THE FILTH AND THE FURY

I haven't written anything for a week now but nothing much has changed. Bisto FC is still on its way down the crapper, Auld Pishy is still missing, the Bisto Kids are still ranting about 'State Aid' and McMurdo is still spouting bigoted filth about the Catholic Church.

I think everybody had a good laugh at the story of Nottingham Forest trying to buy Lee Wallace from Bisto for just under £1m. Bisto knocked back the offer, looking for £1.5m. Forest have instead signed Danny Fox from Southampton, refusing to be held to ransom by a third-tier club. It was good PR for Bisto and makes one wonder if that's all it was. Nottingham Forest's website has absolutely nothing on the proposed deal; it's all in the press, with, strangely, not one comment from Forest. Methinks the hand of Jack Irvine is involved.

They're desperate to make everybody think they're not in trouble but, if that were the case then what was the point of the 15% reduction in wages they asked the players to take? The Bisto Kids might boast that they're debt-free but that's not necessarily a good thing; it means that no bugger trusts them enough to extend them credit! Some folk are saying that liquidation beckons. If it does happen then the Bisto Kids should be afraid. There will be no fraudulent, backstairs deals, like that between Green and Duff and Phelps, this time. Two hedge funds have got their foot in the door and they couldn't care less about bravado, bluff and defiance about 'Savin' Raynjurz.' All they will want is the maximum return for their investors, which means selling the assets to the highest bidder. Asda, perchance?

Idiots on McMurdo's site might brag about 'Coming down the road' and that Celtic should be afraid. The reality is, however, that the only ones 'Coming down the road' are HMRC. As a lot of people are now pointing out, Bisto FC is effectively a phoenix company and could actually be liable for the tax frauds of Rangers. Interesting times ahead.

The only crumb of comfort the Bisto Kids have is the desperate hope that the EC will dig up something on Celtic. The attempts of dinosaur jockey Gregory Campbell to get the Treasury to look into Celtic's dealings with the Co-Op Bank took a hammering when he received the answer that loans are a matter between the two companies concerned and nothing whatsoever to do with the government. When last seen Campbell was back in Derry, kicking hell out of his pet velociraptor.

So their only hope is the land deals that they claim were stitched up between Glasgow City Council and Celtic. Even then they can't get things right; they were going on about GCC selling the land in Lennoxtown to Celtic, even though it was actually Greater Glasgow Health Board. There is also the small matter that all land was independently valued, in some cases by a government agent. That doesn't stop their whining, though. Apparently the whole country has been taken over by Catholics. It's a conspiracy I tells ya!

This is a recurring theme on McMurdo's blog, where the man himself decides to talk about the initial findings of the Historical Institutional Abuse inquiry in Northern Ireland. If the stories about the Sisters of Nazareth's childrens homes are even partly true then condemnation is in order. The abuse suffered by the children reads like something out of a horror story. The fact is, however, that the HIA inquiry is not, as McMurdo and his cohorts seem to think, an investigation into the Catholic Church. They will be looking at all instances of abuse, including the notorious Kincora Boys' Home. If they discover the truth about what went on there, do you think McMurdo will have a blog recounting the abuse and condemning it? Somehow I doubt it. Anyone that goes on his blog to argue that other organisations have been, and are, involved in child abuse, gets their post deleted and are accused of 'Whatabootery.'

The bigots that regularly post on McMurdo's blog take the opportunity to rant and rave about how evil the Catholic Church is. They quote Reformers like Calvin and Knox, as if that proves anything. Knox would be apoplectic if he could see his church today, with women ministers and same-sex marriages. It is also unclear whether he would have the nerve to go on about child abuse, given his penchant for teenage girls. Anyway, one clown quotes different popes going on about a 'satanic influence' in the church. What this is supposed to prove I don't know. If the Pope was the Antichrist then he'd hardly go about complaining about satanic influences, would he?

Others claim that all the child abuse in the world can be laid at the door of the Vatican, while others go further and say that all the abusers in the Catholic Church worldwide are Irish! Do you detect some kind of theme here? The fact is that child abuse is endemic throughout the world and only an absolute bigot would try to use it as a stick with which to beat one race of people or one religion. The same thing happens elsewhere. In England a paedophile ring that included Muslims is often cited as proof positive of how evil Islam is. Like any bigot their hatred comes first and then they look for rationalisations. Such bigoted assertions have been around for centuries. Google the words 'blood libel' and you'll see what I mean.

One nutcase bangs on about how there should be a King James Bible in every school and that children should be taught about the 'heroes' of the Reformation and what Protestantism is all about. That'll be in the non-denominational schools that they all claim to want their children to attend, eh? Teaching about Protestantism, moreover, would cause more problems than it solved. How do you explain to children that they should behave and live good lives when God has already decided who's going to Heaven and who's going to Hell? And what about Calvin's assertion that, out of the billions that have inhabited or will inhabit the Earth, only 144,000 are going to be saved? I think most children would be able to work out that the odds of being saved are slim; so what's the point? And if God has already saved them, then why should they worry? They can go on the rampage secure in the knowledge that their thieving, vandalism and even murder is okay in God's eyes. Mind you, that sounds like your average Bisto Kid at present!

Meanwhile Leggat is still missing. Either he's ill, dead or in the mother and father of all huffs. Perhaps Phil Mac Whatsit could get onto his NUJ cronies to check if the auld alky's still breathing. Then again, he got kicked out of the NUJ, didn't he? Maybe a wee post on the Vanguard Bears website would not go amiss. I'm sure one of them would go and check that he hasn't done himself a mischief.

WHERE'S LEGGAT?

(HE'S THERE SOMEWHERE - HONEST!)