Walker: “Frank, your next port of call should be someone on the Celtic board. Honestly, get them on the side and see where you can take it.” That’s a point so sensible that Walker is left with three options; to offer a rebuttal and a reason why this shouldn’t happen, to agree with it and concede the point or to waffle and try to move the subject to safer ground. its was like the asterix years very good and when watching it I could genuinely feel my blood boil. Again, Walker has blundered by asking the guy for his thoughts on why Celtic have never commented if they believe this.

That all said I came away from this book feeling a little disappointed. It’s advertised as a story about the culture that created the Lanarkshire Referees Association (LRA) and the majority of it is but it also has chapters on other areas. Lengthy pieces on Jim Farry, Campbell Ogilvie, discussion about Celtic’s current CEO and who may take over from him in the future and how Fergus rebuilt Celtic after 1994. These had a feel of padding out the book a little and came across as more like blog pieces which may well have been Paul’s intention. They were interesting in their own ways but were only loosely connected to the main story and felt a bit out of place. There are also quite a number of references to Paul’s previous books which is ok in context but it started to feel a bit like subliminal advertising after a while. Instead of merely listing all the dark deeds against Celtic over the years, the author explains why they happened, and more importantly who was behind it, and the thinking behind them. The first red flag was probably on the day that the Hoops were presented with the SPFL trophy after that Aberdeen match.If someone has a sound and rational answer as to what we can do about this obvious miscarriage of justice and decency I want to hear it. If there’s a way to ensure this type of thing never happens again I want to hear it. In this they have willing allies and co-conspirators in folk so depraved that they have weaponised child abuse in their own version of the culture war. These are the people we have “offended.” Frank: “What’s rigged Andy is we have won it, despite the officials, despite what’s going on the pitch.”

For years it’s been fairly common knowledge that a section of our fans is Irish Republican, anti-monarchist and left wing. Emerging from a trophyless season and forced to bring in free agents, suddenly, their prospects suddenly look brighter. Walker’s second attempt to deflect the point doesn’t meet with any more success than the first. A pitiful attempt is easily parried … and the guy brings to the fore the point he’s been looking to make, and he springs it on Walker like an ambush. Then Walker, who is not used to being challenged in this manner does what every trainee lawyer knows never to do; he asks an open ended question without thinking, without an inkling of what the answer might be. Right now, I see no reason why the club won’t make a strong, coherent appointment. Muscat sounds the best in that regard, but Maresca fits the bill well enough.We’ve won half a dozen games this season where “Honest Mistakes” have resulted in the sorts of decisions which might otherwise have proven costly. I always say the best time to have this debate is right now, when we’re winning, when officials have failed to stop us from securing the points, and now our enemies are actually using that against us!