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Trial by Sportscene is not guilty of leading charge against players

SOME people would have you believe that Sportscene now so closely resembles Crimewatch that Rob Maclean should finish each show by saying "don't have nightmares".

Diving, punching, shoving, angry gestures, off-the-ball stuff: it's all there, shown well after the watershed so that kiddies are protected from the heinous events at Clydesdale Bank Premier League matches. The problem for BBC Scotland, and to a lesser extent fellow broadcasters Sky Sports and ESPN, is that they are getting blamed for showing it.