Network in muddle, as Connery would have had it? (4)

I haven't cracked this one yet — but the brilliant team at Times for the Times have:

007 star Sean Connery was often the subject of debate as to whether he had a lisp or just a distinctive Scottish way of pronouncing things. If he said MESS (muddle) it might have sounded like MESH. Many of Connery’s more profound utterances are on record, such as “I am a Scotsman! I was a Scotsman and I will always be one.”