DELETE! Crass Tom English oversteps the mark again
Tom English has again had to turn to the DELETE button as he jumped the gun to criticise Hibs owner Ron Gordon.
Last month the Chief Sports Reporter for BBC Scotland was forced to delete a tweet criticising Celtic’s ‘crass’ reaction in expressing their condolences following the death of Shane Warne.
BBC decided to apologise directly to Celtic after some fans went through the complaints procedure.
Ron Gordon wants Hibs to be the Atletico Madrid of Scotland. He’s good at delivering headlines in fairness to him. Not so good at developing the football club. Hibs are flailing on his watch
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 19, 2022
I deleted that last tweet about Hibs. The video interview gives context that I missed in the written word. Still, some alarming things said by RG
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 20, 2022
Always best to do proper research Tom ?
— Tony Cervi (@TonyCervi) April 20, 2022
The decision making of the owner
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 20, 2022
“Alarming” Bloody hell, what was so alarming or have you actually not listened to it and need to delete another tweet?
After the interview I’m assured and very confident that we’ve an owner who has the ambition, the drive and the strategy to deliver. pic.twitter.com/3kBVRaG5iS
— Scott Millar (@scottmillar1) April 20, 2022
Nothing alarming? Jeez
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 20, 2022
Your on the right track Mate. What’s this pairs agenda ?
— Paul McFarlane (@EuropeanCannon) April 20, 2022
When one is in a hole, put down the spade….
— SDG (@hibeepessimist) April 20, 2022
Things are not going well at Hibs. The team is poor. Seventh place. One league win this year. The owner is making costly mistakes. If that’s ‘kack’ then we’ll have to disagree
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) April 20, 2022
It seems that no lessons have been learned by the former Scotsman reporter. Despite having no commercial pressures it seems that English can’t help logging in to Twitter for some self-publicity.
Wading in head first to throw about opinions ahead of watching an interview is the action of an excitable adolescent on social media, not a flabby middle aged professional with more than 20 years experience in reporting on Scottish sport.
It seems that his affection for matters Gorgie-related inspired the latest ill-judged tweet. During the summer of 2020 English used his place on Sportsound to bring in Leslie Deans, Gregory Campbell, Scot Gardiner and Ann Budge to bang the drum from Hearts.
That shit did not even meet basic standards of decency or humanity. You deserve everything you get you absolute clown. You saw a chance to have a dig at Celtic and not even the idea of clambering over a corpse was going to restrain you.
— TheCelticBlog (@CelticBlog2018) March 6, 2022