Miller’s Comments On Celtic Park Are Shocking. The Media’s Spin Is Even Worse.

Kenny Miller was on a radio station down south this weekend as he continues to grow his media profile, another in a long line of talentless clods given their start by virtue of having played football at Ibrox and hankering after a return there one day.

You know, I used to like this guy.

For the first couple of years after he left Celtic, even whilst he was still at Ibrox, he spoke about our club with the utmost respect and never had a bad word to say about his.

But perhaps that was his putting on a show. Or perhaps he’s simply putting one on now and pandering to the lowest common denominator.

I really don’t care what it is.

Recently, he’s rushed to embrace the hateful persona of almost every Scottish based player who ever spent time over there.

Today he could have talked about the football, the spectacle, the way the game will present the two best teams in the country and maybe he did that but above it and around it and run through it was the desire to push Ibrox’s narrative about this “mutual decision” not to take tickets for the game.

Oh he didn’t discuss that at any length, but when he talked about the alleged behaviour of our fans towards McCoist the last time he was at Parkhead he knew what he was doing. Presenting the audience with an image of Celtic Park as an unsafe environment in the way our club’s decision to refuse tickets for their ground labels theirs that way.

The difference is, their ground is. As has been demonstrated in a recent court case and several other high profile incidents. It is at Ibrox, let’s not forget, where they refused a broadcast journalist entry on the grounds that they were unable to guarantee his personal safety. Perhaps Miller wants to come and check out the cut on our coach’s head?

His is a particularly slippery, and insidious, claim which the media, of course, has amplified to the max. They are screaming of how McCoist was “threatened at Celtic Park” but Miller, whose comments are bad enough, doesn’t even say that.

Those headlines are even more disgusting because they don’t have a direct quote from McCoist to that effect but a second hand one which says he “felt” threatened, not that he actually was. That’s an important distinction the media never bothered to make.

Miller didn’t care about the perception or the spin. He set out to be as inflammatory as he could be short of branding Celtic Park a free-fire zone and the media did the rest.

But honestly, if these Peepul want a discussion about stadium safety then I’m all for it. Even better, let’s have a chat about how they treat the media. It’s not our club which has a history of intimidating journalists or banning them or charging them at press conferences … we’re game any time someone wants to have a proper debate on these issues.

In the meantime, Miller continues to sink further and further in my estimation.

That was a gutter-ball today and he ought to be ashamed. But if he had any shame, of course, he’d never have said such a stupid and irresponsible thing in the first place.