Sky Sports colleague calls out Kris Boyd’s tasteless McGregor comment

Davie Provan has distanced himself from the comments that Kris Boyd made about Callum McGregor. 

The former Celtic winger has over 30 years experience in the media, graduating from covering Scottish football for Sky Sports through to being one of their top authorities on the EPL. 

Along the way Provan has been a regular newspaper columnist, delivering a hard hitting column for the News of the World then the Sunday Sun where he went after the big issues without going close to overstepping the mark. 

Boyd has been playing with fire in his comments about Celtic players and fans in recent times, following the Glasgow derby his comments in The Sun were way below the belt as he questioned why no opponents had tested out Callum McGregor’s face mask. 

Discussing those comments on Go Radio, the Daily Record reports Provan saying: 

What I will say, is in my time if there was an Old Firm game and a Rangers player was playing with a mask, there is no way we’d be treating him any differently. 

We’d make sure he knew we weren’t going to do him any favours because he had a mask on.  You would want to put a physical pressure on him, you would want to take advantage of any possible weakness in an Old Firm. 

Having said that… I would certainly not want to see anybody suggesting that somebody should’ve come and smashed Callum McGregor, for example, or tried to hurt him, or make the injury any worse. I certainly would not condone that. 

Last night Boyd reacted to Celtic’s tweet by explaining the context of his comment, there was no apology.