Oh where even to start?
How about with The Sun, who led off with the idea that Scott Sinclair will definitely be leaving in the summer.
To be fair, E-Tims hinted at the same, but they had a different take on the reasons why.
Scott Sinclair has “achieved everything” he can at Celtic?
Really? Cause a lot of people will see a dip in form and conclude that if he goes he’s not leaving on a high.
He’s disappointed about being dropped? Well if his heart isn’t really in it, what does he expect?
The thing about this story … I am always suspicious when I see a Scottish hack claiming an “exclusive” like this; it’s such an easy story to simply invent and its one of those ones that if it doesn’t come off you can say “Hey, I guess they sorted stuff out.”
If Scott has personal issues then of course he will go, and every Celtic fan – every real Celtic fan as opposed to some of the muppets on social media who are already calling him a traitor on the back of what a tabloid hack has written, with clear intent – will wish Scott well for his future. Playing for Celtic is an honour, but it does not trump family. It does not negate a man’s responsibilities to the people he loves. That comes first, always, and it should.
My gripe here is that the hack in question has tried to make this an issue about loyalty instead with his assertion that Sinclair wants to go because he’s bored.
And that makes it a naked attack on us.
You have to get to the bottom of The Sun’s wretched article to get to the real point of it, but we’ll come back to that in a minute.
The Record has a story about which of our first team players could be for the off in the summer.
If you believe what’s in there Brendan will struggle to put out a starting eleven. Sevconuts are foaming at the mouth about it because they believe they see the whole Brendan Rodgers citadel crumbling. They can dream on. This is the last refuge of the desperate.
As I’ve said before, this is the full measure of Sevco’s surrender to the inevitable. The media is slowly coming around to the idea that nobody is going to catch us, and so the only thing to do is place their faith in some scenario where we crash backwards. It is sad, it really is. This is the level of their ambition for their own club, that the league becomes a race between two wrecked clubs where the prize goes to the one which collapses over the line.
Not. Going. To. Happen. Ever.
This article isn’t even going to touch on the Kieran Tierney story or, because it has no relation to our own club, the way a domestic cup final has been ignored in the media in favour of covering a We Killed Rangers reunion match. But more on that later on, oh you better believe it.
The Sun’s article spells it out most clearly when you get to the bottom and find their hack Derek McGregor twisted this weekend’s interview with the manager out of all recognition. Yes, Brendan said he would not be at Celtic Park forever … that in no way translates into the line “Rodgers has admitted he won’t be at Celtic for the long term.”
Rodgers signed a five-year deal with us last season; that commits him here for the next three or four years anyway and in football, where the average club has an attention span of less than a season that sounds a lot like a commitment you’d struggle to get elsewhere.
This is sheer grasping at straws. But it is not journalism, not of any description and especially when you consider that we’re not the club facing all the uncertainty here. But that’s the story nobody in the media wants to write. They prefer this version.
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