I don't blame Rangers one bit for Willie Collum fallout as clear Celtic handball had me SCREAMING at my TV - Barry Ferguson

Sometimes it’s hard to know where to start once Scottish football starts kicking itself to bits. We’ve been here before after all.

But, for once, that’s not the case where this ongoing row between Rangers and the SFA is concerned. It’s obvious. It all begins from the moment that Alistair Johnston blatantly punches the ball inside Celtic’s penalty box and a terrible decision is made to pretend it didn’t happen. But what came next - over the course of almost half an hour - has now brought the game in this country back to boiling point with my old club demanding answers from the men in charge at Hampden.

And I must be very clear here, I don’t blame them one bit. What we need in this country, where VAR is concerned, is less secrecy and more transparency. But what we got at Celtic Park during that baffling 30 minutes, was completely the opposite. What seems obvious to me is that the process broke down at a critical moment in a massive match.

First of all, I have no issue with Nick Walsh for not spotting the hand-ball in the first place. These things happen in the heat of the battle and especially in a frantic, high tempo Old Firm match. The man in the middle has an almost impossible job to see everything as it happens and call it all correctly. He’s only human.

But what seems clear is that he believed the ball had gone out of play off Abdallah Sima because he awarded Celtic with a goal kick and that’s how Joe Hart restarted the match. All of which was wrong. There’s no grey areas there. It’s a simple case of black and white.

The whole point of VAR - and the reason the clubs are paying for it - is because at that moment the process is supposed to kick in. Willie Collum could see from the replays that the ref had made a clear