Tom English v Lynsey Sharp

[pete 2,499]

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English got the Celtic hate brigade on her case but she replied with a great answer.

[Gonzo79 15,294]

Lynsey has shown the correct way to deal with smug media twats.  

 

Phrases like "front up" demonstrate his ineptitude.

Edited April 14, 2018 by Gonzo79

[der Berliner 3,744]

The comments from some of the Scum followers are atrocious. Why do these idiots think that they are anonymous on the web? Hope Lynsey reports them ...

[26th of foot 6,082]

Oh Tom, you know BBC Scotland's policy towards all things Rangers is careful hate. You have over stepped and Donalda will have you in for an interview without coffee and chair.

[Scott7 6,008]

She’ll more likely give him a pay rise.

[aweebluesoandso 290]

Very unprofessional from English, allowing his twitter bigots to troll Lindsey. He should be sacked, but half the bigots on his twitter feed are BBC staff probably. Bigoted Broadcasting Company.

Edited April 14, 2018 by aweebluesoandso

[ian1964 10,724]

Just now, aweebluesoandso said:

Very unprofessional from English, allowing his twitter bigots to troll Lindsey. He should be sacked, but half the bigots on his twitter feed are BBBC staff probably. 

He will be a hero within the BBC for this, back slapping all round

[26th of foot 6,082]

Both Angela Haggerty and Annie McGuire were on air at BBC Scotland for several hours yesterday. They would have known of Tom's blatant swerve towards misogyny, his painting a target on the back of a girl wearing a Team Scotland jersey, and what ensued. They said nothing.

 

You see, Lynsey is not part of the sisterhood, she's a H-u-n!

Edited April 15, 2018 by 26th of foot

[26th of foot 6,082]

I was listening to Jeff Webster's show on BBC Radio Scotland on Sunday noon, the old firm build-up was beginning. Dandy Don, Jeff began with the immediate aftermath of the Commonwealth Games, Hugh MacDonald and athlete, Lee McConnell joined him for the thirty minute wash up on Gold Coast events. Both John Beattie and Kheredine Idessane joined in from Australia, with the closing ceremony going on in the background. Obviously, the welfare of Scots marathon runner, Callum Hawkins was uppermost. I am sure many Gersnetters are aware that Hawkins was two minutes ahead of the field with a mile to go, when he collapsed from heat exhaustion. He picked himself up, staggered forward another few dozen steps before collapsing again, this time hitting his head off the crush barrier, on the way down. It was in excess of seven minutes before appropriate medical attention was delivered.

 

There's an interlude at this point in the narrative, we can see from the above posts that Tom English attempted to bully a Scots athlete, Lynsey Sharp for an indifferent performance, or because she blanked Tom's questions? Let me take you back four years to Glasgow, and Lynsey Sharp has just secured silver for Scotland in the 800 metres. She gushed on her achievement, dedicated it to her father, fellow Commonwealth and Olympian athlete, Cameron who has been in a dreadful state of health since a car crash quarter of a century before. Lynsey added her desire to take her medal to Ibrox and share it with her fellow Rangers supporters. Tom quipped on BBC Radio Scotland that at least Rangers supporters will see some silverware this season. The usual suspects indulged in a few jibes and sniggers, read out a few e-mails based on Lynsey's desire. One of those contributions emanated from a female from Biggar, attending Ibrox for the Rugby Sevens. She thought Ibrox was a wonderful venue for family gatherings, everyone cheering both sides' efforts, and it's capacity was perfect for rugby fans in the west. As rugger types could fill the stadium, and create such a wonderful atmosphere, it should become a rugby venue. Lot's of murmuring approval from the studio. Subsequently, we found out that the e-mailing female was SNP MSP, Humza Yousaf's office manager.

 

BBC Scotland realised it had gone too far again, and read out another contribution before the show's conclusion, that the current Ibrox was constructed as a memorial to those that had perished on the 2nd January'71. It is like Tom English's contribution on twitter, after painting a target on the back of Lynsey Sharp, He was correctly embarrassed at the vile sectarian abuse being doled out to a Scot's athlete by cyber yahoos. Tom's motivation for getting after Lynsey stems from four years past.

 

Back to Jeff Webster, Lee McConnell provided the timings of Sharp's qualifier and winning finalist; further, she reminded the listeners that April was the very start of northern hemisphere season and it was a big ask for our athletes. Hugh MacDonald murmured that Sharp's big let down was blanking the media. McConnell felt everyone had the right to deal with disappointment the way they saw it, but added she would not have avoided questions after a disappointing race. Hugh felt firmer ground and related back to Glasgow and swimmer, Michael Jamieson. Similarly, he failed in the Commonwealth Games and paraded his Olympic silver medal around Sellik Park. He was out in front of the media explaining his failure, immediately. Hugh provided an appropriate, or maybe approved role model for Lynsey, but did not mention the horrific abuse suffered by Sharp because the Hector Tom had been bested by her on Twitter.

 

This is where it got most interesting, both Beattie and Idessane(remember, in Australia) both chimed in with Sharp's actions reference Callum Hawkins. She ran over a kilometer in hot, humid conditions with bottles of water, and was the first to administrate any aid to the collapsed athlete, nearly two minutes before medical attention. 

 

Twenty years past, when MacDonald was the Herald's Literary Editor, he had a column in the Saturday Sports supplement. Often, he returned to Journalists taking a line on a story. This was a bad thing, information was lost because half-a-dozen journos ion attendance at a sporting event would naturally see things differently, and such a compromise deprived the readership of the full facts. I have read Gordon Waddell's piece on Hawkins collapse in the Record, read the Scottish Daily Mail's John Greechan's piece too, ......... etc and all have written Lynsey Sharp's actions out of their reports. I wonder if a line has been taken to ensure bullying Tom's vanity remains intact?

 

We should be told.

 

Well done John Beattie and Kheredine Idessane.   

 

 

[Frankie 8,562]

Having been away over the weekend, I wasn't aware of that story.  Thanks as always 26th!