Euro farce is no laughing matter for sorry Hoops

You know it has been a weird week when an online parody gets repeated as fact and hardly anyone blinks an eye.

It happened when the football world was trying to get it’s head around Celtic’s defeat to Lincoln Red Imps.

Whoever was writing the script for Sky Sports News confused fact with fiction when trying to explain to viewers just who this team was that had beaten a former European Cup winner.

The Red Imps have an average attendance of 28, the presenter told the pundit who had been lined up to put the boot in.

They are not allowed to train on their pitch on a Tuesday because the ground is used by the local metal detecting society, apparently. Aye, it’s Astroturf, by the way. There was other stuff in the online mock-up too but it was all a wind-up. Part of a gag that some folk took too seriously.

Unfortunately that’s where were are at with this Red Imps carry on.

The real-life scenario is just as daft as the parodies.

The part-timers really did have a copper up front who scored the winner. Thei r captain real ly did come off a nine-hour shift in the customs office.

They were an amateur club until 2013. There are a hundred more examples of why Tuesday was one of the biggest shocks in European football history.

And it’s exactly why it has been embarrassing, no matter what the Celtic camp say.

If embarrassed wasn’t the phrase then maybe sorry seemed to be the hardest word, for everyone concerned.

Sorry for making an a*** of it guys, inviting ridicule from all over the globe.

Scottish football takes enough of a kicking without us dropping our drawers for a free boot.

Even the English version of a tabloid paper carried Celtic’s result as their back page lead on Wednesday. One national radio station took great delight in taking the mickey all day.

Celtic shouldn’t be locking themselves away from the