Eyal Berkovic – Why Rangers players nicknamed him ‘The Grasshopper’

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·18 de febrero de 2025

Eyal Berkovic – Why Rangers players nicknamed him ‘The Grasshopper’

The Scottish mainstream media’s anti-Celtic agenda is clear as you may have noticed in two headlines over the past few days…

5 August 2000: Eyal Berkovic of Celtic in action during the Scottish Premier League match against Motherwell played at Celtic Park, Photo Tom Shaw /Allsport

“Berkovic was so intent on pulling out of a tackle that at Rangers we nicknamed him ‘The Grasshopper’.” Andrei Kanchelskis (via The Celtic Wiki)

It’s all they have left and it is rather pathetic. The two headlines that caught my eye in the poisonous world of the SMSM and it will come as no surprise that it originated from the two cheeks that are the Scottish Sun and Daily Record.

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The two failing red-tops with blue noses made their agendas quite clear by aiming their venom at Celtic in a week that their darlings at Ibrox fell to a humiliating home defeat to mid-table championship side Queen’s Park in the Scottish Cup, thus failing to secure any silverware in a troubling campaign on and off the park for the latest Ibrox club.

July 1999: Eyal Berkovic of Celtic during their pre-season tour of Norway. Photo: Stu Forster /Allsport

Celtic’s ‘Subway Loyal’

Is that a coincidence? I think not. Firstly on Saturday in the aftermath of our 3-0 victory over Dundee United the Record wasted no time in uploading an article comparing our supporters to the [subway loyal]of the Ibrox support due to the number of visible empty seats at the conclusion of our comfortable 3-0 win over the Tannadice side.

Really? We convincingly won over the side that started the game in third place to go 16 points clear at the top, with several of our first team players on the bench due to their efforts in a spirited midweek showing against Bayern Munich, and that’s the headline that merited our efforts?

27 December 1999: Eyal Berkovic of Celtic is watched by Lorenzo Amoruso of Rangers during the Scottish Premier League match at Celtic Park . Photo: Michael Cooper /Allsport

Berkovic blasting Celtic supporters with made up stories

Next up it was The Scottish Sun who yesterday ran an article which had ex Celt Eyal Berkovic blasting our supporters for The Green Brigade’s ‘Show Israel the Red Card’ campaign that was launched at the Champions league clash with Bayern Munich.

They allowed the £5.5 million flop to criticise our supporters with his clear fabricated tales whilst missing the entire objective of our supporters clear message which incidentally has warmly been mirrored by multiple other fan bases across the world, as is clearly shown on social media.

The Green Brigade hold up a banner reading SHOW ISRAEL THE RED CARD in solidarity with Palestine during the UEFA Champions League Play-off First Leg match between Celtic and Bayern München at Celtic Park on February 12, 2025. (Photo by Ian MacNicol/Getty Images)

To get a flavour of Eyal Berkovic’s time at Celtic have a read through his player profile on The Celtic Wiki, which was written years ago.

Red cards to the red tops

On top of the red card to Israel, I reckon that we should also show the red card firmly in the faces of these rags, whose circulations are falling through the floor. Their agenda is quite clear and it’s clearly all they have – pandering to the Celtic haters. Which is quite pathetic really.

Celtic has a very strong fan media with sites like this one, numerous others plus podcasts, You Tube channels and plenty of social media outlets on top. This is the modern media which relatively speaking is trusted and held in much higher regard by the Celtic support.

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