We’ve seen throughout this season that the ongoing feud with the BBC runs much deeper than just a couple of reporters or pundits who aren’t our biggest fans.
The editorial team on Sportscene clearly operates with an agenda that starts with “Rangers bad” and works its way backwards.
The additions of Steven Thompson as a presenter and Richard Foster as a pundit has brought a little bit more normality to proceedings but even after a relatively straight forward Old Firm derby without controversy, they managed to make a mess of the post match analysis.
You would think, seeing as it was the first derby since Steven Gerrard arrived that saw either side win with a three goal advantage, that the focus would be on the men in Light Blue and the outstanding individual performances across the pitch, wrong.
There could also have been a montage as long as the highlights themselves of Ryan Kent torturing Scott Brown, Gerrard alluded after the match that it was part of the game plan for him to operate in the same areas of the pitch, that we didn’t once get to see the Gers forward sending Greg Taylor so far out of Ibrox that he had to pay to get back in was nothing short of a disgrace, even the most bitter of Rangers hating neutral would have found it hard to sit and nod in appreciation – had they been given the chance to see it of course.
Vital Rangers Young Player of the Year
Ianis Hagi
Nathan Patterson
James Maxwell
Stephen Kelly
No analysis of our excellent third or fourth goals but instead we were “treated” to clips of Celtic missing half chances and a bizarre Brown remembrance video after one of the worst Old Firm performances I’ve ever seen from an individual and that includes Joey Barton and Phillipe Senderos, editorially fair? Don’t make me laugh.
The pain from Pacific Quay is clear for all to see, but we shouldn’t expect anything less, as a wise man once said though – “How can you see looking through those tears?”.