Shameless BBC Scotland send sports team on Zagreb jolly boys outing as they produce blank screens

BBC Scotland have refused to stump up a token fee to Viaplay Sports to show tonight’s Nations League match between Croatia in Scotland.

In August the state broadcaster found the funds to get exclusive coverage of ‘Rangers’ losing to Dinamo Kiev in a Champions League qualifier but it seems that funds weren’t available for the international team.

BBC Scotland will have their top team of experts and pundits, mainly drawn from the Rangers EBT list on duty today with radio coverage from 2pm through to 7.30pm followed by a couple of hours of hilarious working class banter from Stuart Cosgrove and Tam Cowan, their second set of fees for the day from the state broadcaster.

Viaplay Sports bought the rights to Scotland’s Nations League fixtures but have scaled down their UK operations.

ITV paid out for the September fixtures against Portugal and Poland, this time it seems that no broadcaster has offered a suitable figure with Viaplay putting the game on You Tube despite hundreds of thousands of Scottish people funding the BBC through the TV licence.

Kenny Macintyre will be the anchorman for today’s studio coverage from Glasgow with a couple of his Ibrox heroes for company with Billy Dodds, Steven Thompson and Neil McCann the likely lads to slag off Tony Ralston and state the case for Nicky Devlin, Nathan Patterson, Aaron Hickey, Max Johnston, Alan Hutton or James Tavernier to be selected at right-back.

On the ground in Zagreb the BBC are well staffed with reporters out asking boring questions to the Tartan Army as they rack up the expenses following last month’s exercise in Lisbon.

Either Liam McLeod or Alasdair Lamont will provide radio coverage, both are long term Radio Scotland employees that wouldn’t last five minutes in the private sector.

James Faddy McFadden will probably be one of the co-commentators with back up coming from Tom English or Jane Lewis with Cammy Bell or Rory Loy on standby to share their expert analysis.

At match time tonight BBC Scotland will be showing Garden Rescue followed by news then onto episode 3 of Alan Carr’s Picture Slam.