Celtic’s Youth Cup Final Win Was Thrilling … Except BBC Scotland’s Biased Commentary.

Last night’s youth cup final was stunning. Absolutely stunning.

One of the best 120 minutes of football I’ve watched in a while.

It had everything. Terrible defending. Superb attacking. Crazy swings. A piece of category one cheating rewarded with a red card. A sublime deciding goal and two teams who didn’t stop working.

Both sides – the cheat notwithstanding – were a credit to themselves and, by the way, to their clubs.

Our lads were just better.

As an attacking force, we had more quality and that’s really what it came down to.

On a technical level, we have them beat.

As great as the game was to watch, it was occasionally painful to listen to.

What is BBC Scotland’s issue with providing match commentary teams who wear their Ibrox colours on their sleeves?

A good commentary team shouldn’t spend even a minute of a game advertising that.

You should be able to sit a neutral down to watch a match and have them not even know that the commentators do have preferred teams, or sides that they played for.

Listen, I thought Ricky Foster was basically fair last night on the main events of the match, even though he’s a prize dolt and too dumb to doing commentary in the first place.

But the number of times he used “we” or some other word like it when talking about their team was bugging me long before the match ended. And he wasn’t even the worst.

The anchor was worse, by far, with his constant references to “can (the Ibrox team) get back into it?” and the endless references towards the end about their heroism in fighting with only having ten men, and the number of times he was almost drooling into the microphone when talking about certain players.

They even tried to turn the damned half-time interval into a discussion about the Great White Hype Adam Lowry.

Honestly, I actually lost my shit at one point and started shouting at the TV that “You know there are two teams taking part in this game, right?” That usually doesn’t happen during youth games, but more and more and more it happens whenever I watch the BBC.

That organisation’s biases are almost unbearable now, but here’s the funny thing; I said I thought that Forster tried to be fair, but that his biases kept on coming out,

Over on the Ibrox forums they spent the whole game in a rage at him because of that self-same attempt to honestly analyse the match. They were particularly pissed off with him for agreeing that Lovelace dived and deserved his red card for it.

When it comes right down to it, he doesn’t hide his allegiance to Ibrox any more than Bobby Madden is kidding us on about his … but even the most basic attempt from this guy to offer an honest critique was met, over on those forums, with all-out hostility and folk accusing him of being a sell-out.

If you played for them, you owe them nothing but obsequious slavering loyaly … anything else is heresy.

It’s astounding to me the way their minds work.

BBC Scotland’s sports department and its pro-Ibrox slant is a running joke on this site and others, with the suspicion that you only need to have played there for the home team to qualify you for a job now nearly universal … but amidst the fans of that club the detestation of the same organisation for its perceived pro-Celtic leanings are never far from the surface.

You literally could not make that up.

So yeah, last night’s Youth Cup Final was spectacular and I was dead proud of the young Hoops for their victory and the quality of some of their goals.

I enjoyed every bit of it.

Every bit of it except large parts of the commentary which reeked of the unprofessionalism of bias.

But with BBC Sports Scotland, what the Hell else is new?