Celtic Fans Know Kent Is A Cowardly Thug With Previous For Off-The Ball Brutality.

Last night, when I saw that the BBC match reporter had given Ryan Kent the man-of-the-match award for their cup semi final, I spent five minutes trying to think of what he had done during the game which could have inspired such a bizarre decision.

And then it was obvious.

Kent’s prior cult status with the Ibrox fans – before they realised what a waste of a jersey he is – rests on a single moment, a single cowardly act, against Scott Brown. Yesterday he lashed out at Liam Scales, a Celtic player on loan at Pittodrie. Perhaps that was what inspired that choice, I don’t know, but it was all I could come up with.

On a day when the media isn’t using the words “official interpretation” in relation either to the Giakoumakis decision or the one involving their own Ben Davies, that is what’s being bandied about in relation to Kent’s vicious moment of violence.

Interpretation. Was it really violent conduct or something else?

It’s a bit like asking whether or not you see Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as exactly that or a “special military operation”, which is the way that the Kremlin has tried to frame it.

We know what we watched.

It is pathetic to attempt to explain it away as something else, and trying to tell us that it was something else is a bit like Richard Pryor’s joke “I don’t care what you think you saw … you’re gonna believe me, or your lying eyes?”

Kent is a brute. The Brown incident is not the only example of it. I joke on this site often about him having one of those faces that would make you click on a Netflix documentary. I call him The Trailer Park Serial Killer because that’s the impression I always get looking at that sallow face, those cold eyes, those tattoos and because I remember that punch on our captain.

The hype that surrounds him as a player has long been misplaced.

He did very little of quality or of note in that match yesterday.

His goal against Celtic was decent, but it was the only thing he produced in the course of the game but it was enough to maintain the illusion that he has become some tremendous player since The Mooch came in.

The SFA has to take another look at that incident, and if they do I think they can only conclude that it was an act of neddish thuggery for which a suspension is in order.