Alternative Facts Are Reality In The Scottish Media

The title run in provided us with with proof positive that when it comes to reporting on Scottish football, the mainstream media are now dealing in alternative facts.

Celtic shouldn’t have been awarded a penalty at Fir Park, Hearts players were assaulted on Celtic Park, the title decider was abandoned early because of a pitch invasion and Derek McInnes wasn’t caught on tape singing about being up to his knees in fenian blood.

Of course “alternative facts” don’t exist but the phrase was first introduced to excuse Donald Trump’s whoppers and is now widely understood as a description of bare faced lies.

Scottish football first opened itself up to the use of alternative facts when Rangers F.C. went into administration back in 2012 followed by the inevitable liquidation.

Back then the mainstream media were caught off guard by the pace of events and without David Murray to worry about they actually reported the reality of Ranger’s demise.

RFC RIP etc.

Since then there has been a desperate attempt to rewrite history and pretend those iconic front page headlines don’t exist. The journalists working at those papers now regularly claim it’s the same club and 2012 was just some financial problems.

Once you start telling lies to cover up inconvenient truths anything is possible.

SCOTTISH MEDIA- DENYING THE TRUTH, FABRICATING THEIR REALITY

One very inconvenient truth for the Scottish sports media is the video they have all watched of Jambo loser Derek McInnes singing about being up to his knees in fenian blood.

The video surfaced just before The Rangers travelled to Tyncastle last month in the title run in.

Back in 2022 when Kyle Lafferty was caught saying “”pack of Fenian bastards” in a video, the reaction was swift.

He was fined by his club at the time and the SFA banned him for ten games. He was immediately dropped by Northern Ireland.

All of which was widely reported in the press.

But when the video appeared of Derek McInnes singing the song that caused UEFA to close part of Ibrox because they found it racist and discriminatory – tumbleweed.

Not a word was said or reported as the usual suspects looked the other way or counted their feet.

1999 same again.
And let’s be clear here, this chant was never ok at any time and isn’t part of some new enlightened thinking around the subject.
Both Donald Findlay and Craig Brown were caught around 1999 and neither said ‘it’s just a ditty’. pic.twitter.com/0y5UEx6QJU
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) May 1, 2026

Long gone are the days when the Daily Record reported Donald Findlay singing the same song and he was forced to resign.

NO MCINNES WITCH HUNT

McInnes faced no consequences from his club, the SFA or the media and was allowed to continue in his role as a national treasure, passing comment on all things Celtic.

Reputation intact, McInnes went on to lead the charge against Celtic’s penalty at Fir Park.

The now famous crystal clear handball that was awarded by two Celtic daft referees in Andrew Dallas and John Beaton and then confirmed by Willie Collum.

No amount of evidence was going to deflect away from the narrative that Celtic got a soft penalty that McInnes described as “disgusting”.

Disgusting would be a better description of McInnes’ karaoke performance with Richard Gough but then nobody in the media is ever going to ask him about that.

Then came Celtic’s glorious final day title win and of course excuses had to be found in a pathetic attempt to ruin the moment.

PAT NEVIN- FABRICATOR IN CHIEF

Step forward Pat Nevin, Ryan Stevenson, Andy Halliday, Allan Preston and others to float the “Hearts players were assaulted” lie. All broadcast by the BBC.

Followed up swiftly by the farcical “game was abandoned” lie, Keith Jackson is still looking for the missing minute behind cupboards at Daily Record HQ.

At least the ‘missing minutes’ theory was shot down by the SFA.

But the other lies, or alternative facts, are still out there and the people that spouted them have yet to retract them or apologise.

Most of them are working the World Cup for the BBC.

So if you do take in any of the Scottish sports media commentary on the World Cup, remember you are entering into a world with alternative facts.

Rangers were never liquidated, Celtic shouldn’t have been awarded a penalty at Fir Park, Hearts players were assaulted at Celtic Park and Derek McInnes was not caught on video singing about being up to his knees in fenian blood.

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1 Comment

by Legend97
Posted June 8, 2026 8:29 pm 0Likes
Brilliant piece Brendan my thoughts exactly. All this p*sh about 55 and constantly using the O*d F*rm nonsense.
Scottish Football is turning into one big lie as you say about the the club that died never being spoken about nobody uses the word liquidation.
Any songs with their name in it like “No h*ns at hampden” should be changed to SEVCO. And I would wish for every celtic fan to use the term Glasgow derby.
If rolls were reversed the media and sevco fans would make sure everything that happened was never forgotten and our history/titles had gone with the club that died.
I no longer talk to their fans about football. When they start mentioning o*d f*rm or 55 I find it hard to keep a straight face. I refuse to join in with their lies as a grown adult.
It’s embarrassing