Kenny Macintyre took to Twitter last night to deal with the reaction to his disastrous post match interview with Ange Postecoglou following Celtic’s 2-0 win over St Mirren.
The starting point for the issue is on January 31 when the BBC Scotland tweeted ‘Rangers are my team, never hidden that’.
With Celtic and his team within three points of each other with 10 matches left to play it is only natural that Macintyre would have been watching last night’s match with his heart in Perth where his own team was playing.
It wasn’t Celtic’s best performance of the season but over 14 home matches you get a variety of performances. Under Postecoglou Celtic have dropped home points to Dundee United and Livingston while losing fairly emphatically to Bayer Leverkusen and Bodo Glimt.
They started the Premiership campaign with 6-0 wins over Dundee and St Mirren but every fan knows that those levels won’t be maintained. An experienced journalist knows that the team that wins a league title turns in a wide range of performances over the season.
Macintyre failed to take that into perspective when he spoke after the match:
Kenny MacIntyre: Ange, I’d love to know your thoughts on that game. I’ve seen some fantastic matches this season, that certainly wasn’t one of them, it was a hard watch at times, is that fair?
Ange Postecoglou: Well it depends on what you are looking for, maybe you are disappointed at the way that it went mate, I’m not really sure.
Macintyre trying to but in: No it is not that, I just felt, I just felt
Postecoglou: We’ve won a game 2-0, they didn’t create anything, I think that we dominated the football, it is a bit hard when the opposition sit so deep. If anything I thought we were better. We were solid, we stayed composed, we did what we had to do to weigh down an opposition that was sitting deep and defending well.
The interview concluded with Macintyre asking the Celtic manager his thoughts on the Rangers result.
CLICK HERE for post-match reaction, Macintyre asks his first question at 19 minutes 30 seconds.
Not at all. Just thought it was a dreadful game.
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) March 2, 2022
Fair enough.
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) March 2, 2022
My point is comparing Celtic to this season’s performances. I’ve seen them blow sides away. That has been missing recently.
As Ange would say, awful for who? Wasn’t the best performance of the season but far from awful.
— Thomas ?? (@TomEH67) March 2, 2022
I had to interview Neil Lennon after last season’s defeat to St Mirren. Night and day.
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) March 2, 2022
Not snide.
I followed up by asking was that as negative an approach as he’s seen from an opposition team at Celtic Park.
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) March 3, 2022
I think that is bang on.
I’ve spoken a lot about how great Ange has been for our game. I really enjoy interviewing him.
Gave me that terrific final answer after the Rangers game about what it meant to fans with problems in their life.
Just think performances have dropped.
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) March 2, 2022
Yeah.
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) March 2, 2022
Back on Transfer Deadline Day Macintyre revealed his footballing interest, it is almost unheard of for a BBC Scotland sports reporter to admit to supporting one of the two main Glasgow teams.
Rangers are my team, never hidden that. Be strange to have someone working on Sportsound that didn’t support a team.
As for Kris Boyd. I know at times he is a wind up merchant, but he talks up our game. Would he be in the Sky studio tonight if he wasn’t such a big personality?
— Kenny Macintyre (@kennymacsport) January 31, 2022
A hun of the highest order
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You took an oath when you joined masons and that stops you a reporter to all