DISGRACEFUL: THE S*N SLURS CELTIC LEGEND OVER COMPLETELY UNCONNECTED STORY
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- Jul 16
- 3 min read
Updated: Jul 17
Let me ask you this. You see a guy at a train station. He can’t access his online ticket because his phone has died. He’s had a few drinks, so things get a bit heated with the staff. Police come over, words are exchanged and the guy kicks off. Does any of this seem particularly unusual?
He ends up spending a night in the cells to sleep it off and contemplate his actions. Is there anything especially newsworthy about this?
Ask any regular police officer and they’ll tell you, this is the kind of petty, inconsequential nonsense they contend with on a daily basis. Most of the time it doesn't even result in an arrest. It certainly doesn't warrant editorial space in a national newspaper.
Celtic Legend Paul McStay Featured in Story that Had Nothing to Do with Him
However, in their ongoing desperation to find even the most tenuous of threads at which to pull against Celtic, The S*n read this police report and thought “wait a minute, this guy’s uncle played for Celtic nearly 30 years ago. In fact, he’s a Celtic legend.
“His dad is also a former player and was on the coaching staff, there’s our angle!”
Despite the fact that neither of these former Celtic players had anything to do with the incident in question, it is their faces and not that of the halfwit who got himself arrested that adorn this piece of “journalism”.
Welcome to the world of The S*n newsroom, where attention-seeking is the aim of the game and the facts don't matter!
The arrested man, 35 year old Marc McStay, son of former Celtic coach Willie McStay was, in the end, fined £1400. Aside from his night in the cells, no other charges were brought and the case is now closed. No doubt, he’s learned a valuable life lesson in the process.
But none of this is news-worthy. Like I already said, this literally happens every day in every major city the world over. It would not even register as important to the local village newsletter, let alone a national newspaper.
No, The S*n penned this article with one thing, and one thing only, in mind: to drag Celtic through the mud. They did so over a minor incident that had nothing to do with either the club or any of their staff, former and current.
Ironically, Paul McStay, who has somehow earned the largest picture on the entire page, wasn’t even on the same continent at the time. From what I understand, the Celtic legend, known to fans as The Maestro, now enjoys a quiet life looking after his business interests in Australia.
Hopefully, he’ll never even see this story.
Celtic however, will be fully aware of this story, and I really wish the club would do something about this. Far too often, these gutter rags drag our club’s name through the mud, based on the most obscure, tangential link back to the club.
It probably doesn't meet the legal definition of defamation, but that’s clearly the intent.
It’s high time this rag and all the buffoons who choose to write for it were banned from Celtic Park for good.
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