Kris Boyd isn’t the brightest, not even in Tarbolton.
As a pundit he is virtually unwatchable. Always trying to be edgy.
Thinking that he is noising up Celtic fans when he is only providing fresh content to the Banter Years.
From the high-fiving over signing Aaron Ramsey to talking up the brilliance of Russell Martin.
Boyd has the uncanny knack of getting almost everything wrong.
Ranting in the Sky Sports studio the other guests get an easy time of it.
Pre-match most things are sweetness and light. After another laboured performance from the Ibrox Tribute Act he is in meltdown mode.
But credit where it is due. Broken clock and all that. Boyd hasn’t joined in the meltdown that accompanied the announcement of the post split SPFL Premiership fixtures.
Ewen Cameron was first out of the blocks.
Pretending that he is a Jambo, hating Celtic is his main footballing interest.
Jambo-bear plays to the gallery, his audience is the wildest elements of Ibrox fan media where everything in life is part of a grand conspiracy.
The liquidation of Rangers in 2012 wasn’t down to Dave Murray and his illegal payment methods. It was masterminded by the Vatican through agents deep inside HMRC.
Ally McCoist joined in this morning on TalkSPORT.
The cheeky chappy can’t comprehend the notion that in a League all clubs play 19 matches at home and 19 away.
AND THEN YOU HAVE LEVEL HEADED KRIS BOYD!
Against that level of stupidity Boyd was the voice of reason as he discussed the split fixtures on the Warm Up podcast.
5 minutes, Sutton to Boyd ‘You are such an idiot’
Boyd said:
I think it’s mostly as we all expected really, Celtic playing Hearts and Rangers at home. I don’t know any club that would really have a gripe.
There are murmurings about Hearts but I don’t get that. Hearts knew they had to play Celtic away, if they go there and do that they will stand a fair chance of winning the league.
Which contrasted starkly with the early morning rambling of McCoist:
Well, they (Celtic) are running the thing up here, aren’t they? That’s why. They’re absolutely running it.
They’ve got four of their last six at home and we’ve got four of six away, you couldn’t make it up. They’re playing Hearts in the final game of the season.
On The Warm Up, Steven Naismith veered into conspiracy territory with:
On the split, I do think it has it’s advantages and disadvantages. Timing of the games, who you are playing and when, but i think for the three teams there is not somebody who is blowing teams away, especially when they take the lead as we have seen in recent fixtures.
I think there will be twists and turns in it. I think Celtic having two at home out of the first three, Rangers and Hearts having two away out of the first three and when the kick-offs are will play a part.
THE REALITY IS ACTUALLY QUITE BORING
Naismith knows that the fixtures are fair. Instead he decided to air a gripe about the dates and kick off times. Decided by Sky Sports, the company behind The Warm Up, the broadcaster that employs Boyd and Sutton
All of the conspiracy chat is designed to put pressure on match officials.
John Beaton, David Dickinson, Steven McLean, Andrew Dallas and Greg Aitken are certain to be influential. And heavily used.
Celtic were meant to be done and dusted after losing at Dundee United. They were meant to kick off at Dundee trailing by eight points. Tonight they are three points. With four of their six matches to be played at home.
There is a very real chance that a seriously weakened Celtic could win this season’s SPFL title. They might win the Scottish Cup.
If Celtic end up with a double it will say much more about Derek McInnes and Danny Rohl than anything else.
Celtic fans know that they are watching a seriously inferior team to last season. On every metric.
And the anger of McCoist, Cameron and Naismith is the sweetest sound of this week.
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