One of our best players – The Sportscene host lets it slide over the John Souttar injury

On By Littum

Steven Thompson dropped an unfortunate truth bomb during Sportscene when he tried to analyze St Mirren’s win over his real team.

Like most on the BBC Scotland payroll, Thommo likes to pretend he’s a fan of a Diddy team, when the truth is his interest in Scottish football starts and ends at Ibrox.

It is this kind of product knowledge that ensures a long-term career at BBC Scotland. Overstaffed and overpaid, it has accumulated the divorce talent base that includes Thompson, Kenny Macintyre, Alasdair Lamont and Jane Lewis as presenters with Neil McCann, Kenny Miller, Steven Naismith, Billy Dodds, Cammy Bell and Lee McCulloch on call as experts.

Thursday’s episode would have been eagerly awaited with Phil Clement’s exciting young side now in second place and a win on January 2 away from just six points behind Celtic.

That was the plan for Sportscene on the evening, with Thommo joining Naismith and Scott Allan to review the highlights of December 26.

The Sportscene studio must have been the scene of absolute misery when St. Mirren forced the boys to tear up the script as Clement’s side lost for the fourth time this season, with Celtic closing in on a 55th title this spring.

Leon Balogun limped off injured in the first half and forced Robin Propper off the bench for another unfortunate experience of Scottish football.

Knowing John Souttar is out for another month leaves Clement with two central defenders going into the new year, which could be further reduced with Propper expected to pick up an injury at Motherwell on Sunday that will rule him out of to face Celtic four days later.

Big Thommo has never had any offers from commercial media companies, his presentation style seems perfectly suited to a lifetime inside BBC Scotland or until the license fee is abolished.