Two village idiots agree, and Keevins wants in on exposing Desmond at Celtic

Well, we always knew Hugh Keevins and Kris Boyd were a pair of village idiots.

But what do you get when two village idiots agree with each other?

Two village idiots…

The fact that they agree doesn’t change a thing.

Yet here we are, with Keevins telling the readers of the Daily Record that Celtic have forced him to agree with Boydy.

He says he knew they would “see eye to eye on something one day”.

I’ll give them this much, they have found the one thing worth agreeing on.

Keevins has finally woken from his slumber and noticed what Charlie Methven said last week.

Because make no mistake, that is what this column is.

Methven laid out, in plain English, exactly how this club is run and who runs it.

The Celtic support took it and ran with it, because we have been saying the same thing for years.

Keevins, meanwhile, has taken a week to catch up.

And now he wants a piece of the action.

Here he is, describing the state of the club he suddenly finds so interesting:

It is, in short, an unhappy and dysfunctional club at the moment to my way of thinking.

Well, hold the front page.

We’ve only been telling him that since the day Michael Nicholson was handed the keys.

I genuinely think he is beside himself with envy that fan media are exposing Dermot Desmond and the mainstream aren’t

Think about that for a second.

The Scottish mainstream media had every access, every contact and every press pass going.

They had decades to go after Desmond, his grip on Celtic and the board he has put in place to protect it.

They didn’t.

They went for coffee with Peter Lawwell instead.

Now they’re lamenting the fact that bloggers, podcasters and supporters with a keyboard got there first.

Who ever thought we’d see the day the SMSM would be feeding off the scraps of fan media?

I certainly didn’t.

And yet Keevins is perfectly happy to dine on them now, as long as the plate has his name on it.

Credit where it’s due, he did get one thing right about Celtic Connect

I’ll be fair to the man, because I always am.

When he writes about the club’s brand new forum for fans, he is absolutely right:

The Celtic directors don’t have a say on the club’s future. The Chief Executive, Michael Nicholson, doesn’t have a say on the club’s future. The future is set out by, and overseen by, only one man, the principal shareholder.

That is spot on.

It’s also precisely what we have been saying since long before he put it in print.

Celtic Connect is just another group of people for Dermot to ignore on a permanent basis.

But notice how long it took Keevins to say it out loud.

He sat on his hands while the board urged shareholders to block motions from their own supporters.

Keevins sat on his hands while the Celtic Trust asked for an apology over last year’s AGM.

He sat on his hands when the Green Brigade spoke up about the security culture at Celtic Park.

Now there is an AGM in two weeks, the mood is mutinous, and suddenly it’s a good time to be brave.

Funny, that.

Because the board haven’t suddenly become more accountable – they have just become easier to criticise.

Silent Mike still hasn’t explained a thing, and the absent meddling golfer is still nowhere to be seen.

Yet the same columnists who never pressed either of them are now acting like they cracked the case.

Having said that, I’ll concede one point to Keevins.

At least he has put it in print, which is more than most of his colleagues have managed.

But a late conversion is still a conversion of convenience, isn’t it?

You’ve been asleep for the better part of 40 years, Shug, and now you decide you want to be a real journalist?

Sorry, pal, but it doesn’t work like that.

Real journalists ask the question when it’s inconvenient.

They ask it when the club has the power to freeze them out, when the phone calls stop and the invites dry up.

They don’t wait until the supporters have done the digging and the whole country is looking.

Then again, I can only judge him by what he’s written, and what he’s written for four decades is whatever the board were happy for him to write.

It’s hard to see why we should be grateful for the sudden change of heart.

The fans did the hard yards, and the SMSM want to share the credit.

It’s a bit like Haissem Hassan being left out of the squad at Kilmarnock because the manager was “trying to do as much manoeuvring as possible”.

You hear it, you nod politely, and you know exactly what it’s covering for.

You, me and every other Tim on the terraces saw this coming years ago.

We just weren’t invited to write it in the Daily Record.

And the way things are going, not ONE of them will be ready to say sorry when the dust settles.

So, welcome to the party, Shug.

Just don’t expect us to hold the door open for you.

You snooze, you lose.

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