A few weeks ago, as you’ll all most probably be aware, there was a minor newspaper story about how BT Sport turned down the volume on some of our fans singing rebel songs, presumably so that certain sections of Scotland would not be “offended” by such tunes.
It must be nice to be looked after so by the broadcaster.
Last night they had no problem with the rest of us being subjected to a bile-a-thon.
It seems to me that the worse Sevco’s dire situation gets, and the further behind Celtic they fall, that their solution is to slide down deeper into the gutter. Their club is a shambles at the moment, from the very top to the players on the pitch. The media is talking about how last night was a great example of them showing team spirit and coming together; actually Hamilton put in a performance last night which redefined the word “inept.”
Yes, it was that bad. They lost three goals in the space of ten minutes; after the second one their heads dropped and they simply chucked it. When the second half started and Sevco went down to ten men, they failed to capitalise and within minutes had given away a penalty.
They even contrived to miss one with enough time left to have made it hard.
It was dire. Absolutely dire.
So too was the singing, a 90 minute non-stop bigots beano, pouring out of the stands and if they want to wallow in the gutter that would otherwise be of no concern to the rest of us, but last night every single viewer was subjected to it too.
Of course, there’s zero mention of this in the media, and instead one particular numpty with a column – and shouldn’t he be focussed on playing football and trying to better his paltry eight goals from last season – wants to focus on some song a group of Celtic fans, in a pub, allegedly sung about Jimmy Bell.
First, forgive me if I show a distinct lack of giving a toss what someone sings in a boozer about a stone bigot who refused to put out kit for the club’s first Catholic signing. What people do in a pub is between them, the landlord and the police if they get involved.
Let me repeat this for the 10000th time; every football club in Scotland has its share of halfwits. If you wanted to smear every one of them you could do it, easily. Finding idiot Celtic fans is as easy as finding idiot Hibs or Hearts or Motherwell or Aberdeen supporters … but it’s more fun for the press, which is why they seem to go out of their way to highlight every ridiculous clip they find on YouTube or every rumour of guys falling out with each other in Belgium.
We could all find video footage of goons in pubs making eejits of themselves, but life’s too short to even try.
But when you put the telly on to watch football on a Friday night you do not pay subscription money to be forced to either watch it in silence or sit through cretins signing about being up to their knees in your blood. That’s not entertainment.