With his lack in understanding of digital times and social media Tom English thought that his 11.34pm Saturday night tweet would go un-noticed. It didn’t.
To be fair however it wasn’t the biggest Twitter mistake that the chief sports writer at BBC Scotland made over the weekend.
As Own Goals go even English will be hard pushed to surpass his crass tweet about Celtic on Friday afternoon. Any hopes he harboured of getting sent on an Ashes tour down under went up in smoke.
Drawing inspiration from his buddy Ewan Murray of the Guardian he decided to expose all his anger and contempt for Celtic.
Murray has the advertisers with the Guardian to contend with- English has editorial standards as he discovered with the backlash on his latest Tweet critical of Celtic.
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
The egg-chaser from Limerick craves social media attention but quickly on Friday he’d have realised that this time he had gone way over a boundary. He isn’t smart enough to be subtle, instead he went all in with- unleashing a backlash that reached Australia where the Warne family have been offered a state funeral.
Friday night was probably sleepless for English, Saturday passed in slow motion before he reached again for that Twitter account. With no apology offered as he selected DELETE more attention has been drawn as he doubles down on a tweet that was brilliantly reflected his train of thought.
Terrible tweet about the death of a family man and trying to take the p#ss out of Celtic football club well Tom the soup taker hopefully you will get your books from the bbc
— John Macgregor jockey bhoy (@JockeyBhoy) March 6, 2022
You just know Tom English has been up to the wee small hours reporting multiple Timmy accounts.
— ? Johnny_Scotland ? (@Johnny_Saltire) March 6, 2022
Two faced Tom. pic.twitter.com/VVTntYTl0r
— Mark ?? ?? ??????? ?? ?? (@CELTIC2019) March 6, 2022
Too fucking right. Your tweet was unprofessional. Had you bothered your arse to look at the detail it was clear that Celtic had a connection with Shane Warne through Dafabet, hence the pic used. Typical Clickbait Tom.
— Stuperman (@StuCam82) March 6, 2022
No apology? You’re a coward Tom
— Martin Armstrong (@MartinA62893554) March 6, 2022
You should be sacked for that bitter depraved tweet. @BBCNews @CQN
— IntheHeatofLisbon (@malahidebhoy) March 6, 2022
Shane Warne wasn’t a parasite of the state, plenty of others you can tug your forelock to
— Blair Aquinas (@BillingsgateBob) March 6, 2022
Yes, Alan.
— Brian McNally (@McNallyMirror) March 6, 2022
You despise @CelticFC
It’s clear for all to see.
You’re irrelevant ????
Story of the day at best…— ? Shauny ©? (@ShaunyCeltic) March 6, 2022
You’re a lickspittle of a man. Removing it because you were told rather than because you realised your collosal balls up. You really need to take a look in the mirror.
— Jim McGuigan (@BingoKeane) March 6, 2022
@BBCSportsound will you be terminating Tom English’ emoluments on the back of that disgraceful tweet about Shane Warne? @CelticFCSLO did we challenge them on this?
— King Billy Zelenskyy ?? (@kyogoagogo88) March 6, 2022
Imagine being called out by Sevcosound- not a hint of apology from rabid Celtic-hater @TEnglishSport. Yet Uncle Tom was happy to appear in a Scottish football programme that once had DUP’s Gregory Campbell opining on sectarianism ? pic.twitter.com/D5lPi3c3rP
— Slimshady (@Slimshady1961) March 6, 2022
I formally complained on this as it was an appalling tweet. Any decent individual would now issue an apology and retraction. For Tom English, we pay your wages and we expect you to be neutral and report the facts, not carry unwarranted bias.
— Schrodinger’s Cat (@trebletrebleye1) March 6, 2022
This tweet is crass
— John Egan #GetVaccinated #SaveLives #ProtectTheNHS (@JEgan1981) March 6, 2022
140 years of history ended a fact of corporate law we will never ever let them forget.
English is a complete illiterate fool
Tom English is a typical “West Brit” type, with his head up his masters arse ! The bullied wanting crumbs from the masters table. Yes, a begrudging West Brit !
Tom English i honestly hope 1 day you bump into the wrong guy and he rages dolls you everywhere Tom keep it ur time will come ya dirty rat away and slag your dead club at liebrox ya midding coward fuckpig hope whoever see you diznae miss ya zombie loving cheating bastard Tom Scum English wanker
Mans just bitter n twisted and a coward to boot consistently fails to call out the snash that comes out of mordor on a regular basis and as for paying his wages not me never had a licence didn’t nobody asked me if i wanted it