JABBA THE AGNIVORE

 THE LAST POST?

Today the Daily Record decided to suspend all comments on its football stories. They gave the following reasons for doing this:

"We are talking about personal abuse directed against other users and members of our staff, foul language, hate speech, sectarianism and systematic, tit-for-tat deletion of posts."

Anyone that posts on the Daily Record will recognise the personal abuse, hate speech, sectarianism and deletion of posts aspects. Most of this is down to one person, who has changed his username a few times but always posts the same hate-filled drivel and somehow manages to delete all posts by Celtic fans every Sunday. Surprisingly, nobody at the Daily Record has seen fit to ban this individual.

Anyway, the bit that stands out for me is the 'personal abuse directed against...members of our staff.' To me this would suggest Traynor, about whose obvious partiality quite a few folk have posted. The poor wee lamb's feelings have evidently been hurt!

Anyone that has ever listened to Traynor's 'Your Call' programme on a Saturday will know that he is not averse to handing out insults to his callers. His insults and abuse tend to be directed at a particular set of supporters, whom he characterises as paranoid and out of touch. I myself was at the receiving end of his 'wit' one Saturday. I had phoned to ask, quite reasonably, in 2010 to ask why Celtic fans were labelled as paranoid for calling into question penalties and other 'honest mistakes' that occurred in favour of Rangers. I pointed out that when, in 2008, Rangers fans squealed about Celtic getting a couple of penalties the Daily Record started to call in to question the competence and integrity of our referees. They even hired a psychiatrist to interview the referee for the first Old Firm derby. Traynor's reply? He was going to send the psychiatrist round to me!

The point I'm making is that folk like Traynor smugly sit in their radio studio, handing out insults and abuse with impunity. Hugh Keevins does the same thing on Radio Clyde. But let anyone say anything about them on a newspaper forum then they scream victimisation. I have to say that I have never seen anything posted about Traynor that is anywhere near as bad as the things he says to, and about, callers to his radio programme.

Like all bullies, he can dish it out but he can't take it!