‘Tom is very selective’ ‘The guy is a fraud’ ‘English is an absolute banger’ Highly selective BBC man in new attack on Celtic

There’s nothing Tom English likes more than an easy, soft target, and if it gets some thumbs up and smiley emojis from his BBC Scotland colleagues so much the better.

Present him with anti-Irish hatred during a live BBC Scotland commentary from Dumbarton and yer man doesn’t want to know, roll the clock forward 24 hours and he’s delving into trivia to aim another attack at Celtic. Again. Such is life for the Chief News Writer with the state broadcaster, affectionately known as House Paddy by his colleagues for his box ticking credentials.

With a broad canvas of sport to coverage, including the growing excitement for the Six Nations among the egg-chasing fraternity, English decided that the Celtic team sheet was worthy of his attention, it seems like he had a prompt for the first time that Callum McGregor was missing from the Celtic side.

The abuse of Neil and Gallagher Lennon aren’t worth his attention but no Academy players in the Celtic Starting XI and it is a chance for English to get the online attention he craves, allowing him to think that he is relevant with some shock horror online atrocities to discuss if his paymasters ever allow him back onto the Off The Ball, Irish podcast.

Soon after English let off all his anger and distrust of Brendan Rodgers BBC Scotland dropped off the invite list for Celtic media conferences.

Unlike his crass tweeting following the tragic death of Shane Warne in this instance the man from Limerick was factually correct, none of the Starting XI picked by Rodgers had come through the ranks of the Celtic Academy.

This isn’t a recent issue, if English had paid any attention he’d have noted that other than the occasional sightings of Mikey Johnston, Stephen Welsh and Tony Ralston Celtic haven’t produced a first team starter from the Academy since Kieran Tierney emerged in 2015. It is a horrendous record and one that has never been addressed by current CEO Michael Nicholson.

As ever, clearly in compliance with his employer’s policies English applies double standards at every turn, in the Glasgow Derby of December 30 there wasn’t a single Scottish player in Philippe Clement’s starting side, John Souttar and Scott Wright came off the bench, both developed at other clubs with Murray Park now 24 years old.

The good news for BBC licence players is that the egg-chasing starts on February 3 with Scotland away to Wales, it should be a cracker, for those on company expenses.

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