Tartan Army uproar over Scotland TV shambles as ENGLAND game is a disgrace for furious armchair fans – Hotline

Scotland fans can forget about reaching for the remote control on Saturday evening after Viaplay bosses muted talks on allowing rival broadcasters to screen the Nations League clash with Croatia.

Instead, the Tartan Army home guard will have to tune into the Zagreb showdown online via the Nordic firm’s YouTube channel. All that wouldn’t be quite so bad were it not for the fact Scottish armchair viewers will be treated to both of England’s games against Greece and Finland this week.

John Davidson, Kirkintilloch, raged: “Very good, we get entertained by the England game being shown live on STV, but with our own home nation playing away in Croatia we're unable to view the game due to no TV stations willing to broadcast the game.” Allan Donaldson, Clydebank, added: “What an absolute shambles. It was bad enough having to fork out extra to see Scotland games broadcast on yet another channel before Viaplay’s finances ran out but now they can’t even strike a deal to allow folk to watch it on the telly. I just hope my broadband signal holds up.”

Charles Maxwell also said: "They say football is a spectator sport. That is unless you're a Scotland fan. Despite a guaranteed audience of millions of real-time viewers so called broadcasters continually hide our national game. Thankfully, I have a good radio." Dr Robert Pender won’t be tuning in it seems after he emailed in to ask: “Am I the only one who is fed up with these international breaks. Let us cut them back a bit.”

Back to club matters then and Drew Ferguson, Oban, wants to know what’s going on at Ibrox after Creag Robertson became the last key Rangers figure to quit. He said: “It is time interim chairman John Gilligan put his head above the parapet and told the lifeblood fans