BBC Scotland trailing their grubby Micky Beale deal
BBC Scotland appear to have struck a Micky Beale deal with their former foes at Ibrox.
After seven years of a bizarre stand-off between the two parties a peace deal was struck at the start of this season with the state broadcaster back on the roster for media conferences at Ibrox and Murray Park.
Beale has provided plenty of content, sharing what he finks about anything and everything, reminding broadcasters at every opportunity of what a real football geezer he is with an in-depth knowledge of every player and manager.
Very, very rarely will a manager go into depth about a player his club is linked with but not Beale. He can rattle off the career highlights of Tom Davies, Todd Cantwell, Morgan Whittaker or Nicolas Raskin with very little prompting.
Beale does have another speciality- Celtic. He knows every detail about every contract, every transfer, the club accounts and the budget available to Ange Postecoglou.
Outside of his standard media duties before and after matches, yesterday BBC Scotland started to trail exerts from a Beal interview, naturally Celtic and their manager were the main topic of interest.
On their website BBC Scotland announced:
In an exclusive BBC Scotland interview, Rangers manager Michael Beale explains why he described Celtic counterpart Ange Postecoglou as “a lucky man”.
The full Beale interview will appear across the BBC in February
??’In the last 12 months he’s spent more than what Steven Gerrard spent in three and a half years’ ?
Michael Beale on what motivated his ‘lucky man’ comment about Ange Postecoglou ??
Hear more from Beale on Football Focus in the coming weeks.#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/c3PbePGHWx
— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) January 21, 2023
At some point in the last week the state broadcaster has been given access to Beale with the content to be broadcast next month!
What is so precious that it can’t be broadcast in the coming week when there are no fixtures until Saturday?
By the time February comes around the Ibrox landscape could be much changed. Players could be signed, others could leave.
A year ago Amad Diallo and Aaron Ramsey were still elsewhere, by the time February 2 came along they were watching Celtic dominate in a Glasgow derby. Things were never quite the same for Giovanni van Bronckhorst.
BBC aren’t strangers to striking strange deals for access, the big Beale exclusive looks like just another example of attempts to manipulate the news agenda- social media will dictate no matter what BBC Scotland traded off for their latest grubby deal.
