Alternative View - TalkCeltic

MattMcG · 12-01-2008, 08:34 PM

Anyone else buy this fanzine at the games or elsewhere? I like it but have to say that on occasion it has had a few tabloid moments.

I remember last season when they had an 'exclusive' about how Riordan was about to leave and now the newest issue has the front cover 'Strachan will walk in the summer'. Then you read it and it`s an opinion piece from Matt McGlone.

Went down in my estimation a lot today. That`s the kind of pish you expect to read in the Record or Sun. Or on here

Stick to rippin into the huns, and leave the nonsense to the hacks Bhoys!

Scotia · 12-01-2008, 08:51 PM

used to buy not the view at games.

Ham&Jam · 12-01-2008, 08:58 PM

It's heyday was around the time of fans for change, after that it was a typical fun fanzine. Haven't bought one in years now, but you are correct, leave the exclusives to the guys in the know or those invited to press conferences, i.e. the Broadsheets or the TV media. Didn't Matt have a column in the Celtic View after the success of the campaign?

zmcfc · 12-01-2008, 10:39 PM

I'm more into the TAL fanzine tbh

MattMcG · 13-01-2008, 03:42 AM

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Originally Posted by Ham&Jam

It's heyday was around the time of fans for change, after that it was a typical fun fanzine. Haven't bought one in years now, but you are correct, leave the exclusives to the guys in the know or those invited to press conferences, i.e. the Broadsheets or the TV media. Didn't Matt have a column in the Celtic View after the success of the campaign?

Yeah McGlone worked there for a while until he had fallings out with the board as they wanted a positive spin on everything but he wanted to be free to criticise players/managers/directors etc.

So he moved on to Alternative view. For a while it was an A4 sized glossy magazine until costs got too high and it folded. Started up again this year as a small booklet kinda thing.

What got me is that the magazine is pretty much devoted to pulling up reporters and editors about the utter shite they write about Celtic and the fawning over Murray and his £700 million stadium and whatever else he feeds them.

And yet there on the front cover is 'STRACHAN WILL WALK.....in the summer' where the story is only an opinion by McGlone. Had that been the Record with that headline and a piece by Jim Traynor saying he thinks Strachan will leave soon Celtic fans would be up in arms about the latest misleadin headline.

I`m actually so annoyed I`m going to write him an e-mail haha!