That Was A Terrible Week For The Craziness Of The Anti-Celtic Media

Wednesday: The Embarrassing “Celtic Fan Survey” Which “Warned” Ange.

Wednesday was a real day for the moonhowling Record. A truly vintage piece of dire garbage from one of their writers, which masqueraded as a “Celtic Fan Survey” which had a “warning” for our manager.

Imagine commissioning a poll and then trying to spin your own results to get a negative headline!

This is what The Record did, trying to insist that only a minority of our supporters would blame the board if the club didn’t win the title.

Of course, the poll turned out not to say anything of the kind; more than 80% of those polled would have held the board at least mostly accountable, but The Record reported only highlighted the votes of those who would not blame the manager or the players in any way … and that number, by the way, was still more than 40% of those polled.

The crazy thing is, I would never have bothered about The Record’s daft poll without them putting that incendiary “warning” headline on it … but having paid attention to it I was amused to find that it had measured the views of a mere 700 people.

I did say that the average Celtic site would have gotten more responses than that.

My mate Paddy Sinat proved it. Without the article trending on the news aggregators, and although he only ran the poll for one piece, he got a response three times bigger than that in a few hours … and in that one, of more than 2300 fans, 95% said they would blame the Celtic board and not the manager if we failed to win the title.

Is that a warning too?

On the same day, John Hartson asked the Celtic board to issue a statement in support of our manager; I wrote about how silly that idea was.

On top of that, Frank McAvennie had a rant about Greg Taylor which was widely scorned on social media and in the blogs.

Oh yeah … and Alex Rae talked about how refs weren’t biased, Ian Murray predicted that we might finish fourth in the league and Kris Boyd ranted about our title chances; it was as if the press went to every one of our enemies on the same day and asked them what they thought.