Retired. Still lives on the southside and has a cottage in County Donegal.
As in speculated that he was leaving?He wrote about it well before he left?
Just watched that Davie Robertson ‘offside’ goal.
I’m only 24 but has it always been this bad towards us with officiating? Bearing in my mind that was during our most successful period.
About 4 players were playing him onside. Shocking.
I had no idea who McNee was but judging by the comments he was a prominent Scottish commentator who had leanings to the darkside. Seems a bit similar to Crocker and Walker now.
Not as bad as some of the pundits around today tbh. Although i probably just didnt care as Rangers won 9 in a row during the years he was writing.
Was he with the NotW then or still in the Sunday Mail? I can remember him doing that, but we got the Mail not the NotWIn his notw column he refused to refer to Gazza by name.
Would only call him “Number 8”
Remember that wee shite James Sanderson on Clyde in the 80s? We fud. Not sure why he came into my head there, must have been a trigger set off by McNee. There seems to be no end to the disdain our Club is held in over the past 30 odd years. Focus and balanced reporting. We can only dream.
Jimmy "were you at the game caller" Sanderson lol. That and "bunkum" were his catchphrases. Mind you, I'd take him over the dross we put up with today.
Brilliant swear filter on the old board.
The OP should be facing 24 hours in the cooler for getting our hopes up.
If memory serves me right he wrote he was leaving for France.As in speculated that he was leaving?
His popularity is the reason we are where we are now wrt Scottish football journalism IMO.
I think it started before his peak days. Cyril Horne in the 50s and 60s, Cliff Hanley in the 60s and 70s and Ian Archer in the 70s and 80s were at it long before Sanderson, who was far from the worst tbh. He criticised us but the team was poor at the time. The other three were just rancid scum.
Has to be the worst offside decision ever.
The entire Celtic defence played him onside!
Wasn’t even a close call.
Correct but all we hear from that lot is Jorge Cadette goal getting chopped offHe and his crew were the only ones in Ibrox that day who didn't know that goal was disallowed. A total fanny. Though the goal SHOULD have stood of course. Shite refereeing is nothing new!
Any photos?Worked with his daughter, was surprised she was as decent as she was given what I thought of her father!
How many locals did he have ffs! He must have been drinking on a Stevie Clarke scale.Used to be a regular in Sharkey's bar.
The tick tock went on for years. Surely on borrowed time now?Bastard OP!!!
Opened this thread hoping I was finally going to get to pish on his grave!!
The tick tock went on for years. Surely on borrowed time now?
This is true.
Mcnee was a fud but he was at least professional when on commentary duty. The current batch are ridiculous.
He was also a huge Golf fan so I’m guessing today he will be glued to the final round of the Masters.
Practising for when he will be sucking c*cks in hell with Desmond White......
What happened with him and Ferguson? He used to week in week out gush about him and man Utd and then all of a sudden he started calling him Sir Furious.
Used to be a regular in Sharkey's bar.
Think he was more of a Heragthy's Bar man.
Never replied.......probably lying in his own pish somewhere.Where else would his cottage be? The Irish find people from Donegal to be bitter lunatics who are best avoided... it seems to be a magnet for the Celtic Minded.
McNee was a very bitter hater of all things Rangers... people pointed to Billy McNeill clocking him as some sort of measure of even-handedness but McNee added the poison in anything to do with Rangers.
The crusade against a Gascoigne was borderline comedy - every week he was slaying him for something and in the end wouldn’t even write the player’s name and called him Number Eight instead.
I remember writing to him every week for a couple of months, basically dissecting his column and calling out his hypocrisy - bastard never even replied.