Tom English is holding out for the great American fakeover at Ibrox to be completed in a bid to end Celtic’s domination of Scottish football.
As defeat in Bilbao sank in across BBC Scotland their Chief Sports Writer is realising that the next six weekends could be spent covering Celtic winning their sixth treble in nine seasons, raising their trophy haul to 121.
Outside of the dubious Lockdown season the hoops won two doubles in the season that they never won trebles.
English and his colleagues at BBC Scotland have long grown weary of it all, grasping on to anything at all to break up the despair of trying to inject enthusiasm into Celtic successes
Discussing the misery of Thursday night in Bilbao the man known affectionately as House Paddy at BBC Scotland clung on to Keith Jackson’s WORLD EXCLUSIVE to offer hope over the dark weeks coming up:
Hibernation season is coming to an end, but how Rangers folk must wish they could curl up and go to sleep until such time as the new owners have poured through the door at Ibrox.
At least they have that to look forward to. A new beginning, they hope.
Before then they have the purgatory of five meaningless league games to endure.
They have another Celtic title win to try to block out and a probable Scottish Cup win by their greatest rivals to avoid. The chances are they’ll have to find a way of turning a deaf ear to their enemy’s treble yell.
Some of them might sooner go to prison for a short stretch than watch all of this unfold in the coming weeks.
The every thought of Rangers fans now will be about the takeover and what it brings. Nothing else matters. Nothing.
As English knows there is no takeover happening.
Keith Jackson broke the WORLD EXCLUSIVE two months ago, sitting on his chunky BBC Scotland salary their chief Sports Writer has uncovered nothing on the alleged takeover since then, well nothing that he could publish.
He has gone with the flow, predicting conclusion between April and June when the story broke, placing his faith in the Daily Record reporter famed for discovering billionaires on the streets of Motherwell.
Reporters on commercial outlets must produce content every day of the week, five or six days of every week.
With over 20 reporters and technicians enjoying an end of season jolly to Bilbao this week English has sat back, picking up on the updates in the Record and nodding along.
He hasn’t gone near the Daily Mail story on Wednesday night that the American’s are considering walking away.
Fluff about Ferguson, jam tomorrow and glory next season is all that English and the BBC can offer up, once in the last dozen years he called it correctly which is about par for his entire career in Scottish sport.
Oh the pain how we feel his pain,long may it continue.
House Paddy ! Sounds like a cheap weak wine you buy in a cheap , weak boozer ?
House Paddy – Is this English guy actually Irish !
The bitterness, jealousy and resentment are just oozing out now. The hun media are like social inadequates with their snotty noses up against the window, peering in at a party they would like to be able to attend but they can’t for reasons that are simple but can’t be said out loud in polite company…..