Since the national broadcaster summarily axed the decades-long tradition of reading the football results on the radio on Saturday teatime, opposition to the decision has been growing.
Objections to the change are considerable, not least because of the manner in which the affair has been handled. The BBC won’t say who made the call, which undermines its oft-repeated pledges on greater transparency and accountability.
In arguing that the time freed up will facilitate live coverage of another Premier League fixture, the BBC is only confirming the suspicion that it prizes the elite division in England over the lower leagues and the game in Scotland. Yet it is the intervention of the Royal National Institute of Blind People that should surely now prove conclusive and force
