Glasgow Times show true colours with “Glasgow Derby” slip up
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You can tell it’s Old Firm derby week and where certain journalists’ allegiances lie when you start to see the odd “Glasgow Derby” pop up in the build-up to the game.
Every mainstream outlet in Scotland refers to one of the world’s biggest derbies by its correct name, however, The Glasgow Times has slipped up when covering comments made by Simon Jordan on Talksport on Monday alongside Graeme Souness and Jim White – but that’s another story.
Not once in the article was the “Old Firm” referred to, however, “Glasgow Derby” was seen a few times, something you’d expect to see in a Celtic blog never mind a mainstream media outlet, something that says all you need to know about the publication and the author.
It’s never been anything that’s bothered me, the whole “zombie”, “you let your club die” or “Glasgow Derby” patter, because we and every other organisation that’s relevant know the reality – as do most grown-ups.
At least try and come up with something original or something amusing, but by using everything other than “Old Firm” individuals that are guilty are as well holding a neon sign above their heads that says “SEVCO!!!” in big neon lights.
I’d love to be a fly on the wall when they are behind closed doors, all desperately trying not to say “Old Firm” but hating us at an irrational level for a club that is only ten years old – one day they might make their minds up as to which one it is, it certainly looks like The Glasgow Times has.
