Deplorable Hacks Are Falling Over Themselves Hoping For A “Celtic Injury Crisis.”
Soccer Football - Scottish Premiership - Celtic v Ross County - Celtic Park, Glasgow, Scotland, Britain - March 19, 2022 Celtic's Georgios Giakoumakis celebrates scoring their fourth goal to complete his hat-trick REUTERS/Russell Cheyne
Look at the headlines today and yesterday and what do you see? Celtic in an “injury scare” or the papers trying to dream one up. Today it’s about Giakoumakis, and how the Greek’s are monitoring him after he’d had a scan on his thigh that revealed nothing wrong.
Nothing wrong. They are monitoring him just in case.
But the media wants that to be a bigger story, and so they are talking about how Celtic are “in a sweat” over it.
No, we’re actually not.
The scan says there is no problem and if the Greeks are being a little over-caution let’s be honest here; that’s not something any of us are going to squeal about.
I’ll take their word for it, and those doing the scan, over the barely concealed glee of the Scottish media. The big guy is going to be just fine for when we need him.
Aaron Mooy has been sent home by Australia.
The press are speculating about him being injured, but he’s one of a number of players who has been allowed to leave so that the might prepare for upcoming domestic fixtures. Again, nothing to see.
We all know that Turnbull was withdrawn for Scotland after picking up a knock.
That’s a concern, but a lesser one because the midfield is the one area where we could afford to have a player or two out. O’Riley and Hatate and McGregor are our first picks most weeks, so provided it’s not an injury to one of them then we’re in good shape regardless.
Which brings me to the drooling the other day when Hatate was not selected for Japan.
Was he injured? Was it possible we’d lost one of our top midfielders?
Certainly, you got the impression that people in the media were hoping that he was. They were the only people speculating about an injury; others were just raging he wasn’t in the side.
Our media is a disgrace at times. They would love nothing more than to write about a new Celtic “injury crisis.” In fact, one player has been withdrawn from his squad because of an injury and all the rest appear to be fine.
Sorry to spoil a good story for them.