Posted on April 26, 2012 by williampoole
The following article was published on the 26th April when The Telegraph ridiculed the alleged threat to C4s Alex Thompson.
Thompson, in a fit of anger, made some calls, and The Telegraph pulled it and apologised.
Yesterday, The Telegraph published an update on the “case”, as a footnote to one of Roddy Forsythe’s hatchet jobs on Rangers.
It seems that Forsyth hasn’t liked the cut of the arrogant Thompson’s jib.
So, with it now confirmed there is no threat, despite an almost desperate wish from Thompson to get one with his continual baiting of the Rangers support, it is now time for me to republish my blog post.
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When I was growing up, my mother and father used to regale me with the legends of the Glasgow audience, and how the stars of yesteryear used to roll in to Glasgow with an ego the size of The Apollo, and leave broken by the harsh Glasgow audience.
In a perverse way, Glaswegians have always been proud of this ability to act as judge and jury on any act.
As I got older I thought the Glasgow audience had mellowed, and allowed several talentless cretins to go about their business in public, without so much of a heckle.
Well those days are over my friends, and the Glasgow audience has found it’s modern day ego to crash, in the shape of narcissist Channel 4 news reporter Alex Thomson.
I wrote previously about Thomson being a useful idiot for others manipulating him, and wrote that his credibility was sliding
As I wrote about the “assault” claims not covered by the fake tweet also being questionable, I fully expected that he would raise a concern with the Police, and the enquiry would die a death as is does with normal people who report a suspected crime with little detail.
What I didn’t count on would be the media wanting a follow up, in order that they could write some story about a big bad Rangers fan threatening a defenceless reporter.
When they followed it up, they were told, presumably what Thomson was told, that it was laughable.
The Telegraph reported:
Meanwhile Strathclyde Police have dropped an investigation into a complaint by the chief correspondent of Channel 4 news, Alex Thomson, that he had been threatened physically by other journalists after arriving in Glasgow to cover the story. In a blog entry that was widely repeated in newspapers and such media sites as UK Press Gazette, Thomson wrote: “What I didn’t expect were the insults (and in at least one case, a direct physical threat) not from fans but from Scottish journalists. Sarajevo, Mogadishu, Kabul, Islamabad, Tripoli, Baghdad… I could bore you with more – in none of these places have I ever got this interesting reaction from local journalists. Only in Glasgow.”
However, Strathclyde Police found no evidence to support Thomson’s complaint. “Frankly, it was laughable,” a source told Telegraph Sport.
So, Thomson has built a career on credibility by reporting on the front line from all these war torn cities, then had it smashed in Glasgow, after his evidence was rendered “laughable”
I’m told that he has spent the last week baiting Rangers fans on Twitter, in what appears to be a calculated attempt to goad one or two in to threatening him.
It’s sad to watch, as Thomson tries desperately to try and recover some credibility
It’s also predictable. From the day he stood outside Auchenhowie challenging Rangers fans on camera to support Celtic when Rangers go out of business it’s been patently obvious what his game was.
There has been an agenda at work since day one, and it has been exposed.
Thomson has been found out, and he has his own stupidity to thank for it.
If he wasn’t all over twitter and blogging about the “threats”, he wouldn’t have had to report them and be left looking very very silly.
I used to be warned as a kid daily not to get in to a bad crowd, and to think for myself.
If Thomson’s mother has done the same, she’ll be upset now at her son throwing away all the years of toil and effort in doing just that. Listening or giving any credibility to maniacs such as Matt McGlone or Phil Something
I could get used to the Glasgow audience chewing up and spitting out talentless cretins.
When’s the next Spiers gig?
Bill
Update: I have been made aware that Thomson has now resorted to comparing Ally McCoist to war criminals, in a crude effort to deflect attention from himself on to McCoist, and most probably to continue to bait Rangers supporters.
I suspect it will be more likely to bait Mr McCoist’s lawyers
Bill
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