If I’ve wrote this before, I apologise but it does sound familiar in my head but I genuinely have no idea what the hell goes on inside Alex Rae’s head when it comes to commenting on Celtic.
The level of vitriol he has aimed at the Hoops striker Kyogo Furuhashi since he was fouled last week against Livingston is really quite unbelieveable.
On Clyde 1 Superscoreboard after the Livingston match as reported by Vital Celtic, Rae said of Kyogo after Obileye’s slap, ““I thought it was embarrassing, the actual contact doesn’t justify your legs going away“
“He actually goes to try and hold the front of his face, then realises he has been hit in the back of the head.
“For me, it was a penalty because you can’t hit people in the box, especially in the head.
“So, I don’t have any issues with that side of it, however, to go down in the manner which he did was embarrassing.“
Those comments are embarrassing Alex. It was a blatant assault. End of.
But he still hasn’t let it go.
And this time he has taken his initial comments that little bit further. And it seems an agenda is starting to build here by the former Rangers man.
When asked on the show about Kyogo’s contact with a Dundee defender where the striker made contact with his head in an innocuous incident, Rae said, “I thought it was strange. Because it looked as if he initiated contact for me.
“So I don’t know whether he’s trying to buy a penalty or not.
“Whether you claim or not because he was on the ground for a period of time.
“So whether he’s trying to do that on the back of last week, he just has to be careful if he does that more often because the reputation will come that he’s going to ground far too easy.”
First off, he initiated contact? Is Rae suggesting that Kyogo deliberately went to hurt the Dundee defender?
Buy a penalty? Did Kyogo claim for it? Did anyone in the Celtic camp claim for anything? And the fact he was down for a period of time tells you he was in pain.
Anyone that has the experience of banging the crown of their skull will tell you that.
But what is more concerning here is that Rae claims Kyogo may gain a reputation for this? For what? Getting slapped? Fouled?
Or being challenged off the ball over various fixtures but just bouncing back up and getting on with it?
Rae has started a narrative here. Intentional or not, he has used his platform to somehow make out that Kyogo is a diver or a cheat.
And it is a claim that if it builds momentum, the club must challenge in the strongest possible terms.