Yeah, The Scottish Daily Express Hates Celtic. We Get It Already For God’s Sake.

There are newspaper writers who hate our club. This much we know already. But there are also entire newspapers which have a passionate detestation of us, and foremost amongst them is The Scottish Daily Express which appears periodically on the football news aggregator sites under our name, and every time it is does it is for something negative.

I’m not joking. I’m not even exaggerating. Their dislike of Celtic is obvious and undisguised. The latest headline to appear on the aggregators from their deplorable right-wing rag reads thus; “Celtic thug chased ‘gloating’ Rangers supporter, attacked him with a screwdriver and stole his car”. This is from an incident which happened two years ago and was penned by their “court reporter.”

And it’s clear looking at that and from their previous output that the word has gone out over there, and particularly in light of the days and days of bile we got from them over the Queen’s death, that any anti-Celtic story its writers can find will get a prominent spot.

Look it’s not uncommon for a newspaper in this country to have a pro-Ibrox stance, but this is not that. This is a distinctly anti-Celtic slant, and you have to remember that this comes from the top of the house. They now consider it a point of policy to attack us whenever they can, because don’t forget that it was not just Celtic fans who came in for criticism during the week of “national mourning” but the club itself.

They believe that Celtic is a uniquely evil institution, profoundly anti all the things that their editors and their alleged readership believes in. We’re pro-immigrant, our fans are left wing, there’s the Irish Republican connection which is enough to make them detest and despise us … and they blame the club in no small part for “allowing this” to go on.

I detest that rag as much as it detests us.

The Express is a deeply bigoted newspaper, not just right wing but flirting, at times, with ideas from the far-right. I always think that when people like this are attacking you that you’re doing something right. That doesn’t always hold true, of course, because there are times when we deserve stick, but as a rule of thumb I’m quite comfortable with it.