Sky Sports are standing by Kris Boyd despite his comments about Callum McGregor in midweek.
The former Kilmarnock striker joined Alex Neil in the Sky Sports studio at Ibrox as the official SPFL broadcaster covered today’s double header starting with Celtic’s visit to Fir Park.
Boyd’s dislike of Celtic was obvious on Wednesday night when his main half-time focus was on a non-existent head knock as he tried to find a way of disallowing Reo Hatate’s opening goal.
It was similar to his performance in December when he went on about a ‘stonewaller’ offside goal by Kyogo Furuhashi that repeated replays couldn’t confirm while fellow pundit Christophe Berra admitted that it was too tight to call.
On Thursday night Boyd overstepped the mark in his column in The Sun where he admitted his disappointment that none of Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s players had tested the protective mask that Callum McGregor was wearing.
Celtic were swamped with complaints about the comments with the club tweeting that the issue was being addressed. The club rarely comment on the content of their media partners but it seems that suggesting violence against an employee crossed a line.
Boyd turned to The Sun on Friday night to give context to his comment but there was no apology, it seems that Sky Sports are content to give him a platform with the ball in Celtic’s court to see how they address the issue.
It’s a Scottish Super Sunday on @ScotlandSky. Motherwell v Celtic from 1pm then straight into Rangers v Hearts. Perfect weather for a sofa day too ?? #spfl pic.twitter.com/NoRkgbU9GB
— Eilidh Barbour ?? (@EilidhBarbour) February 6, 2022
Barbour turned off comments from anyone other than she was following to prevent her account taking the Boyd backlash.
With regards to comments made by former professional footballer Kris Boyd concerning Callum McGregor’s injury, we can confirm that the matter is currently being addressed by the club.
— Celtic Football Club (@CelticFC) February 4, 2022
@ScotlandSky shambles having Kris Boyd in the studio for a Celtic game after his comments midweek about someone trying to further injure Callum McGregor.
— Dylan Corrigan?? (@dylancorrigan96) February 6, 2022
@ScotlandSky @SkySports, another disgrace from yourselves letting Kris Boyd cover the Celtic Motherwell game.
— Jamesdownie?????? (@Jimbhoy73) February 6, 2022
Kris Boyd with a note pad ” how do you stop Celtic playing like that”?
??— Sean Derry (@SeanDerry9) February 6, 2022
Kris Boyd bring nice about Celtic ??? ah can’t stop laughing
— DEBTS WE FORGET ?????????? (@Danny32436483) February 6, 2022
I see @ScotlandSky are taking complaints about Kris Boyd seriously?! Was there no room for @MotherwellFC or @CelticFC ex-player on the panel?
— ChrisH (@funder67) February 6, 2022
@ScotlandSky @SkySports Not interested in anything Kris Boyd has to say on Celtic . Your coverage of Scottish Football is awful much prefer BT Sports ! Even without the games ! @spfl you listening ?
— Octopus (@DTinmey) February 6, 2022
Kris boyd- It’s been a poor 45 minutes from Motherwell, he can’t bring himself to say its been a great 45 minutes from celtic, how does this guy get airtime.
— Larsson7? (@Larsson7102) February 6, 2022
Eilidh Barbour, Kris boyd and Alex Neil covering a Celtic game….not even hiding it
— Olivier Tébily (@ORebily) February 6, 2022
@ScotlandSky why is Kris Boyd still in your employment as a so called independent pundit? He is 100% biased against Celtic and proved that in Wednesday. Get him sacked!
— Vanity ferr fortnight (@vani_tees1967) February 6, 2022
Sky do people pay for this $hit show if you do you must have money to burn such poor pundits and I can’t believe they get also paid for talking pure s#ite.ps I see jam tarts got really stuck into there big cousins.
Just a Fat Dik Hun Bastard, Fuk him!! When we win the Treble this Cunt will be FUKIN NAEWHERE TAE BE SEEN LOL!
The guy is so biased against celtic why does sky just tell him to go and join the BBC or something you just have to listen to him and you would know he has no clue about football
Aye BBC would do him fine.
Response is simple. Cancel Sky. I did it regularly and they were soon on offering a discount. Now won’t give them my money.
boyd is the reason I cancelled my sky subscription….pathetic individual and shame on sly sports sticking with that halfwit..
I am not well versed in the legalities of TV contracts etc. between F.A’s and broadcasting companies but Celtic should tell the SFA that they don’t want any dealings with Sky TV.
Celtic TV should broadcast all their home games and refuse to give interviews with Sky at any away games.
Sevco refuse to have anything to do with Cinch and have banned BBC and Daily Record so how come they can do that then?
He is in their employment because they too are biased against Celtic.
The more we complain about Boyd the more he will be on. If you all feel that bad about get BT or Virgin. Simple.
Let’s all be honest the celtic board will not upset Sky.
We’re just the punters who pay for heated seats.
Blue pound is more important than us.
Who cares what this clown says this empty heid can’t put 2words together never mind 2 sentences because there is nothing in that heid bar thread sown in as a transplant.
Celtic, just win the league and shut him up.
Celtic Board should call it a day,if they do not have the Balls nor Gumption to tackle the SFA,SPLA,or SKY over this poor excuse for a Human Being.If he is Broadcasting from his Mutant Studio Chair about WANTING players to seriously injure a Fellow Professional to gain an advantage, simply because his beloved Sevco did not have any other answer to deal with Callum McGregor and the apposing players Club Chairman a d Board Members refuse to follow through on addressing the matter ,THEN THEY SERIOUSLY NEED TO LOOK AT THEMSELVES BIG-TIME.