Strangely, or maybe not the Daily Record, Sun and STV have yet to highlight the attack on a young fan who was man-handled by three stewards after James Forrest scored against Aberdeen.
Getting the Police media team to issue that farcical statement explains exactly why Celtic recruited Mark Hargreaves and his contact book.
With the blade terror story taken apart Gaddi wasn’t deterred. On Saturday the Record carried it as a page lead, any excuse to put the boot into Celtic fans goes down well with their ageing Army of Readers.
Columbus Crew are no small town outfit. The 48-year-old has an extensive coaching staff, analysts, fitness and conditioning experts, he was backed by a superb recruitment set up. He had all the bells and whistles.
There are strong reasons for concern but no Celtic fan is fooled by the tag team of Ryan Stevenson and Keith Jackson in the Daily Record.
The story in the Record is copper bottomed. It isn’t a tabloid flying a kite. The Record put the by-lines of their Editor and News Editor against the story.
Nancy held positive talks with Hoops chiefs over the weekend and the push is now on to tie up the deal ahead of the weekend.
The ‘advanced stage’ to the Record story never quite added up. There was no comment from Columbus Crew about an approach for their contracted manager.
It seemed convenient for Gerrard and Cavenagh to hold talks in London. Strangely neither man has been pictured in recent days, all of the messengers have been kept upto date by WhatsApp.
When print circulation is below 40,000 and dropping at 18% year on year the Record is utterly desperate to grab any sort of digital audience regardless of the content and accuracy.