‘Very Powerful’ BBC reporter Kenny Macintyre goes on mute as Aiden McGeady poses the question he didn’t want to hear

Kenny Macintyre likes to think that he is the rottweiler reporter, the guy that asks the hard questions that others swerve away from. 

When it comes to interviewing the manager of Celtic, Aberdeen or Hibs on the back of a defeat the BBC reporter can be relied on to put the boot in, apparently asking the questions that the fans returning home want to have answered. 

In February Macintyre admitted that he was a ‘Rangers’ fan which explains much of his questioning to Ange Postecoglou with the Celtic manager knowing exactly the motivations of the BBC Scotland reporter. 

When Celtic’s 2-0 win over St Mirren in March was described as a hard watch the hoops boss struck back at Macintyre with ‘Well it depends on what you are looking for, maybe you are disappointed at the way that it went mate’. 

Last week the fearless reporter arranged an interview with Aiden McGeady, modestly describing it as powerful on his own Twitter account. 

One subject that was touched on was the Glasgow-born winger’s decision to play his international football for Ireland- and the reaction that followed. 

Across Scottish football the then teenager was the subject of regular abuse, not so strangely other Scottish born footballers that selected to play for other countries received no adverse reaction. 

McGeady knows the reasons why, when he put that question to Macintyre the fearless reporter choked, it was an area way out of his comfort zone. 

It wasn’t a compliment to McGeady because he was feared by opposing fans, it wasn’t an O** F*** thing. Fearless Kenny Mac knows the answer but with his own background and baggage he stumbled on. Powerful, aye, if you think so.  

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