Page 21 of today's Scottish Sun has an exclusive on "Computer game in Famine Song Row."
It is a lot of nonsense about background chants on the soundtrack to computer game Pro Evolution Soccer 2010, and is filled with the usual anonymous quotes from members of the public: most normally mentalist Yahoos or Sun journos.
None of this is especially newsworthy or interesting, but then at the end we have the following:
A spokesman for anti-sectarian charity Nil By Mouth said: "We're pleased the firm acted to make the changes."
Nothing at first glance particularly odd about that - NBM have often been contacted or released statements before - but then a thought occurs.
Did we miss the Nil By Mouth comments on the Aberdeen players Diamond and Paton and their anti-Protestant filth?
Here's a link to the story in the Sun. There's no NBM comment.
http://www.thesun.co.uk/scotsol/homepage/news/3169088/Dons-pair-rapped-on-Pope-jibes.html
Did they make up for this by commenting on this week's Ayr United incident, where Scott McLaughlin made obscene sectarian references?
Here's the link to the story in the Sun. There's no NBM comment.
What conclusions should be drawn from this?
1. Nil By Mouth take long summer holidays.
2. Newspapers like The Sun don't ask NBM for comment on stories which aren't anti-Rangers.
3. NBM don't care about sectarianism when it is anti-Protestant, even when the use of sectarian terms as set out on their own web site is involved.
Who can guess? Why not ask them -
By Phone:
0141 225 8008
By Fax:
0141 248 8066
By Post:
Nil By Mouth
c/o SCVO
3rd Floor
Centrum Offices
38 Queen Street
Glasgow
G1 3DX