Calum Crowe is anticipating five difficult weekends as Celtic close in on their ninth treble, the most tedious ever according to the Daily Mail reporter.
Hoops fans reading his opinion piece were delighted to uncover the level of pain and distress that the greatest ever period of domination is causing some within Scottish football.
Crowe should be living the dream, being paid to watch, cover, observe and report on Scottish football, it would be a dream job for thousands. At this time of the year around 50,000 Celtic fans are preparing to dig out around £700 to watch 19 matches on unspecified dates next season with maybe a quarter of those games during December and January.
And then there are the European and cup matches on top that won’t leave much change out of £1,000.
Over the piece this season looks exceptional, Celtic are breaking all sorts of record best summed up by Daizen Maeda’s six goals scored at Hampden, and I’m sure Crowe will never forget that horrible empty feeling of despair when the Celtic forward tucked away a penalty at Hampden in December. It was so good that Super Jack Butland never got near it.
Over three matches Celtic fans have cheered 19 goals at Hampden with a special cheer for Ridvan Yilmaz’s shoot-out effort that Kasper Schmeichel kept out the net.
Anyone finding that tedious should perhaps be looking for another job, whether Crowe likes it or not the bookies will be offering very sport odds on Celtic winning a treble again next season.
Sorry, Brendan, but this is going to be the most TEDIOUS Treble of all time https://t.co/Y3diMRldRe
— Mail Sport (@MailSport) April 22, 2025
After the deflections of the fakeover, a run in Europe and having an uber staunch management team in the Ibrox dugout reality has bitten legacy media over the last week.
A team dubbed Pathetic Bilbao by a long standing Scottish pundit put an end to the Thursday night nonsense, Barry Ferguson wants back to the comfort zone of being a Club Ambassador while Celtic look like they might be rediscovering top form in the race to the finishing line of a momentous season.
Already they have surpassed the trophy total of both Ibrox clubs, by 3pm on Saturday #title55 could be secured with no sign of letting up.
Rather than attempt an objective look at a side smashing records for fun Crowe has let all of his anger flow, the sort of content that he will have been pouring over on his favourite message boards.
In the aftermath, assessments of such a horribly one-sided contest were never likely to be the main talking point.
Had it been a boxing match, the referee would have stopped it long before the end of the 90 minutes as a punch-drunk St Johnstone side could defend themselves no longer.
The game itself became an irrelevance. Instead, Rodgers was asked to contemplate his own place in the history books and the landmark that is now within his grasp.
Kind of summed up the pain that the Daily Mail reporter went through on Sunday.
Across all strands of the media similar sentiments are being expressed in between the trashing of Arne Engels and Adam Idah.
It is as if they are trying to blank out the £4.5m committed to Lens for Oscar Cortes this summer.
A similar waste to the £6.5m spent on Danilo who is only two years into a five year contract, at least Butland’s deal only runs until May 2027 as he watches on jealously at Liam Kelly.
Sport is about winners and losers, Scottish football is deeply tribal, Celtic fans are enjoying an awesome period, watching a manager on course to make it 12 trophy wins out of 13, denied a clean sweep by Alan Muir.
Crowe’s Daily Mail anger and despair hammers another nail into the coffin of old media, he has racked up the clicks and attention but at the cost of credibility.
Celtic fans are streetwise to this, they have plenty of alternative media outlets, the Internet Bampots have created that and are growing more influential as legacy outlets crash through the floor.
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How can fast flowing attacking football be tedious. Get a grip and not a gripe, you sound like a sad bitter loser.
— 3rdFrame (@The3rdFrame) April 22, 2025
Desperation from this right wing rag. Watching @CelticFC is far from tedious. Your “journalist’s” would give anything to have the titles and cups we have had. Only time the club from Ibrox was successful was due to EBTS in their lifetime.
— Senior (@elsenior7151) April 22, 2025
That’s one bitter article 😂 Watch us celebrate every trophy like it’s the last one and tell us if we think it’s tedious
— Chris O’Donnell (@chris_odee) April 22, 2025
Are you ok Calum?
— Francis S Hughes 🍀 19th century terrorist bastard (@SocialistBhoy) April 22, 2025
Can feel the pain with this headline. 🖕🖕🖕🖕
— K.R🍀🍀 (@KRBhoy) April 22, 2025
— Rossidy (@rossidyy) April 22, 2025
Absolutely pishing the league and having it wrapped up before January.
Beating your biggest rival on penalties after a 3-3 draw in a cup final to become the worlds most successful club.
Marching to the cup final by only letting in 1 goal in the competition.
Aye. Tedious. 🙄
— Captain Hindsight 1️⃣1️⃣9️⃣ (@CaptainHin38747) April 22, 2025
Oh dear, is somebody’s favourite team still simply the second best?
Bless.— Andy Borland (@AndyBorland4) April 22, 2025
Sorry Mail Sport, it aint, get it up ye 🍀
— GHCeltic 🍀🏴🇮🇪🇺🇦 (@celtic_gh) April 22, 2025
Everything’s boring and tedious and predictable and not good for the game when Celtic Are winning things 😂 hilarious man.
— Jamie Logan (@jamielogan1992) April 22, 2025
It’s always going to be a “tedious treble” to the Daily Mail !! If and when Celtic win it !!
— Gary Bowie (@Gazb_72) April 22, 2025
