The Old Firm love in Rangers had at the last Glasgow Derby was just embarrassing.
The overkill on the moniker was a brass neck for the Ibrox clubs fans who have spent the last month or so telling everyone that they don’t want anything to do with us or the Sydney Cup but then had to watch as their club fawned over the OF brand whilst clinging to Celtics coat tails.
And this caller on Clyde 1 took his opportunity to rub it into their fans with this. Have a listen:
It was brilliant opportunism from the fan and a reminder that every time they and their club participate in shameless exploitation of a brand they want nothing to do with, the Celtic fans are watching and listening.
- Celtic fan points out the obvious Scottish media anti-Celtic agenda that’s been on show this week
Celtic manager, Brendan Rodgers, was roundly hounded, criticised and lamented for his comments towards BBC reporter Jane Lewis last month.
Lewis took on a rather aggressive line of questioning towards the Celtic manager because he had the audacity to tell the truth about the narrative the Scottish media were painting about our club.
His ‘good girl’ comment made headline news across Scotland as the media tried to paint Rodgers as some sort of footballing dinosaur.
It really was a shameful episode in what has been a very predictable assault on our club by the SMSM.
And to prove just how anti-Celtic he broadcast media and their pundits are, popular Celtic account, Jungle Lion, points out just how biased they are after Ally McCoist’s comments this week.
What a superb point. The media in Scotland got themselves more upset about a throwaway comment that offended nobody than a comment made by a high profile ex-Rangers pundit who admitted he and 48,000 fans were about to break the Scottish Government’s new Hate Crime law on Sunday.
We all know what McCoist meant. The Rangers fans tried to flock to his defence but the Celtic fans have seen through McCoist’s ‘cheeky chappy’ persona for years.
McCoist and the media are fooling no one. Well, at least no one from Celtic Park anyway.
- ‘It’s actually embarrassing’ – Kris Boyd slammed for anti-Celtic comments
Kris Boyd has certainly been hitting the headlines and the ire of the Celtic fans this week.
After making a fool of himself over Kyogo Furuhashi’s penalty call in Celtic’s win over Livingston, the former EBT recipient was heavily criticised from all sections of the Celtic fans and fan media.
Boyd accused the Celtic striker of diving and it was comment that made him the focus of attention of his Sky Sport’s colleagues Chris Sutton and Robert Snodgrass.
Both pundits were unequivocal in their opinion that Kyogo was fouled and also criticised Boyd’s view on the incidient.
And Boyd should know better considering his diving history when he played for the old Rangers.
However, the Sky Sports pundit was the focus of Paul John Dykes’ criticism now as the award winning podcaster took aim at Boyd not just for his comments about Kyogo, but on just how unprofessional he is when analysing a game involving Celtic.
Dykes said (A Celtic State of Mind), “Chris (Sutton) has ripped Celtic. He ripped into Ange early doors. He ripped into Ronny Deila. I remember Craig Gordon was on his hitlist for a while as well.
“The thing about Chris Sutton, his intellectual ability to pull it off is there whereas you look at Kris Boyd and you think the guy’s not got it.
“I mean, see when I listen to an ex-footballer, by the way, I love a sense of humour, I love a wee bit of back and forth and all that. It adds entertainment to it. But at the heart of that, there needs to be knowledge, there needs to be insight.
“And from ex-professionals what I want is insight. I want a little bit that, personally as a football fan, I might not know.
“And I’m looking at it and hearing him and it’s actually embarrassing, it really is that someone like that is on their payroll.”
I can’t help but agree with Dykes. Boyd needs removed just not from Celtic games but from Sky altogether. I’m pretty sure there’s a job waiting for him in Superscoreboard as that seems to be the graveyard for ex-Oldco Rangers players.
- Ewen Cameron’s brilliant John Beaton tweet sums up what Celtic fans have known for years
John Beaton. The very mention of his name makes the Celtic fans cast suspicious glances whenever he is put in charge of one of our games.
Because we all know why. It’s not paranoia. It’s simply down to the fact that the SFA whistler’s leanings towards Rangers makes him ability to referee Celtic or Rangers impartially nigh on impossible.
We’ve witnessed some of Beaton’s outrageous decisions against Celtic time and time again not only in Glasgow Derby’s but in other regular run of the mill SPFL games as well.
And let’s not forget that Beaton also has a Rangers supporters club name after him. That’s correct. An SFA appointed referee has such a connection with the the Ibrox supporters that they’ve names a RSC after him.
Which is why when I saw radio DJ, Ewen Cameron, tweet about Beaton when he was appointed match ref for Ibrox on Sunday, I couldn’t help think that it just summed up how the Celtic fans feel about him.
It really is an incredible and damning indictment on our game’s credibility that our national association see fit to appoint a Rangers fan as ref for a title deciding Glasgow Derby.
I’m no conspiracy theorist because I know this isn’t a conspiracy. It’s as plain as the nose in your face what’s happening here and Celtic must do more to call this out.
Their silence on these matters is deafening and the Celtic supports are getting restless.
- Celtic fans simply cannot believe what former SFA ref has said about Kyogo’s penalty claim
Celtic’s 3-0 win over Livingston took the team back to the top of the league ahead of the Glasgow Derby on Sunday.
The Ibrox game has the potential of having a big day in who wins the league and Brendan Rodgers will be confident of going to Govan and pulling off another win.
The 1-0 win at Ibrox at the start of the season was a huge victory for the Celtic manager who went to Glasgow’s south side minus Cameron Carter-Vickers and Reo Hatate.
But the win was overshadowed by a yet another refereeing mistake that saw Kyogo Furuhashi be denied a stonewall penalty.
The Celtic striker was taken out by Mikey Devlin but match ref Don Robertson and VAR man Alan Muir said there was nothing to see here.
The decision outraged the Celtic fans and they were not impressed with what former referee Des Roache’s Behind The Whistles X account tweeted out about it.
Yeah, football is a contact sport as long as the contact is with the ball and not from behind on the opposition players’ knee!!
To be honest, this is not surprising. The referees in Scotland’s standards are shockingly poor and it seems they completely align with referees from the past and these Celtic fans weren’t having any of it:
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsNot sure I agree with you guys here Kyogo is taken from the back and the defender makes no contact with the ball it’s a penalty
— John Trainer (@jct62) April 1, 2024
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsKyogo is attempting to plant feet to control ball, Devlin isn’t in front of kyogo so coming too close and then into him with knee, surely that’s a foul and not ‘a contact sport’ type of comment… And no I’m not just saying this as a Celtic fan, I can’t see how it’s not a pen?
— Michael B (@tyroneceltic) April 1, 2024
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.js😂 why are you posting lies? Kyogo is going to control the ball with his right foot back to goal. Gordon is just trying to get his leg in the way and win a pen. They are nothing alike.
— Steven Whyte (@SWhyte112) April 1, 2024
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsYep don’t get to the ball first I’m sure every coach I’ve ever had stressed that. WTF, Kyogo gets to the ball first and the defender goes through him. Kyogo’s quick movement gets him in a better position, as unfortunate as it is, it is still a penalty.
— magee (@Bhoys4life) April 1, 2024
https://platform.twitter.com/widgets.jsKyogo had already controlled the ball…..what planet are you all on 😄 🤣 the contact was after he controlled the ball which he “jumped” to reach.
— Viva La Quinta Abada (@Che_Ntcham) April 1, 2024
