Crass Tom English body-swerves the Dens Park Hate Festival

Tom English can quickly be mobilised into a crass tweet about Celtic expressing their condolences to the family of Shane Warne but a Hate Festival at Dundee is out of range for the BBC Scotland reporter. 

On Friday the BBC revealed that they had had to apologise to Celtic over the crass tweet from their chief sports writer in Scotland. English announced that he had to delete the tweet but offered no apology. 

At Dundee yesterday listeners to Radio Scotland were forced to listen through a backdrop of anti-Catholic and anti-Irish songs from 4,000 visiting supporters. No apology was offered by the commentary team with no comment on the BBC Scotland website. 

With English part of the massive BBC Scotland party in Rome for the egg-chasing Wooden Spoon decider he missed out on live commentary from his colleague at Dens Park. A phone call to one of his colleagues or contacts at the match would have confirmed the backdrop to the fixture.

His replies to the tweets confirm his utter obsession with Twitter, a medium that he seems unable to resist even after his employer had to step in to remind him of editorial standards and apologise for what they described as a lapse. 

On Saturday Scotland conclude their Six Nations rugby campaign with a very likely defeat away to Ireland in Dublin, once again the state broadcaster will provide saturation coverage for an event that very few people have more than a passing interest in.