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.
