Scotland’s national broadcaster BBC Scotland have given the conspiracy nutjobs what they want by probing Bobby Madden on his alleged Rangers allegiances.
The Celtic support are famous for their half-baked conspiracy theories about Scotland’s refereeing contingent and despite being far and away the nation’s best whistler of his generation, Bobby Madden was routinely targeted.
This is the same mob whose mouth-frothing ramblings have seen John Beaton terrified to make a decision and have every referee on strings heading into Celtic’s matches.
The masons, the Orange lodge, Rangers supporters clubs; all apparently the masterminds behind Scottish officiating’s hatred of Celtic.
That’s the same Celtic who’ll barely get a yellow card, were given free reign waltz to Scottish Premiership dominance amid Rangers’ demotion, and who have the barely-functioning SPFL in their back pocket quite clearly against the better interests of the country’s game.
And yet now, we’ve got the national broadcaster, yes, the national broadcaster, BBC Scotland validating their rubbish by pressing Bobby Madden on his allegiances to Rangers.
“This has been bandied about for years and I can speak openly now, and I think anyone who knows me will know,” said Bobby Madden.
“I was raised by my grandparents and my grandfather was a massive Rangers fan and took me to Ibrox until I was about 12 or 13. And through ill-health stopped going.
“My brother was a St Mirren fan. But at that point of 12, 13, 14, I started running, I became a junior international, so I really took a limited interest in football at that stage. When I didn’t have a race, I would go to Love Street as it was called at the time.
“I would go there with my brother who had a season ticket. So no, you hear the rumours, I’m a mason, a shareholder, I ran a supporters bus.
“It’s very easy to create a rumour now and if someone says I used to work with him, it gives a degree of credibility and they can put anything on that.
“I worked in a distribution centre for 12 years. They knew I was a runner, on spare weekends I went to Love Street. I actually sat beside some people who worked with us I knew, people will always try to find a way to criticise and cast aspersions.
“So I did go when I was younger with my grandfather but I was never a season ticket holder or any of these other things.”
We’re sure this will pacify the nutjobs. You just need to look at the replies on the above embedded tweet to see it’s just given them more to screech about.
BBC Scotland pander to mentalists wit Bobby Madden Rangers questions
It’s a clearly uncomfortable line of questioning and Bobby Madden has had his professional integrity brought into question by the BBC Scotland asking him to reveal details of his childhood past.
But in the latest edition of “professional referee was raised liking football shock”, Bobby Madden revealed his grandfather was a Rangers fan but he actually supported St Mirren as a teenager.
What an effortlessly brain dead line of questioning which has offered nothing but additional conspiracy claptrap and for us, it smacks of huge respect to Bobby Madden who is now retired after a short stint down south.
Leaving the Scottish game in 2022, the whistler spent a season down south in England but cited frustrations with the English system behind his decision to retire a year earlier.
Bobby Madden also overcame thyroid cancer in 2016 to reach the top of the Scottish game and how depressing that such a seemingly respected institution as BBC Scotland have reduced his retirement to daft soundbites pandering to conspiracies about Rangers bias.
