Abysmal Click-Bait Site Publishes Ludicrous Anti-Celtic Story … From Alan Hutton.

Good God, I know that international week is sometimes seen as being a bit slow for some people – although, I’ll tell you, this week hasn’t felt like it – and that there’s a tendency for some non-Celtic sites to go over the score in their quest to find something to write.

But the one that calls itself Football Insider – a site which draws its articles mainly from the comments of ex-players considered too stupid for Go Radio, and ex-Ibrox employees too dumb for the BBC sofa (ponder that if you will) – has to be the worst for the basement level quality of its product.

There are bad sites all over the internet, but even the worst of them can have something to endear it to you, whether that’s a single writer or a point of view or a nice design or whatever that is, but Football Insider just stinks to high heaven, it has no redeeming features at all, not one scintilla of quality, not one reason that I can see for why it needs to exist.

Let’s start with the obvious; it’s not really a football site at all. It’s a gossip site, and that might even be appropriate if it genuinely did publish accurate information. It may have occasionally stumbled onto a decent prediction, or made a good guess, from time to time but the truth is that it does not possess a shred of actual knowledge and so its “gossip” amounts to nothing more than guesswork. That might also be forgivable if the people doing the guessing or the writers writing them up were at least intelligent. None of that is the case either.

Its name, and its founding claim, that it has sources who can get the stories from inside the club, ought to be an offence under the Trades Description Act; the idea that it has a single person even near what happens at Parkhead is laughable.

There was a story, some years back, in the mainstream press, about how Celtic sacked a worker who had leaked stuff to the media that he literally pulled out of the bin. Football Insider would kill for a source so high on the Celtic food chain as that.

Which is why it employs about goons like Alan Hutton to provide “insight” on us, and of course it is biased nonsense with no merit whatsoever. Even if Alan Hutton were not just another ex-Ibrox player struggling to master The Art Of Boiling A Kettle, almost everything that comes from him is speculation which even the direst fan forum would reject.

Today my old man sent me their “effort” from yesterday; a clickbait piece of utter rubbish so absolutely contemptible that I cannot stress enough how bad it is. It’s an article about Kyogo walking right up the tunnel last weekend, and how this suggests that he was upset or angry or has some personal issue. It doesn’t even reach the level of garbage, it’s something that if you mentioned it around the table in the pub there’d be a sixty second discussion and nobody would even remember it the following day. It really is dreadful.

And today’s article on Celtic – imaging how the team might look in the 2024-25 campaign – doesn’t even rise to the level of that. It truly finds the bottom of the barrel and keeps on digging down. That website should be shunned by every fan. You can feel IQ points being deleted from your score the longer you read one if its pieces.