There appeared to be a marked absence of BBC voices at Martin O’Neill’s media conference to preview Celtic’s match with Livingston.
The high pitched nonsense of Jonathan Sutherland and David Currie wasn’t heard.
And there was no long winded, going round the houses questions posed by Kheredine Idessane.
Tuesday’s media conference was strictly by invite only which explains why no Celtic fan media outlets were in the room.
The SPFL has a contract with the BBC that gives them exclusive interviews pre and post match with club managers.
The day before, general media conference is entirely at the discretion of the hosting club.
It seems that Michael Nicholson’s plans for greater communications ended with the launch of a bog standard Celtic app.
The Celtic CEO has still to grace the app, sharing his insights and vision for the club.
BBC SCOTLAND- TRUSTED BY CELTIC
BBC Scotland are long standing media partners of Celtic.
Chris McLaughlin could always be called on to deliver the party line while Peter Lawwell was CEO.
McLaughlin shared the news that Celtic were a stand alone club while Lawwell went into panic mode at the thought of the liquidation of his Old Firm business partners.
That cost relationship probably helped reassure Brian Wilson into making an appearance on The Sunday Show. A programme renowned for the fawning treatment on Anas Sarwar.
On Sunday morning the Celtic Chairman got a very rude surprise.
As he defended the links between his comrades and the disgraced Peter Mandelson Gary Robertson went seriously off script.
Celtic, and one particular issue wasn’t on the agenda when Wilson accepted the call to defend his Labour Party chums.
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.
David Graham, 2025 – Sexually… https://t.co/49S79j0oIH
— MSM Monitor (@msm_monitor) February 8, 2026
Wilson was very rusty on Sunday morning.
He is no longer a street-wise campaigner. He is out of touch with the modern ways and the attitude of BBC Scotland to all things Celtic.
BRIAN WILSON AMBUSHED
Robertson tried three times to get Wilson talking about Celtic Boys Club. One mention of Jimmy Saville, Stuart Hall, Rolf Harris or Huw Edwards would have forced the BBC presenter to abandon that line of questioning.
Wilson was furious. After 20 years as a Celtic NED the concept of accountability is totally alien to him.
At Tuesday’s media conference the opening questions to Martin O’Neill were from Adam BInnie.
He does put in some shifts for BBC Scotland but on this occasion he was leading for Sky Sports News.
Next to ask questions was Gabriel Antonizi of Radio Clyde.
There were no silly questions from Currie or Sutherland. None of the banter from Kenny Macintyre’s WATP Group chat.
The BBC Scotland website did cover the O’Neill conference but with no name against it.
With their vast staff and budget the state broadcaster should have a name against their Celtic content. What have they got to hide?
3 Comments
by Valentine's day massacre
What ..no big Rangers Bandwagon or Tin Tin from Stv either ? Maybe there is further carnage cutbacks from the cut price third rate broadcaster happening ? Let’s give you some Rangers news now ….
by Mr Vincent McSherry
sincerely hope the bbc are banned, their bias is beyond a joke now
by Alex Campbell
I watched the Politics show on Sunday morning and my first reaction was to be surprised to see Brian Wilson on it. Mainly because I thought the Celtic Board had taken a vow of silence.
As the show progressed I realised that he had been hijacked when the interviewer began talking about Celtic Boys Club.
What on earth this has to do with the scandal surrounding Epstein/Mandleson and the Labour Party is difficult to comprehend.
Also a member of the Windsor family who amongst other things was giving Epstein confidential business advice when he was a Trade Ambassador for Britain.
The interview reached a low point then. I’m afraid that the programme did nothing to stop Celtic supporters view that the National Broadcaster has an anti Celtic agenda.
I was pleased that Brian Wilson was able to hold his ground on the issue. The mainstream media in Scotland is pathetic and this programme just proved it.