Leigh Griffiths

I don't know that team.

 

If he keeps the head down, that's a good signing for Falkirk. Can he keep the head down though? that's the question. Hopefully the drop down to league one is a wake up call for him

 

Another last chance.

 

Good luck to Falkirk

 

I hope Falkirk get relegated.

 

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Daft wee * will be stacking shelfs in Tesco in a few year.

 

Good luck on your new adventure teacake!

 

Ye kidding he will actually need to put a shift in

 

Good pose to hide that belly.

 

Wonder how long until he falls out of favour there.

 

Saturday probably.

 

Leigh Griffiths has slammed Scottish football’s hate-filled rumour mill and labelled Kris Boyd“a hypocrite”.

The former Celtic striker took aim at the Sky Sports pundit for personal attacks, both on air and in a weekly newspaper column, as well as shooting down malicious stories which have circulated about his own private life.


In an astonishingly frank and honest account of his eight years as a Hoops player, the current Falkirk hitman told MailSport admits he’s become an easy target for the critics.

But Griffiths insists Boyd has been too desperate to put the boot in as he reignited a running feud between the pair which saw the former Rangers goal machine banned by Dundee last September for comments made about the dark blues loan star which he believes crossed a red line.

He said: “I know the backlash I’m going to get from this article, I know what Scottish football is like.

“Other managers and pundits will come out and say, ‘Leigh never did this right and never did that right.”


They are only saying that now as they want to stay relevant.




They want to make a name for themselves, I get that and I get guys like Kris Boyd.

“But why don’t they just allow me to play football without trying to embarrass me?

“I never retaliate. The exception has been Boyd. He was doing his punditry when I scored against Kilmarnock at Rugby Park.


He had been saying things about me in the background but he will know what it’s like to be put under the microscope by the media, fans and everything else in his career as a player.

“He goes on about mental health and his charity but feels it’s okay to keep battering and battering on about me and what he thinks I’m doing wrong. It’s hypocrisy and double standards.”




Griffiths is determined to get his career back up to the level where he was scoring goals for both Scotland and Celtic but he admits social media gossip and lies have painted a false impression of a player who just wants to focus on football.

He said: “I hear some of the stories which have been doing the rounds about me. Some of them are so ridiculous and I wonder where they come from. I remember when I was off work in 2019 and some of the stories I heard about myself and my kids would hear were unbelievable. Some were worse than others but there was one that I was taking cocaine.

“They have pictures about everything these days, surely if I was taking cocaine someone would have put up a picture of that.




It’s just more of this false perception which I get.


Social media is one of the best things which has happened but it’s also one of the worst.



It provides a platform for people to say exactly what they want without any repercussions.

“Two of my kids are about to turn eleven years-old and one of them has been getting a bit of abuse at school about what happened with me last summer. Her mum has told her to try and ignore it

“If I had a pound for every message of abuse I’ve read about myself then I’d be lying on a beach somewhere set up for life.”

 

Good to see boyd getting aclled out again

 

Leigh Griffiths talks about his last game as a Celtic player being the lowest point in his one-man football melodrama.

Booed by his own fans and after eight years at the club, 261 appearances and 123 goals, the tears started to flow as he realised it
was over.



Arriving as a substitute in a friendly against West Ham, every touch of the ball came with the sound of abuse from a support which once adored him.

The Falkirk striker is once again aiming to prove the doubters wrong and return to the level which made him the most potent marksman for club and country.

But in a brutally-honest interview with MailSport , the 31-year-old insists he’s had his fill of being a hate figure and aims to relaunch his career by setting the record straight.

Griffiths said: “I hate the phrase ‘prove people wrong’. That’s all I seem to hear about Leigh Griffiths. Once Griffiths gets himself fit or once Griffiths gets this or that – there is way too much pressure being put on me.






Now I am getting older I hear people asking where is the guy who once scored 40 goals in one season?

“Where is the guy who scored two free kicks against England?

