I felt like a teenager again after Ian Maxwell went all bah humbug in Sky row over mic'd up Hibs boss Nick Montgomery

It was a phrase that used to drive us nuts back in the days when we only had four television channels and teenage boys were sent into a state of frenzied excitement when one of them showed a foreign movie with a wee red triangle in the top corner.

Except for viewers in Scotland…It tended to be on the Beeb when a belter of a show was due to be on at prime time, but us north of the border had to wait an extra few hours as we were getting to see some local programme about an Elgin granny who’d knitted a new cottage or something.

And perhaps that was why some folk got excited about the prospect of something being screened only in Scotland this week. The promise of an added dimension to the Edinburgh Derby with Hibs boss Nick Montgomery mic’d up during the action, cranked up interest from the neutrals as well as the armchair diehards.

But then Ian Maxwell went all bah humbug and pulled the plug. In fairness to the SFA chief, he sits on these IFAB rule maker meetings and spotted a few red flags with the plan. It sparked an almighty row with broadcasters Sky, the SPFL and the SFA down the Hampden corridor. Yet it’s hard not to see this whole stooshy as nothing more than a breakdown in communication – that left the armchair fans short changed. The finger-pointing and buck passing doesn’t help anyone but this falling out should be what shrinks and nursery staff would call a teachable moment.

Should Sky, the SPFL and Hibs have told the SFA the big plan long in advance? The idea was in the pipeline for months and it might have been a shout to let the big bosses know, especially when their referee were going to be dragged into the show. But the SFA didn’t need to take the ball away altogether. The conversation should have been,