Pat Nevin accuses Celtic
At half-time in the Celtic v Motherwell match at Hampden anchor man Rob McLean chose to broadcast claims that Celtic fans had been singing sectarian songs.
McLean was in a studio at Hampden with Nevin, Craig Levein and John Hartson when he decided to change BBC policy and discuss sectarian songs having totally ignored the issue at the League Cup Final in March.
Nevin gleefully seized the opportunity to launch an attack on the Celtic support and promised to ‘mention it every time that I hear it.’
That prompted a backlash from the Celtic support with some fans working through the laborious BBC complaints procedure for clarity on the matter.
Speaking yesterday at the latest tax-payer funded talking shop into sectarian issues Nevin claimed that Celtic as well as individual fans had protested to the BBC about his comments.
“I was shocked and surprised that Celtic Football Club and a great number of fans complained to the BBC,” the former Motherwell Chief Executive claimed. “I expect to hear them say that they do not want to hear that sort of song at their ground.”
Nevin continued: “The song went something like, ‘As a young man, I’m going to join the IRA – provisional wing’. It offended me and I do not want to hear it at a football ground.”
Despite the outrage of McLean and Nevin the BBC have never followed up the issue by replaying the sectarian songs that were discussed in their studio.
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