Is covering Scottish Football the Most Dangerous Job In Sports Journalism?

[longhaired freaky person]

Alex Thomson gets threatened the day he arrives in Glasgow daring to peek behind the curtain.
Phil Mac Giolla Bhain writes a book and gets security advice from the Garda.
Now Mark Daly - a man who tried to tell Rangers fans that Craig Whyte was shady - gets threatened on Twitter.

For a country that lectures others on press freedoms...

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/206307-man-d...mark-daly/

[T]

unfortunately both sets of old firm clubs have a moronic element that drags the game and our country into the gutter

[hissingbeetle993]

Ah, Mark Daly, the man who won a Bafta for his expose about Rangers and their illegal use of EBT's.

Unfortunately he ended up with feeling slightly embarrassed when those illegal EBT's turned out to be...legal. Oh, and Rangers won the tax case.

Ah, Alex Thomson, the man who wrote the foreward for "Downfall"

http://blogs.channel4.com/alex-thomsons-...-book/2681

which was written by Phil Gillivan (his real name) now masquerading as Phil MacGhiollaBhain a man whose very same book The Sun refused to serialise.

The Sun branded Phil a man "tarred with a sickening sectarian brush".

[P.T.F.C.]

yes if you come to firhill and try to say their is something wrong with the set up concerning the Champions to be be,you get yer erse kicked and made to drink in the Star & Garter for the rest of your days now that is scary

[themindfluxv2]

tearing down the berlin wall has proven easier than tearing down the great scottish divide...........go figure lol

[Kaffo]

Phil Mc Made-up-name is not a journalist he's a blogger. If he was on the other side you'd be calling him laptop loyal.
Mark Daly is an embarrassment, having a fake conversation on the phone while talking to empty chairs with microphones on them. He must have slept with the bafta committee chairman.

But if this was a serious question about real journalists then yes, it's potentially a career damager if you say something negative about one side or the other.