Tom English led the old media attack last weekend as Celtic opened the door for their own supporters to ask questions of Ange Postecoglou and Dom McKay.
After generations of a cosy monopoly of manipulating the news these aren’t happy days for English and his chums. The Netflix generation aren’t prepared to buy a licence for ‘council telly’ when their funds can be put to greater use, the damage that English inflicted on Scotland and Sunday is there to see in daily circulation figures that wouldn’t get close to filling Tynecastle or Easter Road.
English does like to tackle the issues that suits him and his employer. A bash at Celtic fans, throw in paranoia and conspiracy and he gets away with the same old trash that he has been churning out for 20 years. BBC Scotland love it on their airwaves and digital but keep English well away from the cameras.
Guys like Tom English were quick to ridicule some Celtic fan for his conspiracy-themed question at a fan media conference. Very quiet on the same nonsense from a vice-chairman, who is out for revenge against those that took issue with said club cheating the taxpayer & the sport pic.twitter.com/im0zUJYJ4k
— Dan Tausney (@dantausney) July 4, 2021
‘Tony Mowbray…Tony Mowbray…Hang on, I’m trying to remember…’ pic.twitter.com/tazZhBD4nP
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 26, 2021
If he fancied it the fearless BBC man could take on Tom Bennett, a director at Ibrox with views more extreme than the wildest excesses of Ibrox fan media. He is on a par with the infamous author of ‘the Rangers haters list’ who earned a blazer for 48 hours before surrendering to his past extremes.
There are old scores to be settled claims Bennett- not half and publication of the Five Way Agreement of 2012 and the correspondence involving UEFA licences a year earlier are badly needed if Scottish football is ever to move on.
It is almost six years since BBC Scotland fell out with the club from Ibrox. Despite the constant employment of Neil McCann, Billy Dodds, Alex Rae, Kris Boyd, Mark Hateley, Derek Ferguson, Richard Foster and many more the two parties still claim to be in dispute.