Celtic fans' Rangers fixture conspiracy fears are all well and good except for one thing
It's just what we expected. The super computer the SPFL uses to sort out the fixtures has got it in for YOUR team.
This American based AI machine clearly hates Celtic. Or Rangers. Or Aberdeen. Or maybe Falkirk.
Maybe it’s so biased it hates them all. Nothing is impossible in Scottish football.
We’ve even got Hamilton Accies playing at Clyde’s former Broadwood home – and Clyde setting up shop in New Douglas Park or whatever it’s called these days.
Releasing the fixtures into the wild tends to prompt the usual tin foil hat responses. Fans look for conspiracies, search for clues to prove league chiefs are determined to stick a spoke in their wheels.
Here’s a newsflash folks – everyone needs to play everyone else, the when shouldn’t really matter.
It does though, of course. And within minutes of the schedule coming out the grumbles started.
Celtic punters are up in arms at the indignity of having Flag Day on the Sunday at half four, a full day after their old chums Rangers get up and running.
It’s all to give Russell Martin a leg up, of course, except Celts have only actually kicked off a title defence on a Saturday once in the last five.
Meanwhile Gers supporters are already miffed they have a Saturday night job to start their season – and they have another one the following week, all in the middle of a European qualifying bid.
Aberdeen, meanwhile, need to wait a full two days after being hit with a Monday night trek to Tynecastle.
Fans love a gripe and the grumbles will only get worse when the penny drops that these fixtures are very much a rough draft.
Depending on how our teams do in Europe there could be more shuffling than on barn dancing night at the Tannochside Miners Club.
Let’s be honest here, when it comes to