When news broke over the past 24
hours of former Rangers goalkeeper Neil Alexander supposedly saying Danny
Wilson was too good for Rangers, the media and headlines had a field day.
The same media which let Lee
Erwin & a deranged Motherwell ‘fan’ off the hook (pun intended) because
Bilel Mohnsi’s indiscretions made for much better headline material has
recently been misleading fans again by taking Alexander’s comments both out of
context, and as an attack on Rangers.
I am not Alexander’s biggest fan,
given he went public in 2013 about private wage negotiations, whining about ‘only’
being offered 65%, plus of course took Rangers to court. None of this endeared
him to me, or indeed most other Rangers fans.
However, this site tries to
reason with fact and logic, and to say Alexander has been misquoted and
manipulated in order to sell newspapers and get hits is nothing short of a
gross understatement.
He was asked about the
speculation linking Wilson to Rangers and the
Championship, and specifically whether Wilson
was too good for the Championship, and his reply was thus:
“Danny showed last year he was a level
above the standard (of the Championship). He played to such a consistent level
and was one of our main players.”
Sorry to tell you folks, but this
is exactly why Rangers are trying to
sign him! Dave King has stated Rangers want 7 or so SPL-quality players right
now, and Alexander has just verified that Wilson
is precisely the quality of player that entails.
Alexander was directly asked if the player was ‘too good’ and
he answered. He did not offer up an insult of his own accord, he was simply
answering a direct question.
He went on:
“All this talk of Celtic and Rangers
being interested in him, we expected that because we know how good he is.”
Where exactly is the derogatory
insult here implying Rangers are a step down? Indeed, the summary of his
comments is that Wilson is exactly what Rangers are trying to sign, and his own
quality has attracted Scotland’s biggest two clubs.
This is just yet another example
of Scottish media twisting quotes and completely misrepresenting what the
player has said, in order to outrage fans.
I am not Alexander’s most ardent
fan, but shall we maybe stick to the facts please?