Useful Idiots no.3 Alex O'Thomson.

For many years Rangers supporters have labelled Graham Spiers (the discredited journalist) “The Useful Idiot".

His track record of disgraceful comments about Rangers includes disgusting comments about heroes Bill Struth, Davie Cooper and Jock Wallace.
While Spiers is still used and abused by the mentally ill Phil O’Gorman, or whatever he is calling himself this week, the schemers know that Spiers just doesn’t have the credibility any more to get the message across to anyone with any intellect.
The next journo to be approached by a group of activists including Phil Whatshisname and Matt McGlone was veteran BBC journalist Hugh Pym, who politely declined.

So, up stepped Channel 4′s Alex Thomson. Thomson, the Oxbridge educated war correspondent who has reported from the ground in Afghanistan, The Balkans and Africa looked to be real coup.

Until he swung in to action, like a fourth rate stand in for John Wayne.
His first report promised much but delivered nothing other than the sordid spectacle of him bullying an old man for old news (Hugh Adam).

His second report saw him bullying an incompetent and very uncomfortable looking Stewart Regan. It must have been “So far, so good" then, as the agenda schemers clearly wanted a bully with no scruples.
Unfortunately it then started to go downhill.

Thomson broadcast to Channel 4 viewers at the end of March that it had been two years since David Murray owned Rangers, when, as Leggat pointed out, it was nine months.

He had previously stated he bought a ticket at £30 for the recent Old Firm game and sat in the Rangers end. On his blog his “photographic" evidence was taken from the Celtic end. The ticket should have cost £42. Did he lie or is he just stupid?
Then we come to his latest embarrassment.

Since his first visit to Glasgow Thomson had claimed that a local journalist had physically threatened him, after taking umbrage to Thomson’s claims that Glasgow’s sports hacks were lazy and afraid of asking the difficult questions.

That’s not to mention the continuing dialogue with McGlone and Phil Gillisomething,.
Of course Thomson has already been manipulated to broadcast republican Propaganda in the form of a documentary on “Bloody Sunday" some years back. Of course Thomson claims in public never to have met Macsomethingorother, although I am informed that there is a strange coincidence of both Phil and Alex living in Belfast at the same time in the late 1990s. What a coincidence.

So, what of the claims of a threat?

As time has gone by, without any formal complaint to the Police, no one being charged and no one being named, Thomson started being challenged on Twitter by both Rangers fans and Celtic fans to name, shame and press charges.

Thomson then promised to reveal all on a Radio Clyde phone in, and provide evidence of said threat of physical violence



What followed was probably the biggest embarrassment of the lot, and an error symptomatic of sheer laziness and trust in a group of manipulative liars.

Thomson went on Radio Clyde and quoted a threat via the medium of Twitter by a fake account in the name of David Leggat. The Twitter handle @LeggoisBlotto really should have given the game away that it wasn’t Leggat.

A Quick look on Celtic Minded confirmed that the account was set up by a user called “MK Ultra", who also Tweeted as Leebowers.



As far as I can see, references to both accounts on Celtic Minded have been deleted in a desperate attempt to cover the tracks of said person, who clearly doesn’t want people to know a) he was behind both accounts, and b) that the fake Leggat account threatened Thomson.

I also understand that any posts on Celtic Minded that include such detail were chopped last night.

So, the much talked about threat to Thomson as it stands amounts to a tweet from a fake account set up by a user of Celtic Minded.

That Thomson was taken in by such a move without verifying its validity is yet more evidence of an apparently credible journalist being lazy, gullible, and far from the thorough journalist he would have us believe

Of course, with his credibility in tatters this morning, Thomson is still claiming that he has further evidence of threats which he will take to the police

Can he be believed though? Has he thoroughly checked his evidence, and its source? Do his claims have enough credibility to secure a successful prosecution?

I’m not a betting man but wouldn’t recommend putting your money on it.

Thomson is losing credibility faster than Neil Lennon can run at a referee, and people are already wondering about the credibility of his reports from far flung war torn countries.