If there’s one thing football fans love, it’s a pile of hot, steaming transfer gossip.
Even those of us who like to think we’re above all that, we still can’t prise ourselves completely away from it.
Sure, we might get better at separating the nonsense from the reliable ITKers, but then all it takes is for some spurious link to an unknown gem you once signed on Football Manager and you can suddenly find yourself down a rabbit hole of gossip columns, Twitter accounts and YouTube compilations.
And it’s everywhere now. The traditional newspapers all publish their own tidbits in print, as well as the existentially challenging live blogs online, plus thousands of websites spuriously regurgitating and conflating various reports into one big cyclone of transfer terror.
But what about back in the day – the simpler times when you could leave your door open and a match ticket cost the same as a pint of bitter – what did they do then?
Surely, with the media industry in a much healthier state than that which it finds itself in today, newspapers didn’t lower themselves to such degrading means?
Oh, sorry, what’s that you’ve left there…
Cringe journalism alert –
A newspaper article in the 90s saying that Kenny Dalglish was taking over as Rangers Manager and this is the team he was looking to build – worth a scan if you fancy a giggle 🙈 pic.twitter.com/Ppk7L2nQhn— Bertie Cam (@cammyb81) February 2, 2019
Ah. Right. So it turns out they just went completely mental instead.
It’s difficult to know where to start with this, so let’s get the facts we do know.
The report was published in the Daily Record in November 1996. Rangers, managed by Walter Smith, would go on to win the league that year, but crucially had just been knocked out of the Champions League at the group stage, which may explain why there was a sense supporters needed some good news.
Despite being a former Celtic hero, Dalglish grew up a Rangers supporter and a month later was appointed ‘international talent scout’, although his role appeared to be more focussed on attracting celebrities to a new golf course at Loch Lomond.
One of the first signings Dalglish was involved with was the £3.5million capture of Chile international Sebastian Rozental, who went on to make just 21 appearances for Rangers over five years.
So we’re not saying the suggestion that Rangers could sign the players listed in the above report are completely false, but it does read suspiciously…
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