Sunday Mail Clown Insults Celtic Fans Again In Idiotic Rant Over VAR.

The Sunday Mail’s doddering halfwit was at it again yesterday, writing an article on VAR. As per usual, the central thrust of his argument is that our fans – and, to be fair, the ones across the city – are paranoid lunatics incapable of rational thought.

This is a guy who has made a career out of insulting his own audience.

Quite how he has managed to retain even the smallest fraction of one amazes me as a result.

You would think that folk at that paper have to realise, by now, that he brings no value to their brand … not that their brand is up to much to begin with. So why tolerate him?

The basic thrust of his argument was that ex-footballers would not be trusted to operate the VAR controls. Eh, brilliant deduction genius. We have enough of them working at the BBC, and we’ve watched the skewering of its objectivity.

Besides, the whole point of the debate is that we want people behind those screens who are both competent and qualified … quite why anyone believes ex-pros would be is beyond me.

He thinks an ex-pro would have a keener eye for what’s a foul and what isn’t.

Really? How does he account for the fact that most weekends there is an avalanche of bickering between them about key decisions, with some leaning for the officials and some against? If you put twenty of these people in a room and asked them to analyse a decision you’d get thirty different opinions. That alone makes it a non-starter.

The idea is stupid and its unworkable and it would virtually guarantee bias. The idea is nothing more than a suggestion which was made half tongue-in-cheek by Ally McCoist in relation to Chris Sutton.

That’s how seriously it should be taken.

But it’s not even lending credence to an idea that was never a serious idea in the first place; he went on a rant about the technology and suggested Scotland was some backward country which was never going to adapt to it.

This man has spent his career talking down our game and one of the best things that will happen to the coverage of Scottish football will be when he no longer has a platform from which to do so. He thinks the Scottish football public are Neanderthals, and yet it’s his own views which over and over reveal a reactionary, backwards facing mind-set.

He seems to acknowledge – before contradicting himself – that refs here are pretty incompetent but then blames the technology itself. The technology. As though the hoover is to blame when someone sucks a ping-ball up and blocks the tube.

His claim that Celtic fans would not care if a UN inspector ran VAR and would still protest every bad decision is a colossally idiotic statement. We want people who are qualified, and know what they are doing, but more than that, we just want people who are honest.

It appals me that these people never want to debate this in the proper fashion. Why should we not have qualified ex-refs from outside Scotland to run this? I would not object to that at all. I would welcome in and give them all the support they needed.

All of us would. And by the way, so would the fans across the city.

It is hard to think of any football fan in Scotland who would not.

Yet the media never wants to debate that or the reasons why.

He certainly doesn’t. He wouldn’t know where to start.