One of the great frustrations of being a Celtic fan writer is that you have to deal, almost daily, with people pushing discredited nonsense that you feel obliged to counter. Sometimes you can let things go. Sometimes you can ignore them. However, this week was not one of those times.

At some point, I was always going to write about the conversation between two of the most spectacularly ill-informed voices in Scottish football commentary, Tam McManus and Alan Rough. The subject was tickets for Ibrox.

Both men spoke from the perspective of people who have not had to pay their way into a football match for years, if ever. They sit inside the commentariat, cushioned from the realities of ordinary supporters. McManus, of course, lived inside the professional bubble as a player before stepping into the media one.

In short, these are people who have taken plenty out of the game, yet who show open contempt for the people who put everything into it. Their attitude towards supporters, particularly those who think for themselves, has been obvious for years. This time, however, their latest suggestion crossed a line.

They argued that fans who boycotted the Dundee game should be...