Jamie Bryson’s Vile Celtic Obsession Exposes Him as a Sectarian Hypocrite

Jamie Bryson’s Celtic obsession has gone far beyond ordinary football rivalry.

Bryson is not an honest football commentator. He is not an impartial defender of fairness, dignity or sporting integrity.

In my opinion, he is a sectarian bigot whose increasingly poisonous obsession with Celtic has exposed the tribal hatred beneath his carefully manufactured public persona.

That is a serious conclusion, but Bryson has supplied the evidence himself.

He has described Celtic as a “vile reprehensible institution”, branded Martin O’Neill “disgusting”, accused officials of “systemic blatant cheating” in Celtic’s favour and refused to recognise Celtic as legitimate champions.

This is not normal football criticism. It is a relentless pattern of hostility towards Celtic while Rangers and their supporters are defended, excused or praised.

A different rulebook for Celtic and Rangers

Bryson’s method is embarrassingly predictable.

He begins with the conclusion that Celtic are guilty, corrupt or vile. He ignores inconvenient facts, excuses Rangers and arranges everything else around the verdict he had already chosen.

Following disorder at Ibrox after Celtic eliminated Rangers from the Scottish Cup, Bryson claimed Celtic supporters were “solely responsible”.

Rangers supporters invaded the pitch, yet Bryson attempted to portray them as brave defenders of the Rangers players.

It was a shameless rewriting of reality.

When Celtic supporters are involved in an incident, Bryson condemns an entire club and institution. When Rangers supporters invade their own pitch, he manufactures a heroic justification for them.

That is not analysis. It is tribal propaganda from a man apparently so consumed by Celtic that he would rather insult everyone’s intelligence than acknowledge wrongdoing on the Rangers side.

A repellent attack involving abuse survivors

Bryson’s response also contained a sneering reference to Celtic running “quicker than their boys club settling a legal case”.

That comment should disgust every decent person, regardless of which club they support.

Abuse survivors endured experiences that no football rivalry should ever trivialise. Their suffering does not exist to provide Bryson with vicious material for an X post.

Yet he used it anyway.

He reached into one of the darkest and most painful subjects imaginable and dragged it into an argument about crowd disorder.

A man who weaponises the trauma of abuse survivors to score a cheap point against a football club has no standing to posture as an authority on dignity, decency or morality.

There was no dignity in that post. There was no compassion. There was only malice.

Every Celtic decision becomes “cheating”

When a refereeing decision benefits Celtic, Bryson does not merely question it. He alleges corruption.

Following Celtic’s victory over Dundee United, he claimed that there was “systemic blatant cheating in favour of Celtic” and that officials were no longer attempting to conceal it.

That was an allegation of organised corruption. Where was his evidence?

There was none.

The incident was subsequently explained under the published handball law. Referees’ chief Willie Collum said the contact was accidental and explained why the goal was allowed to stand.

Bryson was entitled to dispute that judgment. Instead, he leapt from one decision to an evidence-free conspiracy involving Celtic and Scottish football’s officials.

He later called John Beaton a cheat and declared that Celtic would begin a match against Rangers with 12 players.

Again, there was no meaningful evidence—only another furious allegation designed to feed resentment.

Bryson’s standard is laughable: any decision benefiting Celtic is evidence of corruption, while decisions benefiting Rangers are apparently part of the natural order.

Celtic’s title exposed Bryson’s bitterness

When Celtic defeated Hearts 3-1 and secured the league championship, Bryson congratulated Hearts as the “real champions”.

He called Celtic “vile” and Martin O’Neill “disgusting”.

There was one rather important problem: Celtic were the real champions.

Celtic won the decisive match, finished two points clear and collected their 56th league championship. Those facts were recorded in the final table. Bryson’s tantrum could not alter them.

His reaction was a rejection of sporting reality because that reality delivered another Celtic triumph.

Imagine becoming so consumed by hatred of a football club that you publicly pretend the team finishing second actually won the competition.

