Celtic’s late win at Ross County on Wednesday night seems to have rocked right through BBC Scotland.
Their online team jumped the gun to celebrate a six point gap at the top of the table with Sportsound presenter Jane Lewis almost breaking down live on air. She seemed to spend most of Thursday trying to defend herself on Twitter.
Lurking in his own cubicle at the state broadcaster was Tom English, a man that rarely has a positive word to say about anything related to the sport that he has made a living from for the best part of 20 years.
Even readers of The Scotsman recognised the massive drop in standards when the egg-chaser from Limerick tried to slip into the pages previously graced by Kevin McCarra, Jonathan Northcroft and Graham Spiers. It was a colossal drop in standards quickly matched by circulation levels and advertising revenue.
Celtic’s late win at Ross County denied English and his BBC colleagues an early Championship party, on Sunday they’ll grudgingly have to cover a team in green and white lifting a trophy at Hampden.
Trolling on Twitter is about the extent of English’s talent, checking on every comment to see if there is any comments that he can bite back at.
Celtic fans know his motivation, after being left behind when the BBC selected their reporters for the Olympic Games and Lions Tour 2021 hasn’t been the greatest year in English’s bang average career with no sign of any upturn.
Celtic had eight international players in their starting line-up tonight. And another three on the bench. Against Ross County #barebones
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) December 15, 2021
You have one reliable striker at the club. He’s injured.
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) December 15, 2021
Tom stick to Rugby.
— Pablo P (@Rockstep6) December 15, 2021
Aye OK Tom, go get your soup pal ?
— Andy (@AMCG1888) December 15, 2021
It has really, really rattled you, hasn’t it..and to such an extent that you felt compelled to take to here about it????
— SomeWordsToJumpAtMe (@somewordstojump) December 15, 2021
Cheer up Tom, your grasp of our beautiful game seems very minimal. When a football team loses not only ALL our strikers to injury but add onto that our two best wingers then yes that’s the bare bones.
— GandolfG (@gindog20) December 15, 2021
— Si (@Silo0o_) December 15, 2021
Just going against the grain of the ‘Poor Celtic have no players’ theory, PJ.’
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) December 15, 2021
Aye ok Tom, of all the things that happened in that game that’s what you’ve got to say pic.twitter.com/8UXwS51ZLm
— Vertigo29 (@Vertigou2K) December 15, 2021
Poor Tom English ..CELTIC were playing AWAY from home , were down to 10 men, The referee making “honest mistakes” and CELTIC score a dramatic late winner. And I use this term very very loosely a “sports journalist Tommy English” makes absolutely no mention of this
I wonder if Tom was irked that CELTIC WON
Why anyone takes notice of this blethering idiot is beyond me. Blah,blah,blah,
Your a very very small man Tom English very small indeed.
Your mum and dad must be very ashamed to see the way you’ve sold your soul to Orange BBC Lodge.
Basically you have zero credibility and worse of all you have a gub the size of the Shannon.
Jane Lewis is just another hurting Hun when she’s not mentoring Tom English.
The man is a fuckin retard why waste any time on him, he knows fuck all about fuck all.HH
Utter bawbag
On twitter I’ve long since blocked English and all their sycophants not interested in anything the English run BBC Scotland have to say on any subject.
Time for direct complaints to BBC Scotland (and BBC Headquarters) over their lack of impartiality.
Join the queue. They never reply to them.
The best response is to cancel your Tv licence and tell them to fluck off.
Advise them that if they attempt to contact you through any medium, post, telephone,text,email personal visit that you will sue them for harassment. Once you’ve given them that notice, by law they can’t attempt to contact you.
Check it out on line, they can do feck all.
Why do we have so many injuries? Hibs will be aggressive tomorrow and we have more injured players than we have subs.