Football - International Challenge Match , Scotland v Canada , Easter Road , 15/10/02 Scotland's Steven Thompson Mandatory Credit:Action Images / Lee Smith
BBC Scotland have announced that there will be no presenter or pundits on Sportscener tonight.
The announcement was made after Celtic’s 3-0 win away to Hearts in the Scottish Cup.
Since the BBC announced that Gary Lineker had been ditched from Match of the Day there has been a furious reaction to the decision.
Ian Wright and Alan Shearer were first to show their solidarity, late on Friday night it was announced that the commentators, almost all freelance announced that they wouldn’t be covering EPL matches.
The snowball effect continued this morning with the PFA announcing that there would be no post-match interviews.
Match of the Day will go ahead tonight with video action only, during the course of today Football Focus and Final Score were ditched as those inside the BBC react to show their backing for Lineker against the witch hunt inspired by the Daily Mail and Daily Express.
The BBC will only be able to bring limited sport programming this weekend and our schedules will be updated to reflect that.
Sportscene will run this evening on BBC One Scotland and BBC Scotland, with an amended format similar to current plans for Match of the Day.
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There has been tweets or comments from Steven Thompson, Neil McCann, Jamie McFadden or Richard Foster, the announcement above appears to have been taken by BBC Scotland management to protect their loyal band of pundits.
Not one of PONCE’S that are two bob pundits has spoken out in favour of Lineker,it’s a true saying when money comes in the window loyalty goes out the door.
Most of their pundits are so thick they think Solidarity is the name of an Italian midfielder. BBC Scotland has most likely prevented their involvement to protect them from public anger…
Everyone has the right to express an opinion.
It would be nice if someone in the limelight in Scotland tweeted about the disgraceful employment policy of BBC Scotland sport with its preferences for a certain clumpany and affiliates over everyone else ? That would trump Lineker’s tweet !
That picture, Ed. Is that Thomson scratching his ear for Scotland?
Just like back when 10 men won the league , god bless Johnny Doyle.