David Martindale Doesn’t Speak For Anyone At Celtic With His “Divine Right” Garbage.

What is the media’s fascination right now with everything that spills forth out of the mouth of convicted drug dealer and Phil Mitchell look-alike David Martindale? Does this guy offer insight or wisdom that others simply don’t possess?

No, he doesn’t. He’s a toe-rag whose presence in our national game is a joke and an embarrassment and whose brand of anti-football takes the sport decisively backwards.

Today he’s in the papers again offering a clownish statement about how no club in the league has “divine right” to expect points except for Celtic. Eah? He should leave us out of whatever game it is he thinks he’s playing here. That is not the prevailing view inside Parkhead or at Lennoxtown; we treat the opposition with a bit more respect than that.

If we went into games believing in some “divine right” to victory we’d have a lot less of them, and he knows it so I don’t know who he thinks he’s speaking for here. That kind of goonish, cartoonish statement should be called out instead of indulged in our press.

It is not a reflection on how Celtic sees the rest of the league, and that’s a point I am certain than Ange will be at great pains to make tomorrow if he’s asked about these daft remarks. He will make sure that the message is loud and clear.

Prior to the Livingston game, I wrote that Martindale should be ignored when he was describing us as the benchmark and all that other stuff. He thought his team were going to get something, and I said that I thought if we won comfortably that he would soon revert to type; giving us no credit, making excuses for his team, moaning about decisions.

He then had a pop at Ange for talking about that Hellish plastic pitch.

He did all of that, right on cue. Now we’re getting this. I don’t know what it is that he’s up to, but I do know that nobody at Celtic will play along.