Have BBC Scotland put Tom English on mute?

Despite his grand title as Chief Sport Writer at BBC Scotland, Tom English hasn’t shared a single thought on this week’s European results for Scottish football clubs.

It seems that egg-chasing duties at the World Cup in France have totally occupied his thoughts- or he has been told to keep a lid on his glee at any misfortune for Celtic.

Since Celtic won 1-0 at Ibrox on September 3 there has been soccer silence from English which might be an attempt by BBC Scotland to regain access to Celtic.

Back in July the star man at the state broadcaster couldn’t hold back as Ange Postecoglou moved to Spurs, a job that Brendan Rodgers was apparently raging at missing out on.

Nothing was said or done at the time but as Celtic started their media conferences there was no invite sent out to BBC Scotland. Sky Sports, STV, Radio Clyde and others were on the list but not the company that employs English as their Chief Sports Writer.

English has had a mammoth 13 days between Scotland getting hammered by South Africa and today’s match against Tongo but not a word has been published on his soccer thoughts.

Celtic’s defeat to Feyenoord would certainly have raised a few cheers as he feasted on BBC expenses out on France but he couldn’t even tweet about that result.

Twitter is strictly about rugby these days, perhaps a final warning has been issued since his crass comments about Shane Warren.

With a complete absence of football contacts outwith Gorgie Road English has never been near a decent football story, wisely he has tried to become a character in order to justify his BBC Scotland status.

Stirring things up on Twitter as worked a treat, he revels in the notoriety but with his bosses reigning him in he’ll just have to stick to egg chasing until he learns to control his emotions.