At the start of November Tom English was all over Celtic’s 3-0 defeat from Midtjylland.
Almost as if he had been waiting on it.
Four days earlier English had suffered through Celtic’s 3-1 victory in the League Cup semi-final at Hampden.
It broke his heart to see Martin O’Neill leading Celtic to success over his beloved Tribute Act.
O’Neill brought back horrible memories for English, now laughingly titled the Chief Sports Writer with BBC Scotland.
Thirty plus years without getting a sniff of an exclusive story.
ENGLISH- THE SERIAL LOSER
Driving circulation of Scotland on Sunday then The Scotsman off a cliff.
Hardly surprising when the Edinburgh publisher turned to English to succeed Kevin McCarra, Jonathan Northcroft and Graham Spiers.
Three journalists of varying talent. Capable writers, with contacts and an insight into football.
English is a third rate messenger. Incapable of independent thought. His cheerleading of Craig Whyte was epic, the content that will define him.
Things change .
Rohl 1 win in 5 in Europe
Tunnel vision is the new knocked oota Europe is the nearest he’ll get tae any criticism https://t.co/5Za2o13qcy
— Terry O’Neill (@terryoneill67) January 29, 2026
NOTE: 1 win in 6.
Tom English goes out of his way to denigrate his fellow Irishmen in order to ingratiate himself to his anti-Celtic readers.
He had always had a mean streak in his Rugby “journalism” here and was run out of Ireland for it, and has been resentful ever since.Hell hath no fury…
— Dermot Houston (@DeRebCelts) January 30, 2026
English waded in after the defeat in Midtjylland.
He barely murmured a word following the win away to Feyenoord, or the draw in Bologna.
O’NEILL V ROHL
Imagine the reaction if Danny unbeaten Rohl had achieved those results?
Typically BBC Scotland had to console themselves on Thursday night.
Rohl has sensibly avoided additional fixtures while Celtic have created extra problems by qualifying.
If English, known affectionately as House Paddy among his BBC colleagues is reading this here are some FACTS!
Rohl was in charge for six Europa League matches. Winning 1, Drawing 1 and Losing 4.
Without Scottish match officials unbeaten Dan has a record similar to Wilfried Nancy.
BBC Scotland is entirely funded by BBC licence payers. Fortunately it seems that their World Cup coverage will mainly come from Glasgow. English has never covered a soccer World Cup.
I listened to the post match coverage on Radio Scotland. An absolutely unbelievable listen. I had to keep checking the results to remind myself who had won and lost.
— J-Mac ?? (@johnjmac63) January 30, 2026

I’ll bet Dannybhoy will be extremely, pleasantly surprised at the good will coming from the brethren…..
HH
Uncle Tom the souper.
I’m still waiting on the 3 week intensive scrutiny that Trusty’s wee tap to Butland set in motion.
I mean, when virtually every single person who knows anything about the game categorically denounces the red, surely this is worthy of the same attention that Butland’s beheading got?
Surely those same media types see this is bad for the game up here and should be hollering for refs heads as they did then?
He’s just a horrible c*nt really isn’t he
Tom Britain
Three domestic cups and a good run in the Champions League seems a pipe dream never mind a tall order for any Scottish Club, even Scotland’s most successful.
Easier to put down on paper than to go and achieve – although I think one Scottish club did it, as I remember!
THE ULTIMATE ENGLISH B*ASTARD !!!
According to the good old Beeb, Europe’s just a sideshow:
Rangers’ Euro distraction fades as mammoth month comes into focus
Memory must be playing tricks, as a few years ago, when they sklaffed their way to a Final and we usually played poorly and went out pathetically early, the media just couldn’t get enough.
House Paddy of the BBC Scottish version was at pains to inform the station’s radio billions that after theRangers were pumped by Porto 3–1 that they ‘ held their own ‘ as it could quite easily have been even a 5 or 6 or 7 -1 battering from the Portugal team ! Let’s analyse that for a minute ? You score first after 6 minutes ..lose 3-1 …going on 7-1 but held your own during the entire match ? And there is a school of thought that the BBC Scottish version is biased towards one clumpany in wee Scotland as a priority ? There’s the proof .As the Rock star said circa 1977 …’ and it’s amazing ! ‘
Has anybody seen the latest piece from that silly old b*****d spew heevins holy shit thats somethin else. All of a sudden nobody wants to be in europa league anyway, its just an irrelevance etc but normally hes creaming his pish stained knickers when sevco are still in it.
Also saying rangers will win league with plenty to spare cos hearts can’t even beat woeful celtic. Rangers turning down big bids for players even tho fenerbache have came put an rubbished that idea never mind as long as it suits ur narrative hugh dont let the truth get in the way.
Sounds like something written by Chris Jack ffs not a supposed journalist. Of all the times I hope this weird little cretin gets proved wrong, and he almost always is, I hope its this time and it puts the final nail in his coffin of us having to hear anymore of the absolute shite he peddles as truths
F*uck Sake Mick – ‘Rangers’ that you speak of are as dead as everyone in Carmony Cemetery…
At least Keevins is near a coffin – Probably gonna stink out Dalnotter where I’ve got folks…
Resting NOT in piece but ROT !
Tom English should instead use seer stones to gain revelations. Craig Whyte has a pair but they’re made of brass.
There is a sports writer from the BBC,
Who often barkes up the wrong tree;
When put to the test,
The tax dodging club were laid to rest,
Wright even avoided paying a TV licence fee.
Conspiracy Theory…….now that we all know that MN is a slippery, snidey wee bam, hiring in the polis to do his dirty work, going out if his way to avoid accountability to fans and so on.
Could it be possible that maybe he has been playing the long game behind the scenes all along even prior to PL leaving?
I’m not protecting PL, but it wouldn’t surprise me if the wee kent was undermining at every cut & turn with his own agenda.
He certainly shown the fans he’s sneaky and ambitious enough to throw anyone to the dogs to get where he wants to go, and anyone else with a semblance of self awareness would’ve fell on his sword already knowing the tidal wave of hate there is for him.
As long as he has DD’s ear, MN is gonna act with impunity and he shown already he ain’t giving one single feck what the fans think, takes a real neck of brass to behave like this.
I’m beginning to think that PL deffo had his limitations but he also loved the club….I’m not so sure MN has any love for for Celtic, just love for what Celtic gives him, money, power and influence.
Apologies clach my bad on that one f*** knows what happened there