Boyd's Take on Celtic's Title Prospects

Kris Boyd has booked the weekend of April 5 and 6 off from Sky Sports.

The fun loving Sky Sports pundit fears that will be when Celtic will again be crowned as SPFL Premiership champions.

Winning their next three matches will ensure a title party, win their next two and Barry Ferguson’s side will have to win at Dundee and at home to Hibs to delay the inevitable.

To the outside, sane world it will be just another title for Celtic but for folk like Boyd this one carries extra significance/misery.

Since 2012 the lies got bigger. Already this season The World’s Most Successful Club myth has been dismantled, less than six months after that blow the number 55 will be getting used much less frequently.

From their arrival in the SPFL Premiership for the 2015/16 season the Tribute Act were banging on about 55, a number of no significance anywhere in the sporting world.

50 is a landmark, 60 less so, 10 is notable but 55? No one cared or cares but if that lot want to make a song and dance over 55, if they want to trash Glasgow city centre, if they want to vandalise statues over that number then it is only right to throw it back in their faces with interest. Boyd’s face in particular.

Back in 2016 he was still double dunting, lumbering around the pitch trying to score his second career goal against Celtic while climbing the ladder at Sky Sports.

Explaining a 5-1 defeat at Celtic he clutched at the comfort blanket that if Barrie Mackay had scored it would have been very different.

Celtic fans laughed at Boyd, they’ve been laughing ever since with the exception of the Phantom Season when strange things went on with testing, when bears weren’t allowed in to Ibrox to hurl abuse at Captain Disappointed and the Serial Losers.

That season was the highlight of Boyd’s broadcasting career, the four years since have been one long, never ending nightmare of Celtic successes, there is a better than even money chance that this season will finish up with the hoops celebrating a sixth treble in nine seasons.

30 minutes 20 seconds

Boyd: If they both keep winning (Celtic winning Sunday’s Derby) it will be St Johnstone, I’ve already

Gordon Duncan: Are you taking that weekend off?

Boyd: I’ve already put in for that weekend off. Yeah, 5^th, 6^th of April, do you think that I want to listen to you (turning to Sutton), you might need that cardboard cut out again! Yes, 6^th of April I’m off, I’m off, I’ve already sorted it, I’m off.

Boyd should be in place at Celtic Park on Sunday, probably alongside any two from James McFadden, Stan Petrov and Neil Lennon who all know the buttons to press with their colleague.

After a Derby victory Boyd’s post match meltdown is always a highlight for Celtic fans, no matter how jovial he is in the build up losing at Celtic Park surrounded by gloating Celtic supporters and employees is just too much.

His voice gets higher and higher, the other pundits just need to drop in a comment or two and off he goes into classic Boyd mode demanding a complete turnover of everything at Ibrox, except his wee Monster Munch buddie, Barry.

Sunday’s Derby match is just a warm-up event for Sky Sports but if Celtic win the pain will continue for Boyd, it’ll be 13 days later before they return to action away to Dundee where Billy Dodds can expect a hot reception having voted against a CVA trying to force another of his former clubs into liquidation.

On Monday Boyd will be required by Sky Sports and The Sun for a video interview from his padded cell, the gags are unlikely to be flowing as that dreaded number of 55 comes into sight for Scotland’s Most Successful Club.

Boyd expects Sunday’s Derby to finish as a draw.

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