Celtic will host a media conference today to preview their home match against Livingston to SPFL Premiership.
The conference is strictly by invite only.
No fan websites or podcasts will be present.
Celtic’s preferred broadcasters and publishers will be present.
The usual suspects. Sky Sports, Radio Clyde, Daily Record, Herald, The Sun, Daily Mail and others.
BBC Scotland have been on the invite list recently but that has to be in doubt after Sunday’s ambush of Brian Wilson.
GULLIBLE CELTIC CHAIRMAN AMBUSHED
The former Labour MP is currently sitting in as interim Chairman of Celtic after over 20 years on the gravy train as a Non Executive Director. Happily nodding through some of the most baffling and disastrous decisions in the history of the club.
From the Five Way Agreement of 2012 to the appointments of Paul Tisdale and Wilfried Nancy Wilson hasn’t raised a word of concern.
He does have an unhealthy obsession with the Scottish Government.
Like BBC Scotland Wilson will shoehorn the SNP into any controversy.
On that basis an invite to The Sunday Show seemed perfectly logical. Wilson walked straight into it.
Unfortunately for the Celtic Chairman the big hitters in the Labour Party were in hiding on Sunday.
They knew the subject, they knew the agenda. Mandelson-Starmer-Epstein.
THE STITCH UP
What happened next wasn’t what Wilson expected. Inside the BBC Scotland studio he was hi-jacked. Presenter Gary Robertson went off the pre-agreed schedule.
Wilson wasn’t happy after fielding a few questions he made it clear that he wasn’t there in a Celtic capacity.
Clearly his judgement isn’t as sharp as it one was. Fans saw straight through his Celtic TV interview and his fake meeting with four young lads in the street.
He could of course have highlighted the irony of the question from someone employed by the same company that gave Jimmy Saville, Rolf Harris, Stuart Hall and Huw Edwards celebrity status and millions of pounds.
If historic child abuse at a football club can be deemed relevant to the Mandelson scandal by BBC Scotland then we look forward to Anas Sarwar being asked about the FIVE ex-Scottish Labour councillors convicted of child sex offences since 2017.
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After that act Celtic will send out their invites for the Livingston media conference.
Under Brendan Rodgers BBC Scotland were off the invite list. Most fans assumed that it was in reaction to a hatchet piece by the no-mark that is Tom English.
CELTIC AND THEIR MEDIA PARTNERS
As soon as Rodgers left Celtic in October Communications Manager Iain Jamieson restored access to BBC Scotland. Around about the same time as the limited access to fan media was ended.
Since returning there has been regularly snide questions from BBC reporters. They wouldn’t dream of using similar lines of questioning at Ibrox.
Danny Rohl wasn’t asked for his thoughts on a report linking injured players to trips away from home for so-called specialist physio sessions. Groin strains were a particular problem.
We will know in mid-afternoon if Celtic want to be trampled over by BBC Scotland.
It seems that supporters and fan media outlets are the only targets for Celtic and their Communications/PR strategy.
1 Comment
by Bryan Coyle
F**kin scumbag of an interviewer what the f**k was Wilson thinking about walking into that. Ban the BBC and the rest of the anti-Celtic hun media from Cellic Park for good.
Fan media only should be allowed at our press conferences.