Aidan Smith: Fifty years on from Turnbull's Tornadoes they've really Hibsed it this time

Stephen Robinson said it was inevitable. A cast-iron certainty that after a spell away he would return to “the madness of Scottish football”. But you’ve got to wonder: did he ever think it would be as mad as this?

As mad as four top-flight bosses probably wishing they were still on their summer hols and even prepared to take their chances amid the raging wildfires of France, Greece and Spain.

As mad as these guys managing to irritate sizable chunks of their clubs’ fanbases by the middle of July. As mad as polls being organised for the likeliest sacking before the new campaign has properly begun.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was a 1963 American movie comedy about the slapstick pursuit of a ton of money buried somewhere in the deserts of California.

It’s a mad, mad, mad, mad season looks like being the story of 2022-23 in Scotland - and that’s before the juddering introduction of VAR and the juddering interruption caused by the World Cup.

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World starred, among a host of madcap stars, the Three Stooges. The four poor schmucks are Robinson, Callum Davidson, Lee Johnson and Graham Alexander.

It only seems like yesterday that St Mirren fans were grudgingly and grumpily allowing Robinson the chance to rip it up and start again; that Davidson’s St Johnstone escaped relegation by the hair of their chinny-chin-chins with the promise that next time it would be different; that Hibernian after sacking two managers within four months were telling their supporters they’d finally got it right with Johnson; that Motherwell’s players were somersaulting across Fir Park having qualified for Europe.

It only seems like yesterday because it more or less was. There’s been virtually no time between one season ending