After another delve in Kenny Macintyre’s autograph book BBC Scotland introduced a new face to their roster of pundits with Scott Arfield on duty for Fraserburgh’s visit to Ibrox in the Scottish Cup.
The clip below sums up the level of coverage provided with some top banter between the Bolton reserve and one of his former team-mates.
With Steven Thompson, Billy Dodds, Neil McCann, Cammy Bell and Steven Naismith sharing the pundit slots on Sportscene and Sportsound the sympathetic to Ibrox viewpoint is already over represented by the state broadcaster.
Premier Sports has first call on Scottish Cup ties, when they passed up on the visit of Fraserburgh the BBC were all over it as they gave their staff a trip along the road to Ibrox to share the biggest formality from the Fourth Round draw.
‘Do you miss me?’ ?#BBCFootball #ScottishCup pic.twitter.com/90zFyCLIYS
— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) January 19, 2025
Cyriel Dessers scored a hat-trick in today’s match which will be rapidly added to his showreel as efforts are stepped up to get the striker off the pay-roll.
New signing Rafael Fernandez wasn’t involved and obviously has been left out of the squad registered with UEFA for the Europa League ties against Manchester United and USG.
After a year out of football with Lille next Sunday away to Dundee United seems like an unlikely debut for the 22-year-old from Portugal with less than 20 senior matches on his CV.
Is Bonner our only soup taker there…
I never see him on Sportscene any time !
Lol Scott Arfield another one beghing for a coin at the BBC,they might as well enjoy and take it while they can,as change is coming there.
The license fee is getting scrapped,and cost cutting measures are heading over there,so all those tickly handshakes that take place to get the prodies in the door won’t stop the new punters from taking over and cutting those costs.
BYE,BYE.
Southampton in with a bid for Barron,apparently £12 million sevco holding out for £15 million.
Could have been worse ..he could have pulled out the guitar and sang for the Ibrox faithful and the watching nation .
BBC Sport Scotland will have more pundits than viewers before too long? :).
That’s a good one Bob. A cracker!