The press here is a flat-out disgrace in the way they chase headlines, even at the expense of the truth.
This morning, one of our sites, Celts Are Here, has accused Football Scotland of twisting a statement by Callum McGregor to produce a statement he very plainly did not make. I read their piece, then I read the piece by that Daily Record Lite rag, and the Celts Are Here guys are 100% correct to be pissed off at this.
Because they have Football Scotland bang to rights here.
They have done exactly what they are accused of, and in fact it’s not even up for the least debate.
It’s blatant. Read this headline, and understand it is reflective of the narrative they are trying to spin.
“Callum McGregor ‘going for 55’ as Celtic captain makes cheeky (Ibrox) reference”.
That appears clear-cut, right? If you read that headline you wouldn’t even have the least doubt that McGregor had, indeed, made a quip about how we’re going for our 55th title this year. Indeed, the writer – Blair Meikle – doesn’t just echo that headline but he endorses it.
“Callum McGregor will be ‘going for 55’ with Celtic this season – in more ways than one,” he writes. “McGregor managed to slip a cheeky reference to that in when talking about the monumental amount of games he plays.”
Except that he didn’t. McGregor made a reference to “playing 55 games” but that was it.
And this was not, as this eejit is claiming, any sort of reference to the Ibrox club in any way, shape or form. In fact, McGregor is talking sense. Four times in the last eight campaigns, Callum McGregor played a minimum of 50 matches, just for Celtic, in the course of a season.
And last season, he played 45 games for us and by my estimate another 10 for Scotland, which comes to – yes, you got it in one – 55. In fact, when you look at the number of games that McGregor has played in the last few years its astonishing that man is still going strong.
During a three year period – 2017/18 until 2019/20 – he played, just for Celtic, an absolutely mind-blogging 166 competitive games. This is why there’s now a debate going on about when people think he’ll do a Scott Brown and take the “Celtic first” decision not to play internationals.
So what did McGregor say that has generated that ridiculous headline and the article in which Meikle desperately jams words into his mouth?
“Am I up for another 55 games? Aye, for sure,” McGregor tells the interviewer. “Definitely. I feel fit and just can’t wait to get going. You look at the scenes at the end of last season. That’s what this club does to you – you celebrate every trophy like it’s the first. Success is so ingrained in the staff, the coaches, the players and the supporters.”
There is nothing – not one thing – in there that touches on the club from Ibrox in any way, shape or form.
These people are off their nut.
They are jumping at shadows.
Their paranoia is leaking out everywhere, and spreading in every direction and to read something about them into this is clear proof that we live in their heads rent free.
It’s also clear proof, not that it was needed, that our media lies routinely, constantly, about matters both great and small.
Which is why nobody trusts them at all.
No sooner have I put this up that The Celtic Way – THE CELTIC WAY – is repeating this same lie. What have I told you guys? THAT IS NOT A CELTIC FAN PUBLICATION. It is a mainstream publication following exactly the same path as the rest.
He must have obviously been asked first if he was up for playing 55 games this season
With all the goings on at the rangers, Cifuentes now away also, Tavs, Cantwell going, many more stories about distrust in the manager, losing the dressing room etc this could be their worst season ever in the spfl OR even worse outcome.
I know I have mentioned a few times they may be in a dogfight for 3rd place this season BUT with all the financials going on, groundwork costs (probably many hidden issues and large cost), Elite’s £9.5m due, Cost to rent Hampden and resurface it, loss of Ibrox revenue streams, no real money in for transferring players, distrust in the manager.
Check out how many sites are suggesting an Administration event. Has the board instructed their lackeys to put the word out.
The stars are aligning there are many fights on many fronts, can they survive? Looking increasingly unlikely over to you Phil…… 🙂
What about the one in the Record this morning about Kyogo being frustrated
The click bait headline compared to what he actually said is crazy
Yet they’ll be welcomed with open arms at Parkhead on flag day…
Yes – They’ll be sick as dogs but there they will be…
Can the yellow bar stewards in grey suits on our board not grow a pair and charge them £25,000 for the privilege like The Sevco Huns board did –
Say what you want about them but they’ve ten hundred fold more times the cadjones than our spineless fuckin charlatans will EVER possess !
Pffft. What utter rot. They are a disgrace to the profession.
Re: ‘The Celtic Way’ going with the same story…not in the least bit surprised, taking into account the ‘contributors’ that Ive seen on their youtube channel, or some of them anyway, well, one in particular….he would turn any proper Celtic fan off….
That the boy who looks like Eraserhead ?
Time we stopped giving interviews to these rags. Stopped buying them years ago.
It’s a short post – But one of the posts of the year Frank…
Stop giving interviews and stop buying them…
Proud of ya for helping to get them to the grave buddy !
Is there no regulator that can be asked to do something about certain ‘publications’ (we all know who they are), websites etc., etc., continually mis-quoting with intent and also uttering downright lies, day after day, week after week?
Is there something in hun DNA that makes it impossible for them to tell the truth?
You can laugh some of it off but some of it is an absolute outrage and needs to be officially challenged, but by whom?
Certainly newspapers at one time faced some scrutiny and accountability, does anyone know if this is still the case and if so to whom you would make contact.
I’d happily have these scum with all their myriad accusations and lies held up to the light and be made to openly apologise with a guarantee of no future, flagrant abuse of their privileged position and they ARE in a privileged position and even charge for their lies. It’s just not on!
The more problems R2ngers have off field, the more mibbery on field …Beaton, McLean and the other brothers will assist as always.
Brendan and his lawyer might be at the SFA again.
Does it make sense for Bennett to take them into Administration while hes owed millions. I think hed want his money back first.
C’mon Cal-Mac – Go for the FIRST 55 Titles in Scottish Football History…
And make that Pathological Scummy Scottish Football Media rat Blair Mikile suicidal…
Hopefully he then feed the need to jump off The Erskine Bridge, gets dragged downstream and caught in undergrowth and devoured by rats and maggots…
It would be so very apt wouldn’t it…
1) Because clearly he IS a rat…
And…
2) He clearly only has the intelligence of a maggot… (Apologies to all blowfly larvae out there by the way for the comparison) !
Pishin ma drawers clach. Say what you mean now and don’t hold back. HH
We all wish that admin 2 is catastrophic for them and as I’ve said in the past that if it does in fact happen then they should be kicked out of scottish football for good.
Their shithole of a stadium should be bulldozed, replaced by a aldi or lidl and new social housing.
The new supermarket will sell only jelly n iceream so they can keep their celtic supporting grandkids happy
Rangers don’t have a full 55 titles as their first was shared with Dumbarton
So Celtic will be ahead with more titles in 2025 with an actual 55, not 54 and a half