After a weekend battering on Twitter, Tom English decided to fight back late on Sunday evening.
In the absence of any genuine contacts outside of Gorgie Road the chief Sports Writer at BBC Scotland spends most of his time of social media, generally looking for extremist comments to build his chin stroking opinion pieces around.
Rangers Tax Case produced some brilliant analysis of English and his career, rather than answer the core points the egg-chaser decided to pick up on a few minor inaccuracies.
Imagine a rugby fan with an Irish accent finds himself seeking work in the Scottish sports press.
Like many middle-class Irish, far from border areas, Tom English probably has genuine antipathy for Celtic fans’ musical focus on wars for independence and unity “in his country”.
— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) June 24, 2023
Tom English wants to write about rugby but lives in a football-obsessed place. Writing about football in Scotland has rules.
English will have little inner-conflict obeying rules that require that people with his accent put the boot into all things Celtic.
— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) June 24, 2023
The Charlotte Fakes leaks vented the hubris of many who profited in the cozy trade between Ibrox, PR firms, and journalists.
Tom English’s apparent willingness to write-on-command for Rangers’ PR men was one the most notable scoops of that time. Yet English’s career survived.
— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) June 24, 2023
English has long been a weather vane when forced into the dirty business of football.
The imminent failure of David Murray was most clearly signalled by Uncle Tom turning on him after years of faithful sucking up in return for access.
It wasn’t personal, just business.
— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) June 24, 2023
So with English’s anti-Celtic slant.
I don’t think there is much malice involved.
I don’t think he cares. If playing the role of Irishman slapping Celtic down is his price of entry, no reason not to from his perspective.
It’s what the local market demands- just now.— Rangers Tax-Case (@rangerstaxcase) June 24, 2023
English did start his journalistic career writing about Scottish football but soon landed his dream job writing about rugger for the Irish Times.
The name Pat Whelan and the Brazen Head pub in Limerick seems to have resulted in a career change, English returned to Scotland just as circulation of Scotland on Sunday was falling off a cliff.
Sensing the changing tides English worked his way onto Radio Scotland, an Irish voice hostile to all things Celtic was warmly welcomed and finally rewarded with the title of Chief Sports Writer
Following the BBC template that employs Kenny Macintyre, Steven Thompson, Jane Lewis, Richard Foster, Kenny Miller, Neil McCann and Alasdair Lamont, English is part of the furniture with the state broadcaster, affectionately known as House Paddy inside Pacific Quay.
As his Shane Warne incident last year proved his hostility to anything Celtic related is overwhelming. Most Internet Bampots would take the word of RTC ahead of English who seems completely incapable of letting things go.
No matter how much he backtracks on his attacks on Brendan Rodgers there is a lengthy podcast from On The Ball in Ireland where English puts the boot in with his combination of sarcasm and contempt- spoken into his BBC Scotland microphone.
That’s not what I said, though. Read it again
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 25, 2023
You’re very, very gullible if you believe that.
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 25, 2023
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
Has it? I hadn’t noticed. Great for our profession. Looking forward to next season already
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 25, 2023
Kevin, you understand that no matter somebody writes about certain clubs some folk will decide that their pot has been stirred. It’s just the way it is. I’ll crack on
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 25, 2023
I started writing about football in Scotland in 1992, long before I wrote a sentence about rugby. In two different spells I’ve written about Scottish football for a total of 23 years. Your thread is so wildly inaccurate it’s actually funny. Take care.
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 25, 2023
Thanks Stevie
— Tom English (@TEnglishSport) June 22, 2023
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A discredited man who’s never been able to counter this email.
A fraud. A chancer. Good luck to him though, he has made a decent career out of it. Probably not the career he had in mind, but we’ve all been there. pic.twitter.com/WIVu3fsxeW— tommy (@Tomtheleedstim) June 24, 2023
Keep this SPECKIE FUD out of Parkhead the BITTERNESS from him is FROTHING at the mouth.
100% mate. I’m all for free speech and objective criticism, but when the ‘fourth estate’ is full of currant buns, and writing anti-celtic material is the standard, its time to get them all Tae f#@k from Parkhead
Fkn pop up adds. I get a 1 sq inch gap to read article because of said ads
You omitted Rory Loy , Cammy Bell , Mr Amy Mac Donald , Mark Hately , ,and a whole host of other ex the Rangers employees and associates that the BBC sport in Scotland give our money to , to comment on its pet pastime project ! Why hasn’t anyone ever asked the bosses at the Beeb the reasons for this fact ? I’m talking about any neutral , from all the other football clubs throughout Scotland ? Fairness and equality should be a pre – requisite as compulsory at the BBC ,especially when there is public money intertwined in everything it does or produces ….It would be a simple question to the chiefs at the station , but I suspect the answer would be a long , complicated , convoluted one back !
Perfect for BBC Scotland this imbecile then – Even (their own) the Irish – That West Brit – (in the BBC Scotland) eyes demean them…
Thank goodness that I never listen to any of them – though it must be beautiful after Celtic beat Sevco and the day we won the treble must’ve been brutal pain for them all !
Can’t get too excited with this Tom English spat.
ALL the SMSM sports ‘journalists’ are pliable, obedient, de facto PR outlets.
Does anyone rate any of them?
The only difference with English is his nationality – that’s it.
But he’s just as compliant and wilfully ignorant as the others in the SMSM..
Everybody saw in 2011, 2012 – and since – that it was only a select few bloggers who
were consisently reporting the truth and who shamed the SMSM for their
incredible dereliction of duty around the biggest Scottish sports story – ever.
The email shown above just confirmed what most people believed.
“UNCLE TOM” DENIER OF TRUTH
TOUT RAT SCUM ENTITLED VILE PETITE MERDE.