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Fan media will supersede your ilk- Tom English put in his place over Mowbray comment

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Tom English hasn’t taken kindly to fan-media being given access to Ange Postecoglou and Dom McKay.

On Friday fan media was given access to the new men shaping Celtic after a broadcast media conference. Crucially, as McKay highlighted, the new manager was speaking to supporter sites ahead of the daily and Sunday newspapers.

Social media and fan led sites such as this are posing a real threat to the traditional media channels. On Friday the BBC mentioned Postecoglou discussing transfer emergency but as fans had watched the conference live the e word hadn’t been used. BBC Scotland quickly backtracked.

The monopoly position that broadcasters like BBC Scotland had over news management is now under attack from all angles. Other broadcasters and news outlets are having to compete with the digital force but the licence fee gives the state broadcaster an extra blanket of security.

The editor of Celtic Star asked:

Hi Ange, welcome to Celtic, you will find you are at the best football club in the world pretty soon. Please be straight with us and honest with us at all times. We can take defeat but we don’t like being cheated.

And we don’t like being let down the way we have in the last 12 months certainly.

There are referees in this county who support one team, the compliance officer supports one team, penalties for one team, one team got three retrospective red cards last season.

Look at these things, don’t do what Tony Mowbray did and take these things on the chin. He did that and that was an open goal which was exploited and he didn’t last very long.

Mowbray came up badly short as Celtic manager but still suffered from some horrendous decisions, especially in Glasgow derbies.

In the opener at Ibrox Celtic were denied two very clear penalty claims with Craig Thomson apologising over one un-named incident. At Celtic Park in December Marco Antoine Fortune had a goal mysteriously disallowed while Kyle Lafferty only picked up a yellow card for a sickening lunge at Andreas Hinkel.

At Ibrox in February Scott Brown was red carded as Madjid Bougherra appeared to enjoy immunity from a serious of attacks on Robbie Fowler. Within a month Mowbray was on gardening leave after a demoralising 4-0 defeat away to St Mirren.

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