Kris Boyd’s Wee Depressed Face Is The Added Bonus Of Celtic’s Last Ditch Winner.

For any football fan, anywhere, there is a genuine buzz around getting a last-minute winner. And when you’ve conceded a goal in injury time to drop points on a massive afternoon, and then go up the park and score one, that is probably as good as it gets.

Unless you are a Celtic fan.

If you are, then there is one more bit of pleasure to be wrung out of the experience, one more morsel of joy to be had, and it comes, if you’re watching Sky, from seeing the expression on Kris Boyd’s face at full time; the forced smile, the grin through gritted teeth, the knowledge that the guy is absolutely raging but trying to keep that hidden.

He’s not very good at it. Which is why it’s such a pleasure to see.

He thinks we got off with one today.

Of course, he does.

He will ignore our superiority over the course of the game, which was challenged only in the last ten minutes where we seemed grimly determined to make our own lives difficult. He will ignore the number of goals we scored late in games last season.

He will pretend not to know that this is how titles are won.

But he does know all that. He is painfully aware of it all.

And you could see it on his face.

His admission that he was dancing around celebrating the equaliser when we went up the park and scored the winner was like a red ribbon on the prize. Because you can picture that, can’t you? All too easily.

The TV and the radio are full of ex-Ibrox players, and they are amongst the stupidest people in broadcast booths in the country.

They have Mark Hateley on BBC Radio Scotland now and if you’ve ever heard him you know that’s a chore to listen to … but Boyd remains the dumbest, the worst, the most ridiculous and the least able to keep his bias in check.

I really wish that we weren’t subjected to this vacuous idiot, but if we are to suffer him it is fitting that he’s there to cover moments like that, to swallow back his bile and stare straight into the cameras, unblinking, stupid grin fixed to his face, struggling not to scream.

Aside from the winner itself, that was the highlight of the day for me.