Kris Boyd hit out with a hilarious warning to Celtic live on Sky Sports after Rangers’ 6-0 win over Kilmarnock on Wednesday night.
The ex-Gers striker was covering Celtic’s hard-fought 1-0 victory at Pittodrie but kept a keen eye on events at Ibrox, where his old team ran riot.
Philippe Clement’s men now have three wins on the bounce. They have scored 11 goals in their previous three matches, too, and conceded just once.
They are gaining momentum, but Boyd’s warning left many in the Sky Sports studio at Pittodrie in hysterics.
Indeed, towards the end of the programme, host Eilidh Barbour mentioned Rangers’ 6-0 win, to which Boyd replied: “Be afraid, Rangers are back.”
Ex-Celts Neil Lennon and Jonny Hayes couldn’t contain their laughter:
😝 “Be afraid, Rangers are back”
Kris Boyd on tonight’s other Scottish Premiership results ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/YOiUcxwfi4
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) December 4, 2024
Boyd surely had to be joking, but mind you, such delusion seems to have plagued the Rangers fanbase over the past few years.
Granted, they are gaining momentum at the perfect time, although we can’t forget how poor they have been all season long: being 11 points behind Celtic in early December proves the Ibrox club’s dismal start to the campaign.
Fans are beginning to turn one eye to the League Cup final, which takes place a week on Sunday. While Clement and his men might be ‘back’, Celtic, based on their incredible start to the season, remain favourites heading into the Hampden showdown.
Yeah they won 6-0 at home to Kilmarnock, but the game previously at the weekend where they struggled and needed an own goal to win 1-0, so the claim they are back means nothing.
They still trail celtic by a massive 11 point gap, it would take a monumental collapse from celtic, and a monumental challenge from sevco to try and bridge that gap.
The conditions played a massive part up at Pittodrie, yes it was wet and windy at castle greyscull, but it wasn’t quite as bad as it was up in the north east of Scotland.
Celtic win by one goal and sevco by six, yet at the weekend it was the opposite way around, veltic win by five going on nine and sevco win by one going on maybe two.
It’s the usual double standards here, celtic win by a solitary goal and sevco by six, so it’s all celtic struggles and sevco romp home, sevco are now on a great run.
Yet at the weekend celtic romp home five nil winners and sevco win by an own goal, yet it’s not reported that sevco were really struggling to score in yet another spfl game, celtics win by five goals to nil, it’s just celtic beating a team that didn’t show up.
This will not be the only time this will happen, it will continue to happen till the leagues won, even then it will be watch out next season as the sevco are coming.