“My reply is this: Just let me go out and play football. That’s exactly what I want. Just let me enjoy my football, which nowadays is so hard to do.”

Griffiths had been sent home from Celtic’s training camp in Wales as the police carried out a probe which eventually cleared him of wrongdoing over online messages.

But the player admits it led to an afternoon of torment against the Hammers which could have been handled far better.

He said: “I did leave Celtic with regrets about the way it all ended. There was a story about me in the summer which was disappointing from my point of view. I spoke to people at Celtic and the other people involved in the entire investigation process.

“It was established that I hadn’t done anything wrong. That’s when I felt Celtic should have come out and said they had spoken to me and everyone else involved and that nothing had been found and I was free to continue playing and scoring for the club.




Had they done so then that would have been it as there was nothing there.




i was flung back into training and the new manager was absolutely unbelievable with me – I don’t have a bad word to say about Ange. I don’t have a bad word to say about anyone at Celtic.

“Ange had come in and it was his job to get the team up and running and he’s then hit with this bombshell. I had to come back and do a mini pre-season.

“Then I played against West Ham and it’s the lowest I have ever felt in football. I left that game, climbed into the car and drove back home.

“I was crying – that was the point that I knew my time was done at Celtic.

“I said it in the car home, I couldn’t do this any more. It sounds strange but I can’t be a player who is booed both home and away.

“If I was playing at home I was going to be booed by my own fans and the away fans. If I went away from home I’m booed by the home and away fans when I touch the ball.”

There’s a perception of Griffiths which couldn’t be further from the mark and it lies at the heart of Old Firm rivalry.

Taking his share of the blame for incidents which only served to fuel the impression of a player who enjoys courting controversy, he also insists his accusers are doing him a disservice.

He said: “I certainly think they do. Players I hadn’t played with and then met when I moved to a new club and dressing room is proof of that. Let me give you a couple of examples.




I walked into Dundee’s dressing room and there were some big, big Rangers fans there and I was coming from Celtic.

“I’m sure they’d be happy for me to mention them, Jordan McGhee being one of them, Shaun Byrne and Lee Ashcroft are others.

“These are guys who said to my face, ‘I have hated you.’

“They said they didn’t actually know me but because I played for Celtic they hated me. That changed as they got to know me.

“I shared a car up to Dundee with Jordan and he said the perception people have of me is ridiculous.

“I walked into the Falkirk dressing room and that was one of the things Charlie Telfer said about me as well.

“Charlie’s another big Rangers fan and he told me that before I came to the club he didn’t like me.

“He said: ‘I didn’t know you but I didn’t like you but now I think you’re a good guy and don’t have a bad bone in your body.’

“That’s Scottish football in a nutshell. You get tarred with a certain brush and people want to keep putting the brush into the tar to make it thicker and thicker.”




The next chapter in the most colourful of careers is still to be written. Griffiths has changed agents and adopted a fitness regime which includes boxing and a personal trainer to get him back to his best.

There’s a new maturity and appreciation of what’s required. But there’s a long pause from Griffiths before he delivers another blunt assessment of his future.

He said: “I am scared. I think the big clubs, managers, chairmen, boards and fans look at headlines on the front of the paper before getting to know me as a person and player.

 

What must he be thinking when he sees the team we have now and if he had knuckled down he might still be here. Love the boy i really do.club tried to help him but you gotta do it yourself in the end. Hope he finds some good help and i still wish him all the best. Some player on his day and those fans berratng him need to understand mental health is so fragile . I bet lots of our fans now with those cunting tories tax rises energy prices rises benefits cuts etc have serious mental health issues.i know i do for my family .btw i hate tories if you hadnt heard lol. Good luck super. Leigh.HH

 

Hes right about that * boyd though. Vile *.youd think with his poor brothers death he Would have had sympathy for leigh or those with mental health issues.did he *..HH

 

You would think he would know by now, let your football do the talking Leigh and leave social media alone.