It was not Celtic’s credibility Bryson damaged that day. It was his own.

Rangers remain “dignified” regardless of the evidence

Bryson has praised the supposed “dignity and decency” of Rangers and the Union Bears while condemning Celtic as a vile institution.

The hypocrisy is staggering.

Rangers-related disorder is excused. Pitch invasions are rewritten as acts of protection. Offensive behaviour is separated from the institution and attributed to individuals.

Celtic receive no such distinction.

With Celtic, the actions of individuals supposedly stain the entire club. With Rangers, even collective disorder cannot interfere with Bryson’s fantasy of inherent dignity.

Rangers supporters have been associated with pitch incursions, sectarian chanting, missile throwing and other disgraceful incidents.

Where were Bryson’s declarations that Rangers were a vile institution?

Where were his sweeping condemnations of everyone connected with Ibrox?

They never appeared because Bryson’s supposed morality is entirely conditional. It begins and ends with the identity of the people involved.

That is hypocrisy in its purest form.

The sectarian element cannot be ignored

Celtic were established to help impoverished communities in Glasgow’s predominantly Irish Catholic East End. Their Irish Catholic heritage remains inseparable from the club’s identity.

Jamie Bryson knows this.

He is a loyalist activist who has described himself as contemptuous of nationalism. He opposes the Belfast Agreement and has placed himself at the centre of the Orange Order’s revived Drumcree campaign involving the predominantly nationalist Garvaghy Road community.

He recently declared: “Either the Portadown District goes down the Garvaghy Road or the Executive goes down.”

That was a staggering intervention from an unelected activist who appeared willing to treat the stability of Northern Ireland’s political institutions as expendable over an Orange parade.

Bryson has also argued that the IRA were terrorists while refusing to apply the same description to the UVF. Once again, the moral judgment changes according to the community involved.

He was previously convicted over unlawful loyalist processions connected to the Union flag protests. The judge rejected his account and said his evidence lacked substance and credibility on the relevant issues.

This is the man who now appoints himself moral judge of Celtic and its supporters.

Bryson needs division to remain relevant

In my opinion, Jamie Bryson thrives on resentment.

He needs another enemy, conspiracy and supposedly existential battle because permanent outrage has become the foundation of his public profile.

Celtic are perfect for his act.

They are successful. They possess an unmistakable Irish Catholic heritage. They represent almost everything Bryson’s aggressive loyalist politics appears determined to oppose.

That is why a disputed refereeing decision becomes “systemic cheating”.

That is why Celtic’s legitimate championship becomes fraudulent.

That is why Martin O’Neill becomes “disgusting”.

That is why the Celtic institution becomes “vile”, while Rangers disorder is sanitised, excused or ignored.

This is not normal football rivalry. It is sectarian-style tribal politics forced through the language of football.

His own words have exposed him

Bryson can deny being motivated by anti-Catholic hostility. Nobody can conclusively prove what exists inside another person’s mind.

The public can, however, judge the relentless pattern he has deliberately placed before them.

A loyalist agitator repeatedly demonises a football club with Irish Catholic foundations. He excuses comparable behaviour from the Rangers side, brands Celtic victories corrupt, exploits survivors’ suffering and treats Celtic supporters as collectively guilty.

In my opinion, that is the conduct of a sectarian bigot.

Not because Bryson is Protestant.

Not because he supports Rangers.

Not because he is a unionist.

It is because he deliberately and repeatedly applies a poisonous tribal standard to Celtic that he will never apply to Rangers.

Bryson presents himself as a formidable political operator. His Celtic posts expose something considerably less impressive: a bitter Rangers partisan apparently incapable of processing defeat without reaching for hatred, conspiracy or abuse.

Jamie Bryson is not exposing Celtic.

He is exposing himself.

Every furious post strips another layer from the performance. Beneath the claims about dignity and fairness lies the same tired mixture of grievance, hypocrisy and tribal hostility.

Jamie Bryson wanted to make Celtic look vile.

Instead, his own words have revealed where the real poison is coming from.