same and we will give them something to take their minds of the "financial mismanagement"
we deserve better ha ha ha ha ha
For someone who doesn't care you seem to have a lot to say on the matter. I think you should be more concerned with your own team signing dutch amateur players that only jimmy calderwood rates.
Muppet.
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I can't believe that Murray , presumably an intelligent adult , has more faith in a caricature created by Jonathon Watson than he does in the real world.
Chick Young IS a St Mirren fan !
Find out more about the man before you embarass yourself again.
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what are you on about motherwell fans were not calling for the managers head . He was fine it was the players that were not performing
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This guy never says anything worthwhile and his opinion isn't worth a candle amongst the vast majority of football fans in Scotland.
Is picking up spelling mistakes trivia? No, not when you are supposed to be a professional journalist. It's becoming a joke really; I assume the BBC allows him to post direct to the web without a member of staff checking his copy?
And for those who say he is good on radio then can I just say "No, he's rubbish." As is that eejit Traynor. The Radio 5 guys are so much better, even Alan Green. The only reason people listen to Chick and Traynor is that they are covering Scottish football (well, the OF). Your Call is probably the worst phone-in programme in the history of phone-in programmes. It's an utter embarrassment and thank god hardly anyone outside Scotland can hear it.
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36. At 5:38pm on 20 Jan 2009, Flip_Hamburglar wrote:
Every time a manager is given the sack Chick wheels out the usual predictable tosh about not giving manager's time. He then uses the Aelx Smith sacking by Aberdeen as his prime piece of supporting evidence. I can honestly say in the the no. of years I have been forced to listen to his high-pitched nonsense he has never backed a club for sacking a manager.
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I thought Chic was at Murrays door with Captain Coathanger and Ferret features Boyd a few years ago, absolutely beelin' and calling for the head of Paul le Guen......
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Funny how the mind plays tricks.
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MCTEAGLETAMB1 wrote:
Shocking stuff from Chick again. Why oh why does he keep writing blogs about diddy teams like Caley, Hearts, St Mirren etc. when surely he must know that all real glory hunters, er, I mean, football fans in Scotland just want to read about how the gruesome twosome are doing on or off the field!!.....
Hearts a diddy team....aye right mate.
Keep taking the pills.
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