Tom English goes on mute over Ibrox club criticism

From Monday football fans will be back in football stadiums, there will be more than 50,000 inside Celtic Park for the visit of Hibs with the turnstiles busy at Pittodrie and Tynecastle the following night. 

Ten SPFL clubs have been vindicated for their foresight and putting supporters first- two qualities that would never be attributed to the chief sports writer of BBC Scotland. 

When Hamish, Ross, Stewarty and Campbell gather at Murrayfield next month Tom English will be able to marvel at the wonderful atmosphere as the international egg-chasing gets underway. 

Football/rugby/racing fans back. Excellent. The decision, driven by Premiership clubs, to bring forward their winter break was entirely the right one. Most people, but not all people, recognised this at the time

— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) January 11, 2022

Everybody knows that

— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) January 11, 2022

Lads, grow up

— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) January 11, 2022

Two Scottish clubs wanted matches to continue in front of crowds of 500, one from Dingwall and the other from Ibrox, strangely English can’t bring himself to mention them by name. 

No explanation has been given by either club for voting to play in front of 500 fans, questions certainly haven’t been asked by English and his colleagues at the state broadcaster. 

On Friday night BBC Scotland will show the Championship match between Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock inside a near deserted Firhill. The match could be played in front of thousands of fans next week but it seems that BBC scheduling is more important than the needs of the national sport. 

The really interesting thing to take from this email, is the collaboration in fabricating a narrative to get a point across.
It’s all staged.

“Tom English has said he’ll have a pop at Paul Murray… Scotsman used his comments on the back page with our responses ie. irrelevant.” pic.twitter.com/UQz9KDfDZQ

— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) August 20, 2019