Village idiot Kris Boyd does not get to lecture Celtic fans on what is, and isn’t embarrassing…

Yesterday, Kris Boyd decided to stick his oar in on what happened with Dermot Desmond at St Andrews last Saturday.

And, of course, he did it on Go Ballistic, sponsored by Scotmid, where the Celtic fans are always guaranteed a fair hearing.

According to the Scottish Sun, he reckons the tennis ball incident was ’embarrassing’ for Celtic, and that the supporters involved have ’embarrassed’ the club.

Now, I’m not going to pretend that this one surprised me.

When you go looking for a Celtic story that lets you wag your finger at the support, Boyd is always first in the queue.

The last person in a position to lecture Celtic fans about anything is a man who played for the Ibrox side

Let that sink in for a second.

The Sun were good enough to tell us he is a ‘Rangers legend’.

I’ll leave you to decide what that says about the standards of embarrassment in his house.

Because this is a man who built his career at Ibrox, and he has the brass neck to tell us what we should be embarrassed about.

Embarrassing?

Boyd has no business lecturing anybody on that subject.

He is attempting to take the moral high ground, but he is only using it as a stick to hit Celtic fans with

Here is some of what he had to say, as reported by the Scottish Sun:

A lot of Celtic fans seem to get carried away with themselves when it comes to things like this.

Some of the Celtic fans think they’re bigger than the football club and it’s never going to be the case.

It’s a step too far for me and Dermot Desmond, for me, will just go and knuckle down now.

Read that again, and tell me where the concern for Celtic is in there.

It’s a sermon about the supposed self-entitlement of our support, delivered by a man who has never had to sit through what we have had to sit through.

Boyd doesn’t care about Dermot Desmond.

He certainly doesn’t care about Celtic.

What he cares about is a platform, a headline and an excuse to have a go at the Tims.

And a few tennis balls on a golf course have handed him all three.

Ibrox and the club’s cheerleaders think this was a huge own goal for Celtic, but they’ve got it wrong

I’ve seen the same line all over the place since Saturday.

The protest has backfired, and the fans have done the board a favour.

That’s the narrative, and everybody seems to be in a hurry to peddle it.

But let me ask you a simple question.

Who was talking about the dispute between the Celtic support and the board a week ago?

The answer is the supporters, a few of the websites, and not an awful lot of anybody else.

And now?

Sky Sports got involved in the conversation yesterday.

That is wider coverage than any of us could have dreamed of getting for the cause, and it has landed at the feet of one man.

That is exactly the kind of publicity Desmond will not want

Make no mistake, he hates it.

He does not want to be painted in a negative light when it comes to Celtic, and he hates having the spotlight shone on him.

It’s the reason the absent meddling golfer is so rarely seen, and it’s the reason he leaves Michael Nicholson to do all of the talking.

Desmond likes to be in the background, pulling the strings, and sending out a midnight statement when the heat gets too much.

What happened at St Andrews did the exact opposite of that.

It dragged him out into the open on one of the biggest weekends in the golfing calendar, in front of the cameras, with the whole country watching.

And then Boyd, bless him, has spent his Monday making sure that the story keeps rolling.

Cheers, Kris.

Desmond couldn’t control what happened at the Dunhill Links, and he can’t control what comes next

That’s the part that Boyd and the cheerleaders cannot get their heads around.

For years, the board have been able to manage the story.

They decide when the statements go out, they decide who gets the briefings, and they decide how much the support gets to know.

On Saturday, none of that was in their hands.

And it won’t be in their hands next week, either.

Because Brendan Rodgers is coming to Glasgow to speak on A Celtic State of Mind.

I can’t think of many things that will have Desmond and his board more rattled than that.

I don’t know what the man is going to say, and I’m not going to pretend that I do.

But he has never been shy about speaking his mind, and the board know it.

If they thought the dust was settling, they better think again.

Now, I’m not stupid, and I’ll say it plainly.

The club’s statement was a strong one, and I understand why it was written.

I wasn’t there, so I can’t tell you what it was like to be on that course, and who knows?

Maybe some of the supporters did take it further than they should have.

But that is an argument for the club and the fans to have between themselves.

It isn’t one for a former Ibrox striker to have on a Monday morning, with a microphone in front of him and an agenda behind it.

The board are rattled, the spotlight is on Desmond and the Celtic support are being talked about all the way to Sky Sports.

Contrary to what everybody is trying to tell you, Saturday was the furthest thing from an own goal.

Nuff said.

DON’T LET THEM TELL YOU OTHERWISE!

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