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Reference to: Online Celtic supporters; Online football analysts & bloggers
Derivations: Celtic Bampots, Online Bampottery
Started: 2012 (by Media muppet Jim Traynor)
Definition
Internet Bampots refers to the burgeoning number of online football writers not involved with the mainstream media. It was derived in 2012 and used pejoratively by media incumbent (and Hun lick-spittle) Jim Traynor to belittle the general online Celtic community following our success in revealing the tax scandals at Rangers whilst the mainstream media avoided the issued (the tag was first used by Traynor on a Radio Scotland program). He was a bitter man, and the tag has become a badge of honour to us.
Following the success of online amateur bloggers (like Rangers Tax Case and CQN), independent journalists (like Phil Mac Ghilobain) and online forums (such as Celtic Underground and KDS), the mainstream media has been in decline. If anything, the tabloid market had become near irrelevant and is now defunct for comment. The broadsheet market hangs on thankfully. This has led to friction from various journalists and inevitably the intended swipe was taken against the Celtic community for their skill and success in tackling & revealing the shenanigans at Ibrox.
In many ways 2012 was a major turning point. The whole Rangers liquidation case was led and pushed by the “new media”. Laughably, the “old media” tried to steal the thunder with supposed exclusives by the Daily Record even though the whole issue (in greater detail) was already exposed far earlier on the internet.
We can all laugh at Jim Traynor’s faux pas, a man with with no credibility following his paean to David Murray (the infamous succulent lamb article from around 2000). His retorts clearly shows the impact of the online football writing community. The media have stuck their heads in the sand over the Rangers bankruptcy, whilst the Celtic game online community have been ahead of the pack.
As a measure of the success of the phrase, Celtic author Paul Larkin titled his 2012 book “By Any Means Necessary – A Journey With Celtic Bampots“, whilst a series of satirical annuals by a group of satirists from the KDS forum was produced entitled “Unrepentant Internet Bampots“.
Another victory came in December 2012, when Jim Traynor resigned from his position as Sports Head writer (sic!) at the Daily Record newspaper, citing that he was unable to work in the position now, pinning blame on amongst others the online community and trying to paint himself as some standard bearer of truth. It was quite laughable and showed his inability (and that of others) to adjust to the new media world and the loss of their hegemony over information. It became even more laughable when it was revealed that over the past year or two he’d been working in hand with Rangers’ owners for a job at their club and had been getting them to vet certain of his articles.
The ‘Internet Bampots‘ have taken over and there is no turning back.