Sky Sports delete a video of Jamie O’Hara saying Stockport County of English League One would win the Scottish Premiership.
The broadcaster and pundit faced backlash on social media on Thursday (14 November), when he claimed on Sky Sports News that they could win the Scottish Premiership this season.
O’Hara questioned Celtic’s appeal as well as their status as a major club, saying they had been “custard pied” by managerial candidates after Columbus Crew coach Wilfried Nancy was reportedly a potential candidate for the vacant job at Celtic Park.
Celtic podcaster Paul John Dykes called the assertion “nonsense,” and widespread backlash from fans, leading to Sky Sports to quietly remove the clip from social media, including Sky Sports Scotland, and their website.
Great to see our main broadcaster give a platform to someone who likes to talk down our game.
The Talksportification of Sky Sports News is well and truly complete
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Paul John Dykes was asked about the interest in Wilfried Nancy, he said: “I think he is a forward thinking and progressive coach. He is a bit of a football philosopher. When these names arise you do all your research, and I can understand why he’s a candidate, absolutely, no doubt about it.
“But I can see that, obviously there’s a comparison there between the Scottish game and MLS pros and cons. I know Jamie’s a massive fan of Scottish football, but Celtic are still a huge draw. Celtic are a massive draw. So I’m pretty sure there’ll be quite a few on the shortlist.”
O’Hara: “You say it’s a massive draw, the shortlist has come up. I mean, you get custard pie’d by managers who don’t want the job. Knutsen, Kieran McKenna. You’re saying it’s a massive club, it isn’t, and it’s shown.”
Dykes: “Jamie, Celtic is a massive club and it’s about time you realised that. I know you are playing the pantomime villain but custard pie’d by whom? Who gave Celtic the custard pie? Who knocked us back? You’re speculating there, obviously.”
O’Hara: “You’re looking at a manager from the MLS. You can’t tell me you’re a big club if you’re looking at a manager from the MLS.”
Dykes: “That’s very disrespectful of the MLS, Jamie.”
O’Hara: “It’s just true, isn’t it? What manager manager who is in the the MLS gets a massive job?”
Dykes: “Celtic and Scottish football know where we are in the food chain, Jamie. So if someone comes to us like Ange Postecoglou, we know that they might be using it as a platform to a team like Tottenham.”
O’Hara: “You can’t say you’re one of the biggest clubs in the world then, if you’re saying that the manager comes there and it’s a pathway to a bigger job.”
Dykes: “Do you understand what I mean by the biggest club in the world? Do you understand what that entails? We were just defeated by Midtjylland who’s got a capacity of 12,000 we have a capacity 60,000.
“54,000 season ticket holders, a global fan base, Jamie. You constantly have a bad word to say about Scottish football so I think you are compromised in this discussion.”
O’Hara: “You can’t keep saying you are a massive football club when when you’re trying to attract a manager from the MLS, and you just said it that the manager will use you as a pathway to a bigger club.”
Presenter: “No, I use an example of Ange Postecoglou as using Celtic as a platform. Not every manager does. We just sacked a manager. He’s unemployed.”
O’Hara: “Because he left you to go to Leicester.”
Dykes: “Yeah, he left under certain circumstances I’m not sure you’re aware of Jamie, because you’re doing a lot of speculation here. Celtic Football Club is one of the biggest brands in Global Football. If you don’t realise that, you’re compromised.”
This is how fans reacted as Sky Sports delete video of Jamie O’Hara saying Stockport would win the Scottish Premiership…
@PaddySinat: Eh @ScotlandSky why have you deleted the video of @ACSOMPOD podcaster @PaulJohnDykes absolutely humiliating Jamie O’Hara?
@EwenDCameron: ‘Stockport of League 1 would win the Scottish Premiership’ says the tool that is Jamie O’Hara. This is clear evidence that Sky Sports, who already treat us like a 2nd class citizen with our tv deal, use their platform to mock us and rip the piss. I watched the full exchange and if I was the editor of that show I’d be embarrassed at the way the presenter and O’Hara conducted themselves. They should be ashamed and I’m not surprised they deleted the entire segment from their own social media platforms because it was bang out of order. But the internet never forgets and Sky Sports need calling out for their unprofessional hit job on John, who was excellent, and the disrespect shown to our national game. #SkySports
@MaestroMcStay: Ewen, what got me was this is a Sky Sports pundit saying this. Bearing in mind Sky do invest in Scottish Football albeit you might argue not enough, but they do. Here’s one of their own slating a product that we pay through the nose to watch on their channels
@dnleslie: Spot on. The whole segment was a shambles from start to finish. O’Hara’s “Stockport would win the Premiership” line wasn’t analysis – it was cheap shock-value punditry designed to get laughs at Scotland’s expense, and the presenter let it run because that’s the level they aim for now. Sky have form for this. They give us a bargain-basement TV deal, talk down our game at every opportunity, then act surprised when folk switch off. I watched the full exchange too, and if that’s what passes for editorial standards, they should be embarrassed. No wonder they scrubbed it from their socials – they knew exactly how bad it looked. And you’re absolutely right: Stockport would do well to take anything off Hearts, Hibs, Aberdeen, Dundee United and plenty of others. The idea they’d stroll the Premiership is delusional. I binned my Sky subscription ages ago for the same reason – the contempt they show Scottish football is unbelievable. The internet doesn’t forget, and neither should supporters. It’s about time Sky were held to account for the way they treat our national game.
@ButlerAndy: Him and Cundy are absolutely unlistenable on TalkSport. Two pub bores ranting and raving in an almost threatening tone. They make Robbie Savage and Chris Sutton sound informed and measured. But it seems this is SKY Sports target audience, the rent a mouth lad culture dullard
@baheed75: Sky sports are starting to follow the talkSPORT model which is a bad move . We pay for opinions and knowledge rather than personalities and push for clicks . Listen to the Monday night club on 5 live then talkSPORT and it’s night and day . To many clueless ex pros get airtime
@HLTCO: It’s incomprehensible that Sky Sports continue to give so much airtime to someone as inflammatory, narrow-minded, ill-informed and arrogant as Jamie O’Hara UNTIL you realise that all of those traits sit perfectly alongside the hysteria-fuelled model they’re gagging to push.
@GaryLennon16: What a great look for a broadcaster of the Scottish Premiership, to be belittling of the Scottish Premiership. To be expected from them.
@Gazala2: Can @SkySportsNews stop trying to turn their channel into TalkSport? Just get back to informed discussions with footballers who’ve won things or played at the highest level. We know you’re chasing a younger audience but stop alienating those who’ve been loyal viewers for years!
@cfcjoe1888__: scottish football twitter is truly the most horrible hate filled space on his app until some nobody like jamie o’hara takes it upon himself to slag off scottish football. then all of that vileness suddenly gets redirected towards jamie o’hara from all angles and i’m all for it 😂
@Userisjamie: They deleted this NOT because of O’Hara. But because they showed a chart that factually showcased Sky’s purposeful, under investment in Scottish football for 3 decades. What an own goal.
@ZakHowells: It’s just a shame what Sky has become really. Outside of the occasional Soccer Saturday I can’t remember the last time I willingly put SSN on. And don’t get me started on buildup or post game punditry either. Total load of shite on all fronts.
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