The excitement was almost dribbling off the page as Hugh Keevins completed his column for the Daily Record/Sunday Mail.
With a career spent playing up to stereotypes he couldn’t resist dragging up horror tales from Celtic’s previous trips to Livingston.
The cocktail of a plastic pitch, Celtic’s Champions League distractions and the tactical genius that is David Martindale was enough to warm the heart for a Sunday lunchtime thriller.
If extra evidence was required Livi drew at Ibrox last week, against the side that Keevins had tipped to take the title from Celtic.
Anticipating Livi causing trouble for Celtic, yesterday Keevins told Record readers:
Jersey on first and then the incontinence pants. It was that way for Rangers last weekend when they were fortunate to get away with a draw against Livi at Ibrox. And Celtic have no grounds for being dismissive of Martindale’s team today.
The manager could once more influence the progress of the title race on a budget Rishi Sunak would say constituted a national crisis.
Martindale is an illusionist. He makes you contradict the evidence of your own eyes with his team of odds and sods. Livi are more than they should be on a regular basis.
Celtic are not yet all they can be to Postecoglou’s way of thinking. He wants them in the Champions League on an annual, as opposed to irregular, basis.
In order to do that Ange’s team will need to win their domestic league for starters. And that means overpowering mechatronman along the way to maintaining the lead they currently have over Rangers.
A look at the SPFL Premiership table today will remind Keevins of factual events, with 11 wins out of 12 Ange Postecoglou’s side are four points clear at the top of the table despite only playing five home matches to dat. Livingston are in ninth place despite taking a point at Ibrox.
Will wee Davie still be the hacks blue eyed boy now that he’s no longer sticking it up Celtic and if he keeps costing Rangers points ?
As I said in yesterday’s post this daft auld Jeremy Hunt was actually praising a drug dealer what an absolute joke Spew Heevins is,the misery drugs brings to the lives of those who take and use them to families left to pick the mess left behind because of the damage drugs do people,and Auld Shug rolls out the sympathy carpet for MARTINJAIL.
Auld Spew shat his incontinence pants with that display and result.
H.Keevins do us all a favour and go down with oldco because the newco are at the backs because ur just a lying old scumbag do you forget 2012 hugh what you said about the biggest cheats in Scottish football rfc 1872 liquidated eh..oldnRATBAG.
Every time anyone passes comment on this pantomime villain it validates his ramblings,if we all ignore him then, by dint of failure to get ratings, he will disappear
Does anyone actually read what Keevins has to say anymore?
A bitter old 3rd rate hack,with an axe to grind, no thank you.
Keevins is the original.dickhead no idea why.he writes bout football he hasn’t got a clue not one iota wot he talking bout if he stayed in a village he wud be the village idiot and that’s been kind to him take piece advice stop talking bout game nd managers cus you.just havnt got a clue
After reading your article Keevins has been put back in his box. Martindale is no tactical genius in fact i’ve seen pub teams with more tactical nous than Livi.