Another Weekend Where Celtic Fans Marvel At The BBC’s “Editorial Standards”.

Over the weekend, as everyone knows, Tom English was forced, by Celtic, into a grovelling climb-down over a nasty little Tweet he had put up concerning our Shane Warne condolence message.

He claimed that the BBC told him to take it down because it did not meet their “editorial standards.”

That was welcome news, but somewhat surprising.

Because most Celtic fans didn’t even realise that the BBC still had “editorial standards” when it comes to Scotland and sport.

Those who tuned in for their abysmal show last night would have seen a sterling example of that. A studio with three ex-Ibrox players in it, poring over Celtic’s goals and suggesting that two of them should have been chopped off.

You look at a panel like that and you wonder, “Did nobody notice that it’s hopelessly slanted and even biased? Or did everyone notice, and nobody cared?”

Your next thought, when you listen to them, is “Ricky Foster is really keeping Michael Stewart off the telly? Who in the Hell authorised that?”

The same people, presumably, who think that the only qualification you need to talk about football in Scotland is that you once played in an Ibrox jersey.

There are so many of them on the payroll now that the corporation should simply relocate its sports department to that stadium. For a club and a company perpetually in the huff with each other, there sure are a lot of links between them.

I often wonder if the whole “public argument” isn’t a little bit of theatre to hide the fact that their PR teams are essentially singing off the same song sheet.

BBC Scotland is so nakedly pro Ibrox that it doesn’t even attempt to hide it anymore.

Barry Ferguson is the latest former footballer who played at the ground to find himself in a soft seat on the BBC Sport Scotland commentary team; it’s absurd to pretend that this organisation is capable of objectivity when so many of its employees lean one way.

It is high time Celtic fans boycotted that after-match farce they show.

It has become brazenly partisan, brazenly negative towards whatever we do.

That “panel” last night was an outrage.

When you think of Michael Stewart sitting home watching that you could understand it if he was a bit pissed off.

Because I was pissed off. I’m sure I wasn’t alone.