Tom English has denied accusing Celtic fans of assaulting Hearts players.
Saturday, May 16 was one of the saddest days in the sad life of the Chief Sports Writer at BBC Scotland.
Even sadder than when he found out that he wouldn’t be part of the BBC jolly to the World Cup Finals in the USA.
Kenny Macintyre, Alasdair Lamont, Liam McLeod and Neil McCann but not the flowery wordsmith from Limerick.
English will be stuck in a studio in Glasgow providing top banter with Steven Thompson rather than enjoying the hot dogs and sticky buns of Boston and Miami.
For the best part of six months English and the lads at BBC Scotland were on board for a Hearts title win.
Ryan Stevenson became part of the furniture as he reassured everyone how the SPFL title was heading for Tynecastle.
Ahead of the Motherwell v Hearts match on May 9 the entire BBC studio was singing along to the H E A R T S song as they showed their true colours.
A week later BBC Scotland Sport resembled a wake.
The dream was dead, Celtic had made it 5-in-a-row with a squad that had been slaughtered all season.
There was one comfort blanket to draw on.
Stevenson and Andy Halliday instantly deflected to the assaults carried out on Hearts players by Celtic fans.
SKY SPORTS, BBC, TOM ENGLISH AND THE FACTS ON HEARTS ASSAULTS
There was zero evidence from the multitude of cameras covering the match for Sky Sports and BBC Scotland.
Why let FACTS! get in the way when you can criticise the Celtic support.
English sat back and nodded along with the claims by his colleagues, eagerly backed up by Kenny Macintyre.
He knew that no Hearts player had been assaulted. He knows where his bread is buttered, around BBC Scotland he is affectionately known as House Paddy.
Just over three weeks after losing the SPFL title Cammy Devlin muttered the unfortunate truth.
No Hearts players had been hurt.
Celtic fans shouldn’t have been on the pitch. Even deep into the seventh minute of stoppage time there was still a few seconds to play following Callum Osmand’s goal.
It was wrong to be on the pitch. Around 300 fans were on the pitch for less than three minutes.
English and his colleagues could have feasted on that. That provided plenty of scope to criticise Celtic and Celtic fans.
But it wasn’t enough.
English and his media buddies went on about the missing minutes and the assaults on players.
Neither of these issues are factual. Much like Craig Whyte’s billionaire status.
English could have ignored yesterday’s question from NRK Bhoy but he isn’t smart enough to do that.
He is addicted to X/Twitter to give him a feeling of relevance. His crass comments following the death of Shane Warne forced his employers to apologise for their employee.
Celtic’s 25/26 title win was a very painful experience for the Sports Desk at BBC Scotland. One that their so-called Chief Sports Writer will never recover from. Even the text replies from Anne Budge have dried up for English.
“Hi Craig (Whyte)
Tom English had said he’ll have a pop at Paul Murray in his column tomorrow (sun).
Scotsman used his comments on the back page with our responses ie. Irrelevant and of no consequence.
Regards,
Gordon Hay (Rangers PR)” pic.twitter.com/SpTIKMQRet— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) November 6, 2025
Still waiting to hear that Mcinnes has been charged for his disgraceful behavior over that whole week including clapping the Celtic penalty ..he caused the reaction of the fans that goaded Hearts players
Allan ‘eah’ Preston screaming into his mic that Lawrence Shankland was being attacked by Celtic fans on the far side of the pitch ! Lies ! Never happened but Preston did not get asked to clarify his accusations at the time from anyone at the BBC Scottish version of radio . This kicked all of the lies and conjecture off . It turned into a lying free for all by all of the Beeb’s hand picked employees and guest mouthpieces. Fill yer boots time for false and fake news …. alternative facts from the national broadcaster using our money to do so … unchallenged!
English was as much a part of the Moral Panic brigade as any of the rest of the liars; Nevin, Preston, Stevenson, Halliday et al.
As I’ve said before, he is all in now, having sold his soul a long time ago.
We all know the media the establishment etc are anti Celtic fc we all know this ,it’s not a surprise, but the biggest problem is Desmond and his cabal they were a whisker away from appointing Rabbi tel aviv Keane ,we have the green brigade and countless celtic supporters groups saved the club from disaster. Stop giving them your money
Is that the same goading Celtic players are subject to at Tyncastle on the touchline.
Fckn junkie tramps.
Lol,just how will the tramps at the BBC and other outlets deal with these home truths that Devlin has spoken.
How do they manage now to sit in front of cameras now knowing they LIED through their teeth.
They will do a big Donald and still be in denial of Devlin’s statement,probably continue to GASLIGHT people.
Police Scotland have said they “NEVER” found any evidence of assault i agree but i did see criminal damage..I wonder if Police Scotland will find any criminal damage ie :hearts player KENT deliberately and willfully stamping on someone else’s property “mobile phone”
When most if not all the peepil in the media who watched the ball hitting a players hand at head height, completely refusing to even acknowledge the fact that it hit said hand ,is it a stretch to believe they would fabricate assaults on the field .
In both cases .They saw what THEY they wanted to see .
Simple as that
Lol,let’s imagine it’s the situation here,Scotland or England in the final of the World Cup it’s poised at 2-2 the last minute of 7 minutes injury time and the opposition player does what Nicholson done against our player.
So what do you think the Scottish ARSEHOLES in the press and punters up here as well as those down south would do,,would they be screaming the same injustices,for Scotland or England getting the penalty.
I don’t think so.
The exponential growth of Internet Bampots and citizen journalism,
is mirrored by the increasing irrelevance of English and the BBC.
How many people trust English or the BBC: how many choose not to pay the TV Licence Tax?
A reckoning is long overdue for most of these obsolete, so-called, SMSM football ‘journalists’.