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‘Despicable and disgusting’ ‘ignorant, hypocritical, personal, dangerous vitriol’ Fans line up to slam Boyd over Griffiths attack

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Kris Boyd crossed a number of lines last night as he tore into Leigh Griffiths following Celtic’s win away to Kilmarnock.

Mental Health issues are best avoided in punditry, if you want to venture in you do so sympathetically. It is a vast issue and no one should know that better than the former Kilmarnock striker

‘Getting Tour Head Back In The Game’ is the name of the charity that Boyd set up in 2016 after his younger brother took his own life.

On his website Boyd explains:

Life is not a bed of roses for sports personalities as much as one you believe, with this charity I want to aim to end the stigma with sports and mental health.

The charity has a number of workshops where Boyd and others such as Andy McLaren visit schools in Glasgow and Ayrshire to discuss mental health issues.

With his media platforms the former Scotland striker could be a real role model to help others. Unfortunately his dislike for Celtic is all consuming, his ‘nice guy/charity’ remit is cast aside when it comes to matters green and white.

Writing off Griffiths in December is the sort of thing pundits do, when Griffiths picks him out after scoring in successive games in January the bigger man takes it on the chin rather than launching into a fresh attack based on dubious facts.

The real facts were on the pitch at Rugby Park, if Griffiths continues his comeback his story is far more inspiring than someone holding mental health workshops during the day then slaughtering someone with those issues on national television.

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