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Neil Lennon newsWhat will it take for BBC Scotland to acknowledge Celtic’s SPL title triumph?

The fans had barely left their seats at Celtic Park yesterday when the state broadcaster was publishing an article titled ‘How credible is Celtic’s title win’ roping in some quotes from Pat Bonner in a bid to give it legitimacy.

Deviating from the script Bonner stated: “Nobody can take away what Celtic achieved this year as far as the Champions League is concerned and they had to mix the league in among that.

“When you add that pressure into it and the motivation, to keep the players going, week in week out, then I think it’s been a great achievement.”

Having attempted to detract from Celtic’s triumph by bringing up the absence of Rangers the article went on to speculate on the likely departures from Neil Lennon’s title winning squad.

While those sort of knocking pieces are fair game for commercial outlets looking for controversy and notoriety the state broadcaster is a different beast that ought to bring some balance and insight to it’s materials.

Supporters can take or leave newspapers or commercial television and radio stations but there is no choice with the state funded broadcaster.

Not long afterwards the BBC took up a new ‘innovative’ angle in the debate with ‘Did Celtic miss their rivals this season?’ with yet another piece about the absence of the club that went into liquidation owing hundreds of creditors across the country.

Despite the easy access to the information there is no mention of Celtic’s Champions League qualification path or analysis of likely opponents.

With a few honourable exceptions in Mark Daly, Jim Spence, Stuart Cosgrove and Richard Gordon it seems that very few people at the BBC can adjust to the reality that after a dozen years of living outwith their means Rangers are dead and almost buried.

Attempts by the BBC to trigger a debate only delays the realignment of Scottish football, a new environment in which Kilmarnock, Hearts and St Mirren can win silverware and more than half of the SPL can aspire to the lucrative prize money on offer for the team finishing second in the SPL.

While the BBC attempt to make the liquidated Rangers the centre of attention, even in their absence, this is no two way agreement with the cameras and microphones of the BBC banned from recording the words of wisdom from Ally McCoist.

Some original thoughts and ideas from the vast resources of the BBC would be welcomed throughout Scottish football but the output remains as tired and predictable as the third rate Sunday Sportscene running alongside the outstanding output from Match of the Day.

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  • williebhoy says:

    Personally I don’t give a toss what the media say…never buy a paper, nor listen to any radio phone in. I do recall hearing that “experts” were saying we would have been better out of Europe rather than playing Udinese, Rennes etc which shows what they REALLY know.

    I’m certain that Alex Ferguson & Arsene Wenger have both acknowledged how difficult it to balance playing in the CL along with domestic fixtures which makes Celtic’s success in both even more remarkable. It’s highly unlikely in the current environment that we will lift eh CL trophy again, so making the knock-out stages is definitely success for us right now. To also wrap up the title with 4 games remaining, despite the many injuries we have faced is further testimony to the squad we have.

    Certainly we have hit some troubled waters during the course of the season, but 11 straight home wins is a superb answer to any critic. Furthermore with Sevco losing to the likes of Peterhead / Stirling Albion and struggling against 33% of their “rivals” just what sort of feeble challenge would they have offered, much less than Dundee I’d wager.

    By my reckoning we have dropped 30 points this season, a quick look back at the tainted 9-in-a-row seasons show that despite unparallelled access to bank loans/ other donations they still managed to drop more points in at least 4 seasons, admittedly some of these involved a few more games, but in most they had no credible challenge from Celtic….have they been similarly treated ?

    All that matters from day one is winning the title of Champions of Scotland, anything else is failure. Celtic are on TWO in a row and more to go, truth hurts and worse for them they know there is nothing they can do to stop it as we continue to get stronger.

  • Fultybhoy4 says:

    Spot on joe. These people must be sooking lemons. Sevco are deidco (again) so the EBT squad at the beeb should get over it and start promoting our game

  • scottyk1888 says:

    Works both ways, would they have won d3 if we had been in it. Not the only one with tainted title if you subscribe to that kind of thought. Well done Celtic 125 and counting.

  • The silver fhox says:

    We are the Champions and that is that. We have done Scotland proud in Europe. We have a young, vibrant and improving squad. We have the Scottish cup final to look forward to. We have had good and challenging games this season, whilst balancing the league with Europe. Fair play to the teams who challenged us at the top of the league. Competition is improving all the time and will keep improving as other clubs blood their youngsters.

    As a Celtic supporter, I welcome challenges from Motherwell, Inverness etc. I want to see this continue. Three different clubs have won the last three cup finals and none were Celtic. This cannot be bad for Scottish football.

    Newspapers have become irrelevant, as are their so-called journalists, who do NOT report facts. This freshness would not have been allowed with the outrageous spending with non-existent cash that Oldco used to maintain an imagined superiority. There are many good and well-run clubs in Scotland and they will all improve without one ‘spoilt brat’ overspending and forcing others to do the same.

    I do NOT miss Oldco, Sevco, or whatever the incarnation is called. I do NOT miss them and they are as irrelevant to the progress of Scottish Football as are the mainstream press to proper news. I will be very pleased if my team wins the Scottish Cup, but I will be just pleased if Hibs win it. For you Celtic supporters who say you miss Oldco – get a life!

    Concentrate on Celtic if you really support them. I repeat – I do NOT miss Oldco – they are an irrelevance.
    Hail, hail!

