The cynicism on here is soul destroying. I understand it and in many ways it is justified but it's still sad to witness nonetheless.
We've seen our club dragged through hell and back and hindered and demonised at every turn just for existing, while another club in the same city is helped, promoted and protected by the very organisations supposed to be responsible for fairness and equality for all in society, despite them being guilty of heinous crimes against that society as a whole, never mind their own sub section of it. It is FUBAR. There's no denying it.
But lets get real here. Alex Thomson has said some stupid things and has been no friend of ours, at least he wasn't in the past (although surely he must be seeing the light now). But nonetheless, he's not working in isolation here. Whole management and production teams will be involved. Researchers, journalists, cameramen, producers; decent men and women, parents from outside the goldfish bowl. I can only imagine the amount of information they have received over the years especially given his hypocricy and comments about EBT being worse than abuse. Ch 4 will have been inundated with complaints and proof of the truth. Do you really think that all these people will be party to a whitewash here? Given the nature and extent of the crimes?
No way. It's more likely that his bosses have ordered Thomson to do this or, and I actually think this is a possibilty, he has seen the error of his ways and realised just how wrong he has been. If he now knows what we know, and he should, then perhaps he will start to understand the anger and frustration from the side of Glasgow that he thought of as the enemy. It's funny how different your perspective can be from the inside when all you've had to go on from the outside is agenda driven hyperbole distributed by a corrupt media that you have no reason to distrust. It's too easy for us to be dismissed as football rivals, fanatics, bigots. Thats why it's so important that outsiders are invited to see and report this for themselves.
So, if Thomson is reporting this honestly we have to give him the benefit of the doubt, and be prepared to accept him as an ally moving forward, forgiving the sins of the past, if he truly has turned over a new leaf. We shall see.