Kris Boyd’s lashes out at Celtic’s media cheerleaders

Kris Boyd has launched a scattergun attack on Celtic’s media cheerleaders without being able to discredit a single comment.

On Sky Sports on Monday they glossed over a penalty claim against Connor Goldson when he used a hand to deflect away a shot from Carl Starfelt.

After a token consultation between John Beaton and Willie Collum play continued with a throw-in to Celtic.

Little was made of the incident in the mainstream, Ange Postecoglou wasn’t asked about it in his post-match interviews but Celtic fans kicked up a storm on social media- it was hard to miss.

Responding to the fall-out over the last few days Boyd tells Sun readers:

Drawing 2-2 was bad enough for some Hoops supporters and their media cheerleaders.

Had they actually lost to Rangers, we’d be talking about a full-scale meltdown.

Ange Postecoglou has even chipped in, claiming everyone would have been up in arms if the spot-kick incident had been at the other end of the pitch.

Where has he been this past week, the moon? Because all I’ve heard and listened to is moans and groans about how wronged Celts were.

Ange insists he’s only thinking of the teams in danger of being relegated because this could affect them down the line. Sure he is.

Let’s get it right. This is just another attempt to keep the Celtic supporters riled into believing the world is against them.

Let’s conveniently gloss over the fact the rules of the game state the handball incident with Connor Goldson is never a penalty.

Honestly, some of the guff that’s been talked about and written this past week, by people who should know better, has been staggering.

But that’s where we’re at. It pays some people’s bills to have a pop at Scotland’s top referees. My big pal Chris Sutton is always blaming someone.

Strangely Boyd is unable to quote Sutton and tell him where he has got it all wrong.

Boyd doesn’t go near the fact that in 20 SPFL matches this season Celtic have conceded five penalties while their city rivals haven’t had a single penalty awarded against them, domestically.

In Europe USG, Napoli twice and Liverpool were awarded penalties against Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side. Four penalties in 10 matches. None in 20 SPFL games.