There’s room for everybody in Celtic cyberspace, but sometimes, certain things need to be pointed out…

Last Monday night on the Trinity Tims towards the end of the show, we finished our discussion about certain aspects of Celtic cyberspace, and the direction fan media has taken in recent times.

We namechecked a certain site, and it appears to have caused a bit of consternation.

Personally, I addressed a beef I had with another site, I didn’t name that site, but I described what it does and how it behaves.

I stated that I wouldn’t be mentioning it again.

And I won’t be.

Nor will I be mentioning the site we namechecked again, but I will be putting to bed the reasons we had an issue with the site.

The evidence to back our issues and our concerns is incontrovertible.

But before I reveal that, I’ll put our concerns into context.

Read Celtic, my site, belongs to the Read network of sites.

On the Read network, there are sites for nearly every club in the EPL, all of which lie dormant at the moment as nobody mans them.

There is also a Read R*****s site.

It has been dormant since 2019.

The last story written on it was about the sending off of Jordan Jones in the Glasgow Derby at Ibrox in September 2019.

So, hypothetically speaking, as a Celtic fan of 40+ years, if I approached my editor and told him I’d take over Read R*****s, that would be really, really weird, wouldn’t it?

I mean, the first thing I could do is put a negative slant on everything I wrote about the Ibrox side.

Regardless of the fact I strongly dislike them, that would be totally disingenuous.

Effectively, I would be lying to the Ibrox fans.

Whatever way you cut that, its morally wrong.

It would be utterly impossible for me to engage in ‘neutral’ reporting in my efforts to earn a wage from it, simply because of my hardcore Celtic leanings.

Every fibre of my being would encourage me to be extremely mischevious in my approach to writing on this site.

Simply because that’s the way I’m wired.

Effectively, I am not compatible with such a site, simply because I see everything through green tinted specs as a hardcore Celtic fan.

So, now I’ve given you context, take a look at the below image:

That is a screenshot of the now defunct R*****s News website, operated by the same company who operates the Celtic site we discussed on Monday night.

That is the bio of the author we discussed.

Can you see anything at all wrong with that picture?

This is the site the author we discussed transferred over from, which still retains his bio, albeit it now states he has ‘an extensive knowledge of Celtic’.

While remaining on an Ibrox affiliated site.

Now, I don’t know anything at all about the author, other than what I’m reading.

But you can see where our legitimate concerns on the Trinity Tims arose from, can you not?

Our observations on the podcast arose from what we all read.

Which was a bio, on a Celtic site, which stated the author had ‘an extensive knowledge of R*****s’.

This has now been changed, as you can clearly see on the Ibrox site pictured above.

Now, for all I know, the author in question might be a Partick Thistle fan?

I’m open to contradiction here, and will quite happily be corrected on this subject, should anyone step forward and choose to correct me.

Perhaps he is entirely neutral when it comes to Celtic and the Ibrox club?

And is purely a football writer?

If he wishes to come on the Trinity Tims and clarify all of this, he’s more than welcome to.

And if he does, I’ll openly apologise for namechecking the site he writes on.

Because in reality, that’s all I did.

We went on to flesh out the pitfalls of someone with leanings towards the Ibrox club writing about Celtic after that.

Which effectively was in the exact same context as I explained above when it comes to Read R*****s.

You can see why it would raise concerns?

If we’re guilty of anything, its maybe assuming that this author actually was an Ibrox supporter?

But you can also see why we’d be led to that conclusion.

Especially when the author was a heavy presence on R*****s News.

That site is still fully searchable, and you will find many stories under that author’s name.

But as I said, I’m more than happy to be corrected on the whole score.

As the title to this article says, there is room for everyone on Celtic cyberspace.

But a key attribute to being a Celtic blogger, and one which very much works in your favour, is if you are actually a Celtic fan.

Hence the reason its called Celtic fan media.

Because the majority of it is written by Celtic fans.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m not saying that people who aren’t Celtic supporters can’t write about Celtic.

All I’m saying is that it helps, because you might just be that bit more passionate about your writing.

I know I am.

And I know both Joe and James are extremely passionate about the club too.

In conclusion, I’ll once again extend an offer for the author we discussed to come onto the Trinity Tims and clarify his position.

If we’re guilty of anything, it is not affording him that much when we discussed him on Monday night.

Which you can see below, if you wish to check it out.

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