Hutton’s “Warning” To Celtic Keeper Over VAR Is Plainly Idiotic.

The thing with this job is that you are constantly surrounded by media swill.

It is sent to me constantly, or I find it myself trawling through the forums and the aggregators looking for actual news to write about. Day after day there is the kind of thing I want to write about here; comments from Alan Hutton about our goalkeeper.

Hutton, as you know, is one of the new darlings of the media.

They think this guy is worth reporting on.

Every word that comes out of his mouth, no matter how ridiculous, ends up spread around as though it were Holy Writ. When the media complains about the blogs constantly running them down and when they debate the lowering of the tone of the national debate they want to look in the mirror and question the amount of coverage they give to halfwits.

I don’t know whether his comments yesterday were serious and just stone stupid and ignorant or if all he did was attempt to stir the soup – I suspect the former but you can never rule the latter out – but I do know they weren’t worth anyone repeating.

He has watched the highlights from our game at the weekend and plucked out a single incident and tried to push it into the spotlight. That he has failed is largely because the media has been focussed on promoting other nonsense, like the Juranovic lies.

His contention was that some innocuous incident in the game involving Hart barging a player, with his hands up, could have been looked at by VAR. He appears not to know that keepers play most of the game with their hands up.

Was he screaming for a penalty? No-one else was.

Was he suggesting that the incident constituted serious foul play, which is the only other thing VAR really looks at?

The incident certainly didn’t reach that threshold or anything like it.

So what in God’s name is this clown talking about?

Hart will have to “be careful” in the future? Of what? Of numpties like him dreaming up nonsense like this? Not a single hack highlighted this incident before he did. Not one, not even the Usual Suspects.

Honest to God, this is the sort of thing that drives me nuts.

This incident wasn’t worth even a second glance, but this muppet has looked at it 100 times and found something about it that he doesn’t like. This is why I lose my rag at the media time and time again, because a couple of their outlets published this idiotic story yesterday instead of ignoring it.

It’s not my job to ignore this stuff.

It’s my job to target it and those who write it.

Hutton is a joke, of course, but still this has to be treated semi-seriously as an attack on our player. It’s not the only daft one we’ve seen this week … but it is the dumbest.