Kris Boyd’s Celtic Double Standard Exposed: Nancy Blamed, McInnes Excused

Kris Boyd has provided perhaps the most extraordinary example yet of the different standards seemingly applied to Celtic and the Ibrox club.

After Wilfried Nancy had managed TWO Celtic games, Boyd wrote:

“The buck always stops with the manager.”

Fast-forward to Derek McInnes after TWO competitive games across Glasgow.

Boyd’s verdict?

“It can’t always be the manager’s fault.”

Same pundit. Same two-game sample. Completely different standard.

It would almost be funny if the contradiction wasn’t so glaring.

Kris Boyd hammered Celtic boss Nancy

Nancy had been Celtic manager for only ten days.

He had inherited the team mid-season, without a pre-season, before facing league leaders Hearts and Roma.

Yet Boyd was already asking: “Is it arrogance? Has he been naive?”

He warned Nancy’s reign could “unravel quickly” and described his opening as a “nightmare start”.

Most tellingly, Boyd declared: “The buck always stops with the manager.”

There wasn’t much room for mitigating circumstances there.

Eight months later, McInnes provided the perfect opportunity to test that principle.

Suddenly, the principle changed.

Kris Boyd finds excuses for McInnes

McInnes drew 1-1 with Dundee United before losing 2-1 against Jagiellonia Białystok.

Two games. No victories.

Boyd acknowledged supporters were already questioning McInnes.

His response was remarkable.

“It can’t always be the manager’s fault.”

Boyd then insisted: “Players need to start taking the blame, too.”

Where was that defence for Nancy?

Boyd even argued the Ibrox club’s attacking combinations would “develop and improve in time”.

Time?

That’s precisely what Nancy wasn’t afforded in Boyd’s assessment.

Nobody should seriously demand McInnes is sacked after two or three matches. That would be absurd.

But that’s exactly why Boyd’s contrasting rhetoric deserves scrutiny.

If McInnes deserves patience, Nancy deserved patience.

If McInnes’ players carry responsibility, Celtic’s players carried responsibility.

Boyd is entitled to his opinions and his affection for his former club.

However, Sky Sports viewers are equally entitled to expect consistency from a prominent national pundit.

These aren’t interpretations of what Boyd might have meant.

They are his own words.

Nancy after two games: “The buck always stops with the manager.”

McInnes after two games: “It can’t always be the manager’s fault.”

Sometimes a double standard doesn’t need exposing.

It exposes itself.