Tam McManus fears away allocation slash is out of SPITE and warns clubs are in danger of cutting their own throats

There's a cold war being played out in the boardrooms and corridors of power within Scottish football.

Double agent McManus has been on the case for a while now and it's about to go nuclear. As Aberdeen became the latest club to slash away allocations and there's a clear and present danger to the health of our game.

First it was Rangers, cutting off the allocation to Celtic fans, Celtic followed suit and then we had the likes of St Mirren, Kilmarnock and St Johnstone taking that lead. You can picture chief executives across the Premiership pushing the button on reducing the tickets for rival clubs and its mutually assured destruction or MAD if it's allowed to continue for the long-term.

We all want to see a big away support, particularly Celtic and Rangers, you want to generate the type of atmosphere which our game is renowned for. Old Firm games are so much better when there's 8000 fans of each club at the opposing grounds, it's become tit-for-tat by cutting allocation which brings me to a story about passion killers.

The front page headline of a Sunday national newspaper screamed: 'HIBS STARS IN 14 HOUR BENDER.' It had pictures of us inside a strippers club and I still have the article, it read. 'McManus had to be repeatedly warned about the 'no touching rule, by the sexy hostess.'

My mum wasn't happy, neither was the club as I was fined a week's wages. The following weekend we played Dundee United at Tannadice with Ian Murray scoring a last minute winner for us. Up at Shed End, the Dundee United fans were heckling throughout the game one guy in particular kept shouting 'You're a disgraceful pervert McManus.'

I won and then converted a penalty to cancel out David McCracken's opener for the home side. That was the cue