Phil beat them to it, but wonderfully Whyte spin will come from Ibrox!

Alternative View

18^th June 2011

Matt McGlone

Be assured their new ‘Director of Football’ Gordon Smith, will be taking more than a passing interest of the PR coming out of Ibrox!  

He has been working solidly in & around the press since he retired long ago, apart from his short spell at the SFA, and those press contacts are set in friendship & stone.

But as Chick Young that ever so eloquent of sports writers (sic) who is a very close mate, as is the other blabbering & blubbering tank Derek Johnstone, who were being primed & were about to break the story, in nipped several hours earlier, the effervescent, sprightly minded, ahead of the real game, our very own Alternative View columnist, Phil MacGiolla Bhain!

Phil keeps his contacts in that Fork Knox mental safe of his, and although he would never work for mainstream tabloids in Scotland, the editors of these newspaper (I say ‘newspapers’ loosely) know how much of a diamond he is!     

With the media Spaniels now panting in line, tit-bits will be plentiful in the press & media and Rangers will now more or less get a free run with how they wish a headline & a story to appear, (what’s new I hear you say). Angles in how the same story is written & presented will be written with their chums approval. Have no doubt about that!

Although that Irish Wolfhound Phil will no doubt be more than a paw print ahead of them!    

Only this morning some of his BBC colleagues when making press announcements about his new role at Ibrox were referring to him as ‘Smudger’ which is his nickname. No doubt ‘Smudger’ will be repaying them & will be less than a phone call away in the future!

As their new ‘borrow borrow’ saviour Craig Whyte, who will hardly be around Ibrox put it this morning "Working in London some of the time can give me a little escape from the goldfish bowl of Glasgow - and I will use it to make sure I am fresh to be at my best on Rangers business." Yes, a real PR fast spinner already ‘Fresh to be at my best for Rangers business.’ In other words I’ll hardly be here but make it look good, chummys!