CELTIC FAN IN COURT: YET MORE REVISIONISM FROM THE S*N
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Jul 19
- 2 min read
Updated: Jul 20
You can tell a lot about a newspaper and its moral center, or lack thereof, by which stories they chose to play up and which ones they seek to sweep under the proverbial rug.
Such was the case once again in The S*n, as they devoted an entire article today to the utterly idiotic and absolutely unacceptable actions of ONE Celtic fan.
The individual in question appeared in court to answer a “breach of the peace” charge, for gesturing towards Rangers fans at the Glasgow Derby on May 4th, in a way that mocked the victims of 1971’s Ibrox Disaster.
Single Celtic Fan is, Rightly, Named and Shamed, but The S*n Totally Ignores Everything Else That Happened that Day
The S*n offers only a one-line, fleeting mention to Celtic’s immediate and unequivocal banning of this moronic individual from Celtic Park for life. However, in their usual willingness to reprint every work that comes out of Ibrox, unedited, like the good little loyal lapdogs they are, the article then goes on to devote a further 4 paragraphs to Rangers own statement from that day in full.
Of course, Rangers’ statement makes no mention of their own fans threatening Celtic fans, unfurling a huge banner branding them “scum” and encouraging Rangers fans to "take aim" at them. Hundreds of home end supporters duly obliged, throwing missiles at the Celtic support throughout the game.
Then there are the bottles and other objects thrown at Celtic goalkeeper Viljami Sinisalo and other Celtic players throughout the game. The media said nothing to condemn this, nor did Rangers. It took Sinisalo himself raising the issue at a press conference nearly a week later to provoke any kind of serious response from the media.
Now, for the avoidance of doubt, this not an attempt at whataboutery. The Celtic fan who acted that way on May 4th deserves to be punished. And indeed I would say he has been. By all accounts, he’s lost his job, been ostracized socially, banned from Celtic Park for life, and now he has The S*n doing another hit piece on him.
All entirely deserved, for his despicable actions.
But let’s at least have some kind of consistency here.
If The S*n wants to get all preachy about this one individual’s sick actions, then I don't think it's unreasonable to expect an equally forceful condemnation of all the other, and in my opinion far more dangerous, activity that went on at Ibrox that day, almost all of it instigated by the Rangers support and still not fully condemned by the club.
But The S*n won’t do that of course, because scapegoating one person, when in truth thousands of people were totally out of order that day is the easy path. It’s the path of the bully, the coward. And it’s consistently the path that this newspaper has chosen throughout its entire, repugnant existence.
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