Keevins faux outrage at attack on Celtic’s Fran Alonso is too little, too late

In his usual Sunday article in this morning’s Record, Hugh Keevins has expressed his dismay at what happened to Fran Alonso last Monday at Broadwood.

For a long time now, I have been calling Keevins out on his ignorance of the problems in Scottish football.

He continuously pretends there are no major issues in the sport in Scotland.

After Monday night’s incident, it’s almost as if a light bulb came on and after his decades as a journalist, he is finally admitting we might have a problem in Scottish football.

Once again, though, Keevins cannot find it within himself to separate Celtic from the Ibrox club.

He persists in referring to both as the O** F***.

What do journalists in the Scottish Sports media imagine is going to happen if they chose to ditch that label?

Would just referring to the sides involved by their names separately, instead of a collective, result in something catastrophic happening?

There is almost this desperate need to cling to these two words.

As if to let it go would confirm the truth and the reality that the old club that played out of Ibrox is dead.

Or at the very least, that we are not bound to each other.

Keevins likes to see himself as a neutral, or as they say in Ireland, the Hurler on the ditch.

He will not admit that the main problem in Scotland at this moment in time is one club.

And that club does not play out of Celtic Park.

This particular statement sums up Keevins inability to see that the problem lies in Govan:

There will be no away fans at the final two O** F*** games this season because both clubs agreed there are serious concerns over what they called “safety and security”

Both clubs??

While Keevins recognised the bottle incident at Ibrox, he failed to mention that David Friel was hit by a bottle.

Instead, he referred to it as a “glass object”.

Which could be one of many things made from glass.

Explain to me, though, how both clubs came to this agreement, Hugh?

When has anybody at Ibrox, in recent times, ever had to fear for their “safety and security” as a result of something Celtic has done?

Keevins likes to put his own spin on things, to suit his narrative, so to speak.

In this case, to augment his neutral stance.

Oh yes, there have been “created” incidents after games at Celtic Park.

Invariably, they’ve always involved people in wheelchairs.

But they’ve never been confirmed.

However, to say that both clubs have agreed there are serious concerns over “security and safety” is bollocks.

One club has no such concerns.

Celtic is the only club that has concerns and I don’t need to spell that out.

I already did that in my article on Thursday evening.

Today, I would be more inclined to give Keevins credit for his honesty in this morning’s article if he actually had the ability to admit that the Ibrox club are causing all of the problems in Scottish football at the moment.

And that doesn’t just involve Celtic.

There’s also the recent Cinch dispute, and Joe McHugh over on Videocelts yesterday highlighted their dispute with Glen’s Vodka.

Like the SFA, Neil Doncaster and the SPFL just choose to play dumb on these issues.

Ignore it and it’ll go away.

The usual course of action.

But it never goes away.

And it never will, until the Ibrox club are forced to play by the rules everyone else abides by.

With Keevins, what pisses me off so much is his insistence in referring to us and the Ibrox side as a pairing.

His inability to separate us.

Well, here’s one thing that separates us drastically from that club, amongst many things, I might add.

We abide by the rules.

We are not a law unto ourselves and we accept the rules and regulations as laid out by the SFA and the SPFL, and Uefa, of course.

As much as we might disagree with a lot of them, we accept them.

The reason we have had to refuse our ticket allocation from Ibrox, due to safety concerns for our fans, is because the SFA are too gutless to deal with the Ibrox club in the correct manner.

So we’ve had to act ourselves.

Alone.

Not in agreement with the Ibrox club, as Keevins says.

All of what Keevins discusses about last Monday night’s incident at Broadwood is correct, and he had the opportunity to make his article perfection, if he chose to recognise where the current problems in our game really lie.

As usual, he skirted the centre and cause of the issue, and instead hung around the periphery of it.

But there was no way of avoiding how serious Monday night’s incident was, he had no choice but to delve into that.

His article this morning, is too little, too late, and it doesn’t go anywhere near really tackling the issues in our game in a proper journalistic manner.

Faux outrage 40 years later just doesn’t cut it.

For Keevins, redemption is now way beyond him.

I’m sure he knows that at this late stage in the day.

Frankly, I don’t think he gives a shit.

He never did.