  • paranoidandroid says:

    Maybe they’re just sad because their team died. But I think it’s time they gave up on the pathetic attempts at CPR and logged the time of death. “DO NOT RESUSCITATE”. “EVER”.

  • Jimbo102 says:

    I’m STILL celebrating the title win on Sunday hic!
    The MSM’s coverage and tone of our league win has been nothing short of disgusting.
    Now I’m not looking for sycophantic praise but where was any praise for a fantastic season both domestically and in Europe?? The fact we’re still on for the double?? Or Neil Lennon has proven he’s a top class young manager?? NO WITHIN MINUTES we had half our team being sold off (even the manager), derogatory comments on the number of points we dropped and the thing that made my skin crawl sevco not being there.
    The sad thing is I cannot see them changing reporting anytime soon.
    Williebhoy is right, maybe I’d be better off not buying newspapers or listening to phone ins as on 95% of the time I am at odds withe the reporting.
    Leaving on a positive note I thought big sammy’s goal on Sunday was one of the best I’ve seen at parkhead since Henrik chipped Kloss.
    Hail hail

  • Sweeney Hughes says:

    And the herald article on news now today.

    The huns were ‘relegated’ to the Scottish fourth Div.

    Can you scream a bear faced lie till your blue in the face?
    I read and hear people talking about the smsm not challenging sevco about their lies, it would be fkn hard since they’re the feckers telling them, and they stopped even TRYING to disguise it a long time ago.

  • Guillermo says:

    Oldco spent money they didn’t have as a wrecking ball to Scottish football. The competition from the ‘new firm’ of Aberdeen and Dundee Utd was swept aside and even Celtic struggled to make a dent in Oldco’s superiority (any semblance of a challenge was swatted by ‘honest’ mistakes from officials during games and out and out cheating from administrators running the game). The reaction from the lickspittles in the media to these tainted titles? They lapped it up.
    What’s sticking in their craw is the fact that Celtic are going from strength to strength and hosting Europe’s elite while the liquidator (not the administrator, which I have heard on about a dozen occasions this week) is picking over the bones of their dead club.
    As they keep saying, so ironically, MOVE ON!

  • cass says:

    I JUST HOPE I LIVE LONG ENOUGH TO SEE CELTIC WIN 10,14,20 IN A ROW.[IT WILL HAPPEN]
    BUT ONE THING I DO KNOW ,EVEN IF I LIVE TO A 1000 I’LL NEVER SEE THE SCOTTISH MEDIA GIVE CELTIC A FAIR PRESS
    SO STOP BUYING THEIR RAG PAPERS AND LISTENING TO THEIR CRAP RADIO SHOWS.
    HAIL. HAIL.

  • Gery says:

    All part, too, of a general talking down of Scottish football – you would think a ‘national’ broadcaster would want to celebrate a team capable of staying in the Champions League till the same stage as the champions – and longer than most of the qualifiers from – the richest league in the world.

    Gerry Hassan’s piece on ‘The fall of BBC’s Sportscene – and why it matters’ http://www.gerryhassan.com/blog/the-fall-of-bbcs-sportscene-and-why-it-matters/ is worth a read on that.

  • OZ CELT aka Davie bhoy says:

    Every time I see these kind of articles in MSM from BBC or whoever I take some comfort in knowing its coming from a hurting hun filled with jealousy,let them TRY and distract from our achievements,that’s all they’ve got sad sad people

  • OZ CELT aka Davie bhoy says:

    Distract-detract

  • Bill hendry says:

    To all the Faithful,

    I write from Newport Rhode Island. For some reasons these posts take me back to 1957 when as a seven your old bhoy I remember my aunt telling me ” if you live to be one hundred you will never have such fun as the day the Glasgow Celtic beat the Rangers 7 to 1!

    I am certain BBC lost the film of the game!

    So 56 years later I tell my grand kids ” the only one I ever liked was Niven he was the guy who let in seven!

    God bless the Glasgw Celtic then,now and for always!

    Bill Hendry aged 63

  • rik says:

    The only problem with the msm spouting their pish is that gullible fans who read/listen to these reports take it as said. I know Celtic fans who constantly bemoan the fact that newhuns are not in the league.

    It’s not our fault that the Huns got themselves killed and had to start afresh. If i had my way their punishments would have been more severe when you consider the potential damage they have caused the league.

  • greenmcgeek says:

    I saw that “How credible is Celtic’s title win?” tweet, but it was quickly removed. It does go to show you how sore they must feel, I mean what’s not credible about spending within your means, paying your bills and your taxes on time and generally keeping to the rules. Otherwise is someone at the BBC suggesting that there was some cheating going on here?

    I must admit my radio station of choice is radio scotland, I just can’t stand the ads on commercial channels, oh and I can’t listen to Hugh Keevins. I find myself swtiching over to 6 music now at 6 pm, rather than turning up the sound to listen to their sevco coverage.

    If only there were someway to complain? – http://www.bbc.co.uk/complaints/

  • sensiblecelt says:

    Put it this way: Just ask yourselves this – “Would we still have romped the league even if that same Govan outfit which ran away with the diddy league had been up against us in the SPL?”

    I rest my case.

  • Martybhoy says:

    How credible was the Huns years of cheating?

  • Thomas Haverstock says:

    The bbc has and will alway be ant Celtic they will never give us the time off day never Hail Hail Glasgow Celtic

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