Michael Stewart has revealed that BBC Scotland kept their pundits in the dark about Gregory Campbell’s appearance on Sportsound yesterday.
Richard Gordon was his usual professional self as he introduced the show with Pat Bonner in the studio, Michael Stewart and Brian McLaughlin in Edinburgh and Tom English taking a break from watching egg chasing to join the show.
Later in the show they would be taking a look at Kilmarnock’s 1965 Scottish League success and be joined by Paul Hegarty, Maurice Malpas, Willie Miller and Eric Black to discuss the day in 1984 when Dundee United and Aberdeen played in European semi-finals.
One special feature however wasn’t announced in advance, a decision made by the production team that suspended Stewart earlier this year for discussing the role of Ibrox media chief James Traynor.
I didn’t know about it till we went on air and to answer your question directly I’m not in favour of de-platforming people in general but I don’t see why the MP was on the show, so I don’t agree with it.
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) April 25, 2020
I don’t think that’s fair. So many things have happened since “I came back” we no longer have games to comment on so there’s only one main issue now and I have a firm view on it also I publicly spoke about long before any clubs did. It’s healthy to not agree all the time.
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) April 25, 2020
Campbell gave non-answers to a few questions from Gordon with that section of the show cut from the podcast released later in the day.
The Westminster MP had nothing to add to the debate about Scottish football, Stewart and English dismissed his comments when Gordon tried to generate some follow up.
