Celtic Striker Responds To Ibrox Idiot Who Called Him “Disrespectful” Last Week.

In the run up to the weekend, there was a lot of fantasy thinking in the media about how the game might go. Amidst it all we were told we should watch out for Aaron Ramsey.

That he scored is neither here nor there to me. He was pretty anonymous throughout and as he was signed to make this big impact on the campaign I can confidently state that he’s been a failure.

The other nonsense, of course, was from Ryan Jack.

But it was the self-pitying kind of nonsense that so often characterises the behaviour of those at Ibrox.

His club simply does not like criticism, no matter how deserved, no matter how minor and in the run up to the match he was whinging about the comments Giakoumakis made about us having the better team and the better players.

Jack seems to be labouring under that standard Ibrox misapprehension that his club is due some respect that they never give to others. It’s okay for their players to talk all sorts of bombastic tripe and make all manner of absurd predictions, but when others do it out come the violins and the chatter is all about who isn’t giving them their due.

Giakoumakis didn’t say anything particularly controversial. It’s nothing that a lot of commentators aren’t being forced to look at, finally, as the facts come more into focus; we are Scotland’s biggest club and with a settled squad and a top manager we’re only going to get better. Giakoumakis is not crowing for nothing. His comments are justified.

Today he has sought to assure people that he wasn’t being disrespectful, not that he needed to except to satisfy a handful of hacks and the pitiful Ibrox club.

“I didn’t make these comments to make anyone angry or feel disrespected by me,” he said. “But I said what I was believing for my team. I believe this time that we played better as a team, that is the only thing I said … Every player can say that his team is the best, I don’t think this is bad.”

No-one really does, and if it hadn’t been a Celtic player who said it the comments would have generated no headlines at all, but Jack had a willing audience amongst the hacks, their ranks swollen with ex-Ibrox players, and who took offence to the Greek.

They are offended by everything, but I would defy anyone to show us where their side has performed better than ours this season. Which of their players would be guaranteed to start in our team? Can you name any one of them?

No, neither can I.