This guy, he just loves stirring it, it’s almost as if he can’t help himself.

Every Sunday, he looks to find ways, like I pointed out in last Sunday’s article, to piss off both sets of fans in Glasgow.

In this morning’s usual Sunday article, his fire is very much aimed at Celtic and their support.

In reality, it shows just how much attention Keevins pays to facts, which is little to none.

Instead, he decides to make up his own perception of things, and just because he has a platform in the media to express said perceptions, he believes people will take it as fact.

Don’t get me wrong, much of his ramblings are aimed at the hard of thinking.

He just doesn’t seem to get that the majority of Celtic fans are intelligent people, who understand completely what goes on in the Scottish game.

Instead, Keevins tries to paint us as a bunch of morons, who create conspiracies where there are none.

I genuinely thought that journalism involved research, asking hard questions, and shining a light in the truth?

Instead, Keevins just makes it up as he goes along, and what’s worse, he expects people to actually believe it.

Today’s drivel from Keevins is a prime example of that.

We are treated to certain references to our game “up there” from arch cretin, and all round football management blagger, Michael Beale.

How this man landed the Sunderland job is beyond me.

I mean, he failed miserably in the Scottish game, and a couple of months later, manages to walk into one of the top Championship gigs south of the border.

I’ve seen many a crafty cockney geeza in my time, but this fella is just plain fick.

How in God’s name did he blag his way into the Sunnerlan’ job?

He conspired to drop another 3 points away to Ipswich Town yesterday.

His record since taking over reads won 2, drew 1, lost 3.

They went out of the F.A. cup with barely a whimper to Newcastle.

Then again, Beale was always an arch bottler when it came to derby games in Scotland.

Clearly that much hasn’t changed.

Like Keevins, I’m rambling a bit here, so I’ll get to the point.

Keevins is using a statement from Beale as a platform to pontificate about the away fans debacle in the Glasgow derby.

Have a read of this:

It was only seven words long, a soundbite in the middle of a sentence.

But Michael Beale’s reference to Glasgow’s crowd segregation at derby matches spoke volumes. Beale’s Sunderland side had lost to Newcastle United in the FA Cup last weekend on a day when more than 6000 Geordies were allowed in the away end at the Stadium of Light. The former Rangers boss had been energised by the atmosphere generated by two sets of fans motivated by the first chance in eight years to face each other.

Beale was “energised” by the atmosphere generated by two sets of fans?

Obviously not enough to energise his team to actually fight for a place in the next round of the F.A. Cup though.

It’s get better though:

The winning team milked the moment by cheekily posing for a selfie in front of their support at the end. The kind of thing Celtic used to do back in the day when Leigh Griffiths was tying a green and white scarf around a goalpost at Ibrox after helping to dish out a ritualistic beating to his club’s greatest – but at the time skint – rivals. The kind of thing that brought to an end Celtic fans being given sole occupancy of Broomloan Stand on derby day.

That statement from Keevins is oh so wrong on oh so many levels.

Leigh Griffiths’ actions did not bring an end to Celtic fans being given sole occupancy of the Broomloan end.

No, it was the actions of 11 Celtic players on the field of play, who had the audacity to consistently win football matches at Ibrox.

You ever heard of the term sore looser Hugh?

Well, the ultimate sore loss came on the 11th of March 2018.

The Ibrox side couldn’t take it anymore.

Losing at home to the 10 men of Celtic, to a sublime finish from Odsonne Eduoard, was too much to take.

That was the catalyst to where we find ourselves today.

It had nothing to do with Leigh Griffiths tying scarves to the Ibrox goalposts, yes that may have irked the home support, but ultimately, it was simply down to the Ibrox side being sore losers.

That is what started all of this, and it has escalated to where it is now since then.

Celtic instigated none of this.

None of it, other than like I said earlier, having the audacity to win games at Ibrox.

But as usual, Keevins tries to insinuate this was a mutual thing, carried out through mutual loathing:

The kind of thing that led to away fans at Old Firm games being reduced in number to hundreds in a game of directorial tit for tat. Then being removed from the matchday equation altogether in an act of mutual loathing. Beale casually dropped in the difficulty Celtic or Rangers would have in emulating what Sunderland had done by happily housing away fans in considerable number when he said: “They have their own problems up there.” Whatever could he have been talking about?

Directorial tit for tat?

All Celtic did was follow what the Ibrox side insitgated.

We did not start this.

We did not decide that no away fans should be allowed at all.

The Ibrox side instigated that in August 2021, citing Covid-19 as the reason for not allowing away fans, despite the fact the stadium was opened fully to a capacity home crowd for that fixture.

You know? Because Ibrox fans are immune to Covid-19, Celtic fans are not.

All Celtic did was follow suit in February 2022.

It then became a security issue at Ibrox when the safety of Celtic staff and supporters could not be guaranteed.

Joe Hart found broken glass in his goalkeeping area.

A Celtic physio received a bottle to the head.

Weapons were stashed at Ibrox with the intent of doing harm to Celtic supporters.

Celtic fans had cups of piss and other missiles rained down on them.

Nothing like this happened at Celtic Park.

Where we find ourselves today is solely down to one club.

It isn’t Celtic.

No matter what Hugh Keevins tries to tell you.

Keevins believes this dispute will go on forever.

Maybe he’s right on that score, simply because we have a governing body that is too gutless to intervene in this situation.

Until that much changes, it’s highly unlikely we’ll ever see a reversal of this decision.

Celtic have tried, many times, to reason with the Ibrox board on this, but to no avail.

The next statement I’d like to highlight from Keevins, shows how he, just like the Ibrox side, will never change:

Celtic have, to their immense credit, 11 of the last 12 league titles, as well as a history-making quadruple Treble. And yet a lot of their supporters believe implicitly in the existence of a conspiracy against them organised by the game’s governing bodies. Does the penny never drop and do the tolerance levels never rise?

There is no conspiracy Hugh.

The definition of a conspiracy is, a secret plan by a group to do something unlawful or harmful.

There’s nothing secret about what goes on in Scottish football.

It’s blatantly obvious that the majority of Scottish referees are in favour of one team.

It has been categorically proven, time and again, that they support one side.

This is because they do not have to declare their allegiances, something Hugh Keevins decided to touch on last week.

Well, he did, but he didn’t at the same time.

He didn’t have the balls to actually say it.

And this week he’s at it again with the conspiracy garbage.

There is no conspiracy in Scottish football, just blatant bias when it comes to one team.

You don’t have to be a genius to figure it out.

There are mountains of evidence down through the years to prove it.

But Hugh Keevins believes it is better to live in cloud cuckoo land, and to pretend that all is hunky dory in the Scottish game.

It’s all just driven by the mutual loathing between the two Glasgow sides.

God forbid he’s actually do some journalism.

I guess there’s about as much chance of that as there is Celtic fans occupying the Free Broomloan end again….

Enough said.