Let's cut to the chase, regards this CRETIN it really is knowing where to start that is the main problem. So with that in mind we'll begin with the gentle stuff. The first time he came to real prominence and was made a figure of ridicule here at FF was in the bleak midwinter of season 95/96. The yahoos travelled to Easter Rd in the November and came back with a 4-0 victory in the bag and the superlatives were flowing. 'Whisper it' Spiers said; 'This was a performance of potential champions.'
Just six or seven weeks later that same Hibs team came to Ibrox and were obliterated 7-0, by a superb all round team performance from Rangers interspersed with magnificent individual performances from Laudrup, Gascoigne and Durie. Spiers summed it up thus; 'That result was an embarrassment for Scottish football.'
But since then what has happened is that Spiers' 'narkiness' has joined to the hipbone of 'snideiness' and that has given way to bitter carping and that has led to the forthright invective, and outright hatred of all things Rangers/Protestant that we have to contend with, almost on a daily basis in the here and now.
Hatred is a thing that needs to be nudged along and nurtured folks. And to be honest, there is no one better at playing the 'long game' than the Celtic Minded. And what has happened along the way is that this son of the Manse has been roped in and has gradually evolved and been moulded into the Celtic Minded's 'Useful Idiot'. No more no less.
Again, I could give you a list as long as your arm of the lies from this reprobate. The East Enclosure singing the mythical; 'Klinsman's a Klansman' I mean why would anyone with a brain equate a Christian refusing to meet the pontiff, with the Klu Klux Klan? This is a typical west of Scotland RC mantra, so there are no prizes for guessing who was working this muppet from the back with that one.
But again that's the mild stuff. Since then he has upped the ante and then some. He told us for instance that he witnessed thousands of Rangers fans in the East Enclosure making monkey gestures at Bobo the thug. Not being very bright however and in his rush to have a bash at Rangers fans he forgot that from his vantage point in the press box he simply could not see this part of Ibrox. Thus the many thousands making monkey gestures turned into what we knew all along, a handful of boozed up neds. A handful too many of course.
Then we have Spiers' curiously lopsided views on religious bigotry and sectarianism. Spiers as you all know took part in a stage managed
anti-sectarian road show last April that was timed to take place during the very hours Rangers were playing an important match at Fir Park in run in to the title.
Now you would think that anyone who was sincere in the fight against sectarianism would baulk at taking part in a farce that was deliberately timed and primed to exclude one half of the sectarian divide from taking part in the debate, and rather would recognise this as a sectarian act in itself. But no, Spiers was more than happy to go along with this.
Of course Spiers' credibility regards fighting religious intolerance was shot to pieces the previous November when he actually came out and defended Neil Lennon's part in the most deliberately provocative bigoted and sectarian behaviour in the history of the Old Firm fixture at Ibrox in the Celtic shame game. Truly there is no shaming this nonce.
I suppose it's all a matter of personal perspective and how you view things from within but there are for me two wanton acts of deliberate anti Rangers journalism that in my humble opinion must never be forgotten when we talk about Spiers.
The first 'spookily enough' was on some midweek sporting trash that passes for entertainment up here a few years ago when Spiers was allowed to make the preposterous claim that in the last dozen years or so there had been 15 deaths that could have been classed as sectarian and related to the Old Firm fixture, and what's more all the victims were Celtic fans.
It took a letter from one of the head honchos at Strathclyde Police to tell us the real facts of the matter. Yes there had been 15 deaths in the period but only 7 of these victims were Celtic fans. Be in no doubt here, this was incitement to hatred on Spiers' part. Because as we all know, Timmy just loves playing the victim and nothing inflames him more than the thought of all those dead RCs lying strewn around the streets throughout the West of Scotland. The fact of the matter is Timmy does not need an excuse to hate. Spiers gave him a deliberate juicy lie to feed his paranoia and pathological tendencies on.
I've saved the worst for last however. On the last day of October last year Aberdeen visited Ibrox. It didn't take long for Dolly to get into the old singing routine. You know the drill here, the Durrant stuff and more importantly the Ibrox Disaster repertoire.
Sitting behind Spiers that day was a mate of mine who drew Spiers' attention to what Dolly was singing regards the Ibrox Disaster. Billy's words to him were civil and along the following lines; 'Mr Spiers, you're very quick to criticise the Rangers support for some of the songs we sing I hope you're taking note of what that lot are singing in the Broomloan Stand'.
Billy alerted Spiers to the behaviour of the Aberdeen support yet again ten minutes or so down the line and Spiers like the weasel he is sloped off and came back with a steward and said that my mate was harassing him. This of course was a piece of nonsense but Billy was under strict orders from the stewards to shut his mouth or he'd be ejected. Because someone who works at Ibrox had given Billy this ticket he had to keep his mouth shut from then onwards.
That is not the end of the matter however because this is how Spiers chose to describe the behaviour of the Aberdeen support the following day in The Herald; “they were here in numbers and crooning their heads off.” The main thing we have to remember here is that Spiers deliberately used these words despite knowing all along the subject matter that Dolly was actually singing about.
Again, in my humble opinion this is incitement to hatred on Spiers' part. The bottom line is, you wouldn't be allowed to sing about 66 dead coloured people, 66 dead Pakistanis, 66 dead Jews or 66 dead RCs without being taken to task. But a shower of filth singing about 66 dead Rangers fans can be described quite jocularly as “crooning their heads off” ?
Now I want you to think about this. Could you imagine Man Utd fans allowing a reporter to laugh off rival fans singing about the Munich Air Disaster? In similar vein, can you imagine Liverpool fans allowing a journalist to dismiss out of hand cheap jibes at their own dead at Hillsborough? Of course you can't, so why should we tolerate this piece of human body waste, Spiers at Ibrox?
I don't if he realised what he was doing when he made his now famous 'They know who they are' speech. But David Murray has opened up a can of worms and he needs to see this through to its logical conclusion.
Oh and for the record, as far as I am concerned Spiers and Co. can hate Rangers FC and the Rangers support all they want, but they had better play it by the same rules and criteria afforded to others.
We owe it to the memories of the 66 dead back in 1971 to make sure Spiers is hounded for the rest of his time as a professional journalist here in Scotland, till there is no one left who will touch him a bargepole. Then it really will be the Rangers support's turn to croon our heads off.
Yours in Rangers,
THE GOVANHILL GUB