Bitter Hack Uses Celtic To Hide From A Proper Article Discussing Ibrox’s Fan Shame.

The Sunday Mail’s resident bitter, old Celtic hater is at it again today, with a shocking piece. He opens it up by pointing his finger at Celtic’s perceived “vulnerabilities” and then he praises the Ibrox manager. You know why this is unusual and justifies an article on him?

Because he does it in a piece which is, ostensibly, about the sickening chants directed at Martin Boyle last weekend. “(Ibrox fan) chant an affront to human decency and alien behaviour must perplex club’s sophisticated leader” is the headline.

The piece barely scratches the surface of that.

It is cowardly of him to say the least that he has framed at least part of the article around us and our form when the headline maintains that those chants are the subject matter. In fact, those chants are mentioned in passing, and he only mentions them at all because he wants to say something nice about Clement. It’s another anti-Celtic rant.

This is how he opens it.

“Philippe Clement says there is “zero challenge” for him with regard to motivating his players sufficiently well to win … a domestic Treble.

Should they accomplish that feat there will be zero tolerance among the Celtic support for the side who started the season as Treble holders and finished it trophyless.

Tolerance is an optional extra within Scottish football, mainly conspicuous by its absence on a historical basis. How embarrassing would it be for Celtic to lose everything they once had to a club who sacked their manager Michael Beale seven league games into the season and had at one point trailed Brendan Rodgers’ side by eight points in the league? And lost the first two Old Firm games of the season to their greatest rivals into the bargain.”

You can see straight away what the actual intent behind this piece is, and you can see just as clearly what the article is not. It is not a real exploration of those disgusting chants at Easter Road.

In fact, the article offers a bizarre alibi for the Ibrox boss’s failure to call out those chants. The writer maintains that the Belgian must be baffled, and even troubled, by the cesspit that surrounds him, and then lauds him as intelligent and academic. But he then trashes him own argument by essentially suggesting that the Ibrox boss is somehow living in blissful ignorance of all the hatred that surrounds him and which is baked into that club’s DNA.

Which is absolute garbage, as he certainly knows full well.

The Ibrox boss is simply doing what every boss who ever worked at that stadium has done; he’s chosen the path of least resistance. He knows full well what those songs are and what they are about. Tell me how an intelligent, academically qualified man fails to understand chants wishing a rival player dead?

Why didn’t he make a clear and definitive statement condemning them?

That would have been a meaningful article, one that basically said “most people think you are a good and decent man; why didn’t you act like it last weekend?”

But of course, the writer of this dirge was never going to do that, and instead he offered that pitiful stunted defence of the Ibrox boss, and that’s a clear sign that all this article ever was intended to do was praise Clement whilst also having a pop at us.

The truly serious issue which the headline suggested he’d tackle was no more than an afterthought, thrown in there as filler. He opens the piece talking about us, and about how fans are unforgiving; am I crazy or is there a clear inference here that a little restlessness in the stands and vile, even evil, chants about a player lying prone on the ground are on the same spectrum of supporter behaviour? Nothing could be further from the truth.

Nobody really wants to take this issue seriously, and we should not expect that from one of the people who has consistently ignored it. His Clement love-affair is hilarious when you place it in context with his drooling over The Mooch and Van Bronckhorst before him.

At the same time, his obsession with charting everything he perceives as being wrong at Celtic long ago became tiresome, even if he is just stating the obvious.

His condemnation of the Ibrox support has no teeth because he limits it to a couple of paragraphs and because he hasn’t put pressure on the club over it. He continues to push this “small minority” garbage as well, and we’re all aware that this is not the case. He and his profession have been hiding behind this stuff for years and this was not a serious effort to change that.

This was an article slagging us, with a couple of other things thrown in to disguise that fact. This joker hasn’t even done that particularly well. His article is a gutless fraud … much like its writer.

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