I feel strongly about Bomber in Rangers vs SFA fallout and I can explain it all to Cavenagh in jig time – Hugh Keevins

I have paid for the weddings of two daughters off the back of spontaneous, emotional comment.

Forty years worth of payment for listening to, and attempting a reply to, exasperated radio callers who want to get something off their chest in a bronchitic blast.

It would therefore be hypocritical in the extreme if I were to approve of someone being punished for indulging in that particular practice.

Someone like John Brown, for example. Prior to Rangers’ lengthy and indignant response to being fined £3000 by the SFA on Thursday, I had found it hard to work up any level of concern, far less righteous indignation, over the Bomber versus the compliance officer.

The truth is I loved the story because it appealed to every cynical, sarcastic bone in my sceptical body.

Bomber said the decision to disallow a goal for Rangers against Hibs at Easter Road on May 17 was “corrupt.”

In their initial defence of their in-house television channel’s co-commentator, Rangers said in a statement that the words used came under the heading of “spontaneous emotional” comment.

My funny bone was tickled at that point because Scottish football has more conspiracy theorists per capita than any other country in the world. I know. I’ve spoken to most of them over the last four decades.

And if you don’t believe there’s a conspiracy against their team then it stands to reason you must be part of the conspiracy yourself.

Whatever reason is in the context of our game. Every fan in the country thinks the game is bent – particularly those who support Celtic and Rangers. That’s why, on radio, there is what’s known as a seven-second delay button.

This mechanism “loses” a caller in the event of the spontaneous and the emotional turning into the effing and