Kirk Broadfoot, Another true story Options

[Gerry]

The Glasgow Rangers player Kirk Broadfoot has today revealed that he has been part of the Channel 4 TV show "Faking It" for the last 3 years.

The player broke the news today at a hastily arranged press conference as it emerged new Scotland manager George Burley had drafted the "player" into his squad for the up coming world cup qualifiers.

Broadfoot who told the waiting press that he was in fact a carpet fitter from Fife said, " This experience has been great but I now feel that I would totally be out of my depth and there's no way I could let the country I love down by pulling on the dark blue jersey".

Channel 4 have defended their decision to allow Broadfoot to move from St Mirren to Rangers. Saints have issued a statement saying, "The program makers approached us with their plan and we were only too willing to be a part of their experiment. We started that season with 4 or 5 new players and knew one was from the program".


Rangers would not be drawn on the future of the player at Ibrox only saying in a short statement, " Kirk has been one of our most consistent performers over the last 18 months". Gers boss Walter Smith was last night unavailable for comment.

SFA chief Gordon Smith was quick to back Burley after some sections of the tartan army turned on the manager and pointed out what they have always known .... that any carpet fitter from Fife can get a game for Scotland if he wears an OLD FIRM strip.

Aberdeen last night issued their own statement and were quick to reassure fans that Jamie Langfield had not been part of the same Channel 4 experiment.

[AMC]

is this a wind up?..lol....read something about it online.........carpet fitter playing for scotland.......well look at wee barry freguson he works fur the alpine lorry....he he

[Mr Calm]

Kirk Broadfoot is the main reason that St Mirren FC are still in the SPL , he was the drive behind their promotion and was the man who , in the league run-in in 2007 , almost singlehandedly kept them up. Limited ability? , maybe , but a future Scotland captain none the less !