Sky’s Scottish Coverage Is A Disgrace, And One Which Again Leaves Celtic Fans Cold.

Tonight’s game against Hibs should be live on TV. Sky has the option. But as with so often this season, they’ve chosen to be at Ibrox instead of covering Celtic. They will use the old refrain that they will be covering our game from Parkhead at the weekend, but do they expect a full tickertape parade for that or what? It’s trophy presentation day.

Already this season, Celtic fans have been forced, on several occasions, to do pay-per-view in order to watch their team, and as away ground allocations continue to shrink – thanks to the club across the city and their nonsense – this will become a bigger problem with every passing year. It makes you wonder what exactly our Sky subscriptions are worth.

Tonight the Hibs game is available for £12.99 on their PPV channel. Of course, I’ll purchase it. Because what other choice do some of us have? Sky’s coverage of our club this season has been absolutely shocking, leaving more holes in it that a Keith Jackson exclusive. Our fans have been well and truly done over by the broadcaster.

Look, I recognise there’s a certain reality here which a lot of people in England would love to confront; almost all of our games away from home are available in one way or another. I’ve long said that if we were part of the English setup we’d find that very few of them would be available to watch, and pay-per-view options aren’t even permitted.

At least up here we have that luxury.

But to be honest, we are paying through the nose to an organisation which holds the Scottish game back and treats it with utter contempt. When you see how much money is on offer south of the border it’s an absolute insult, and we continue to be screwed over.

Celtic should be fuming behind the scenes … but what is the point?

It’s the SPFL’s job to make sure Scottish fans are getting value from this piss-take of a contract.

And we’re just not, and you can see we’re not.

And Celtic fans are getting an especially bad hand dealt to us. It’s beyond a joke now.