DAILY RECORD JOTA INJURY REPORT IS TOTALLY IRRESPONSIBLE JOURNALISM
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- May 3
- 2 min read
Celtic will, I believe, win tomorrow.
However, tomorrow and indeed in the Scottish Cup Final to come later this month, if we win, we will have to do so without Jota.
That is a blow, no doubt about it.
On his day, Jota is arguably our most naturally gifted player.
However, all teams have to overcome injuries to players at points throughout a season.
That’s football. In recent times, we have navigated crucial games and won important points without the likes of Callum McGregor, Reo Hatate and Cameron Carter-Vickers for extended periods due to injury.
Wording of Daily Record Jota Injury Story is Way Out of Line
Jota or no Jota, Celtic should still have more than enough to see off an extremely poor Rangers side.
That didn’t stop the Daily Record from gleefully reveling in yet more mischief-making and needless hyperbolae regarding Jota's injury.
According to An article published in this morning’s edition Daily Record Jota’s injury isn't just an injury, it's an “explosion”.
They stretched this tedious metaphor still further. Apparently, Jota’s injury is “the shrapnel that fires across every department of the club.”
Considering what’s happening in several countries around the world at the moment, is this really the kind of language we need to see in a national newspaper?
He’s a footballer, with a damaged knee. Jota will get the very best care available and, hopefully, he’ll be back in 6 months. It’s not a “crisis”, it’s not a “cataclysm”, it’s a knee injury. That’s all.
This isn’t a war; it’s a football match.
Maybe if the reporter who wrote this was instead forced to spend Sunday night covering all the after-match casualties getting sewn up at his local Accident and Emergency ward, he wouldn’t be so flippant in his use of overtly militaristic invective.
There’re enough people in Glasgow freaking out over this ultimately meaningless match already, without the Daily Record throwing needless “bombs and bullets” rhetoric on top.
The stupid thing is, the person who wrote this attention-seeking garbage proceeds to take apart his own argument just a couple of paragraphs later.
The point of his opening rant, apart from trying to be as offensive as possible, to grab attention, was to suggest that Celtic need to urgently sign another winger now Jota is possibly out until Christmas.
He then goes on to list the seemingly inadequate replacements we have available. James Forrest, Daizen Maeda, Yang Hyun-Jun and Nicholas Kuhn.
Each one of those players, yes even Yang, would comfortably walk into our opposition’s starting eleven tomorrow and be a star.
If one or more of the above depart in the summer, then we may need to revisit this argument. But for now, this just pointless troublemaking from a rag of a newspaper.
Words matter, and regardless of what team they support, I expect the writers at a national newspaper to be more responsible in their choice of phrasing.
We deserve better from our media.
