SKY SPORTS TAKES A CHEAP SHOT AT GREG TAYLOR, CELTIC FANS WILL SEE RIGHT THROUGH IT
- BY LIAM CARRIGAN
- 2 days ago
- 2 min read
Celtic won 5-1 yesterday, which was exactly the kind of reaction we all wanted to see.
It was also great to see Greg Taylor turn in a man of the match performance.
The sight of him bringing his newborn baby onto the field shortly before kick-off was one of those beautiful moments you love to see at the football.
That didn’t however, stop one Sky reporter from trying to manufacture some kind of scandal out of the whole thing.
Greg Taylor Interview No-Show Has Record Speculating, Celtic Fans Shaking Their Heads
Usually, the man of the match gives a TV interview immediately after the game. However, Greg Taylor didn’t.
Instead, it was Cameron Carter-Vickers and our captain Callum McGregor who performed the post-match interview duties. Ask expected, both players spoke positively, and Carter-Vickers was very humble about his goal of the season contender.
The Sky Sports reporter in question, Luke Shanley, then had the temerity to ask Celtic Manager Brendan Rodgers if Taylor’s absence was because the club are resigned to losing him at the end of the season.
Taylor was literally standing a few feet away on the pitch with his wife and his baby.
I’d say his family are probably just a wee bit more important to him than a Sky TV interview where some hack journalist is going to yet again ask him about the contract situation and Taylor will yet again have to awkwardly say “no comment.”
I don’t know if it was Taylor’s choice to not do the interview or if Rodgers instructed him not to. And neither does Sky Sports. So, for them to speculate either way is just bang out of order.
Ultimately, it doesn’t matter, whether it was the player or the manager who made that call, it was the right call to make.
Celtic won 5-1 yesterday, a result which, by tonight, might be enough to clinch the title.
In any case, it was a very positive occasion with the team playing some absolutely joyous football at times. It was also a great day for Taylor personally.
So, why give a hostile press the chance to put a dampener on such a positive atmosphere with a barrage of negative questions which they already know neither the manager nor the player can answer?
Greg Taylor was superb yesterday, and I think we can all agree he earned the right to spend his time after the game however he chooses.
Sky will just have to work a wee bit harder for their next clickbait headline about Celtic.
Taylor may yet stay, or more likely he will leave at the end of the season. Whatever happens, its his choice to make.
Until he reaches that final decision, and is ready to announce it publicly, it’s nobody’s business but his own.