Kris Boyd. A man Celtic fans love to hate. Not only because of his Rangers playing days, but his constant sniping at the club and his unashamed inability to be impartial as a pundit is another reason.
But in his article today in The Sun, his latest piece on Leigh Griffiths is a shocking example of baiting and goading to the lunatic element of the Rangers support.
The first two lines of the article set the tone for the whole piece, “KARMA has a way of catching up with people.
“Leigh Griffiths is about to find that out the hard way at Dens Park.”
Now we all know when someone says karma will catch up with someone in this part of the world, there are dark connotations attached to it. And what exactly does Boyd suggest when he claims that Griffiths will ‘find out the hard way‘?
We all know the on loan Celtic striker will take abuse for his off field misdemeanours and I am in no way defending what Leigh Griffiths has done, but there is an element of the Rangers support over the last few weeks that have been playing grievance politics with people’s lives and careers over tweets posted over a decade ago that could take these words literally as a green light to do and say whatever they wish.
Their sheer determination and doggedness to rake up muck from anyone that is regarded as attacking their club has been witnessed over the last few weeks.
Let’s not forget Leigh Griffiths suffers from well documented mental health issues.
Kris Boyd is a mental health ambassador and, to his credit, does incredible work through his mental health charity, The Kris Boyd Charity.
A lot of Griffiths problems, not all, are directly related to him struggling with his mental health.
Mistakes have clearly been made on Griffiths part and with him making the move away from Celtic to Dundee, it is clear he is trying to rebuild his career and leave those mistakes behind.
Boyd’s article could, undoubtedly, set that back and if anything untoward should happen today at Dens that affects Griffiths recovery, Boyd should be held accountable, in part, for that.
But I’ll leave you with this quote, “With more serious mental health problems, people also usually find a way of managing their condition.
“For many people, getting better does not mean going back to their previous life, but might mean making choices to live differently and having power over areas of life that seemed out of control before.
“Some people emerge from the experience feeling stronger and wiser having learnt more about themselves.”
Straight from Boyd’s own charity website page.
Yeah, exactly.