I can remember the day when I bought my first Glasgow Herald. I had watched my Grandfather struggle to fold this behemoth of a broadsheet, but he always extolled the wisdom contained therein. The day I bought my first edition it made me feel like a wise and learned young man.
The Herald was then, and always has been a bastion of well written articulate articles and the sports section was no different, until now.
When Graham Speirs decided to head off to pastures new, sportswriters were wondering who would take over the suede jacket with the patches? Which Sportswriter in the land would be able to step into his Brogues?
Upstepped young Darryl Broadfoot, a more contemptible self-publicising wee nyaff the world had never seen. He quickly added his bitter touch to all things football and a large cloud fell over the world.
A chink of light escaped through those clouds this morning though. As I opened my edition it was with great delight that Darryl displayed that he is far, far too stupid to be the Chief Sportswriter of the Beano, never mind Scotland’s best Newspaper! In a story regarding Stephen McManus, Broadfoot writes:-
McManus first held serious aspirations of becoming a Celtic player around the same time the peroxide poacher, Frank McAvennie, completed a league and cup double during the club's centenary year. A teenage McManus watched the drama unfold between Celtic and Dundee United, wide-eyed and within touching distance of his television
A Teenage McManus? If McManus were a Teenager in 1988 that would make him at least 30!
Not content with that flailing error, Darryl continues,
Now, almost a decade later, he will play a prominent role in the pursuit of modern history.
Almost a decade later? Shurely shome mishtake!
Darryl’s watch obviously stopped back in 1998! Probably around the same time he threw it against the wall when Brattback scored the second goal against St Johnstone!
If he doesn’t have the dignity to resign after this schoolboy error, both him and his editor should be sacked forthwith.
Yours in Celtic
Clydebuilt