Keevin’s Celtic Score Prediction Is Embarrassingly Un-Serious. It Is Trolling, Pure And Simple.

My mate texted me earlier today to tell me about the “outlier” prediction for how tomorrow will go. It is not a serious prediction, in my opinion. It was made by someone impossible to treat seriously for a start; Keevins, the yapping clown on Radio Clyde.

Recently, one of our fellow Celtic fan media sites – The Celtic Exchange podcast – turned out an outstanding production on the Fergus McCann takeover; it got rave reviews everywhere. I wish I could give it some. But I haven’t watched it, although I will.

All but one episode, and that’s an easy decision for me to make because there’s an entire one filled with Keevins self-aggrandising, and I simply won’t watch that.

I don’t want to hear him talk as if he was integral to saving this club; that was us, the fans.

Clyde gave Fergus airtime. Keevins conducted an interview with him.

Clyde have given a lot of people airtime over the years, and Keevins has interviewed plenty of people; these folk work in the media.

Their job is to break stories and cover the important people in them. He acts as though this was something exceptional; to him it might seem that way, because he’s so seldom actually done the job properly. In fact, it should be all in a days work for a real journalist.

I remember the Fergus interview. I also remember that Keevins and the paper he worked on were instrumental in undermining McCann and his revolution almost from the moment he was in the door. It was that paper which slapped him on the front page alongside Saddam Hussein. It wasn’t even the worst of their sins.

Now, I am sure that the episode in question is interesting, and I am certain – because everyone who has watched it has told me this – that the entire production is outstanding across the boards, and it is tremendous to see a fan media outlet put together something of such exceptional quality – the other guests on it, over its episodes, are uniformly excellent – but I won’t watch the Keevins episode because I cannot stand the guy, I think he’s become poisonously anti-Celtic, I think he’s a disgrace as a journalist, a moral coward, and he specialises now in trolling.

There’s nothing to credit him at all. And after today that shouldn’t even need pointing out.

His “prediction” for tomorrow is so outside of the mainstream that it’s piss-taking, it can’t be anything else, even for someone as thick as he is. He thinks that if Carter Vickers plays, we’ll lose 3-0. He thinks if Carter Vickers doesn’t, we’ll lose 4-0.

That’s not an outlier as much as it’s something he’s pulled out of his backside.

I would be surprised if he actually believed a word of that.

I mean, is it technically possible? Sure, although they’ve not beaten us in a meaningful league encounter for years. But we could have a dreadful, dreadful day and lose by that margin; I very much doubt it, but you never know.

But as a prediction for the game?

What’s he basing that on which is grounded in reality?

There’s nothing in the form of either team to suggest that it’s likely, even with the intervention of Beaton taken into account.

I think he does this stuff for no other reason than to get a rise out of people, and because he’s allowed his perspective on the whole club to become warped by the intensity of his dislike for certain people inside it because he is persona non grata within our walls.

The thing is, and he’d know this if he wasn’t such an arrogant arsehole, is that the contempt with which they treat him is wholly earned and richly deserved.

The truth is, he degrades his profession with garbage like this and is slowly but surely helping to destroy it. Some folk will say that his job is done if people like me are upset; they are wrong.

The joke’s not on me, I’m not listening to that radio show he’s on and I don’t read his abysmal paper unless someone draws my attention to it; I won’t even watch a fan media production of the most brilliant sort, about a subject I care about because it features him.

No, the joke is on everyone who does give this guy airtime and attention and pretends that he’s a credible individual, and I think that it’s really them he’s trolling here, and as long as they keep on doing it he’ll keep on laughing at them.