ANOTHER PREDICTABLE GLASGOW DERBY DAY CELTIC HATCHET JOB FROM THE DAILY RECORD

Just another day at the Record Sports Desk

There aren’t many sure things in today’s crazy world, but one thing remains constant. There are no depths to which the Daily Record won’t sink in their attempts to manufacture negativity around Celtic in the build up to a match against Rangers.

Today it’s the turn of Record rent-a-gub Scott Allan to stick the boot in.

Daily Record Runs Bitter Tirade from Failed Former Celtic Player in Glasgow Derby Build-Up

Allan claims that Celtic are stale, lacking invention and one-dimensional ahead of today’s Glasgow Derby match at Ibrox.

Still, I suppose, having only managed 13 games and no goals in the 4 years he was on the books at Celtic, if anyone would know what Celtic players lacking the necessary talents would look like, it’s him.

I know that probably sounds like a cheap shot, especially coming from someone whose football career peaked when he had a trial for Queens Park at age 16!

However, Scott Allan’s interview in today’s Record is replete with such cheap, unnecessary barbs. The article does the former Celt no favors and paints him as a small, bitter man, still resentful that his shot at the big time with Celtic didn’t work out.

I don’t think that was his intention at all when he made these comments. I think he himself might be quite annoyed when he sees the “Staleness has Struck Celtic” headline that has been slapped on this miserable excuse for a news story.

No, I don’t blame Scott Allan for this latest embarrassment to journalism. That responsibility lies solely with the Daily Record and their pathetic, agenda-driven excuse for journalism that they continue to peddle to the ever-dwindling gaggle of slack-jawed idiots still daft enough to buy what they are selling.

Allan makes a few solid points in his comments. Celtic do indeed need a refresh, and there are some players who just aren’t delivering at the moment.

But the issue remains clear here. There’s nothing in this article that we didn’t already know. This article offers nothing of journalistic merit, other than a chance to give a Celtic side still reeling from a shock European defeat and struggling to get new players in another kick while they are down.

And, like the two-faced, facile, performative puppets like they are, I’m sure we can expect the Daily Record to give us a similar hatchet job from a disgruntled ex-Rangers player tomorrow, if, as I hope is the case, Celtic give the Ibrox Tribute Act a good skelping.