Martin Murphy

Celtic’s recent run of three straight defeats has temporarily diverted focus from some controversial refereeing decisions during two earlier September fixtures - moments that once again placed the use of VAR in Scottish football under intense scrutiny. Some sections of the support have even claimed we would be better off without it entirely. I disagree. There is no getting away from it: the version of VAR utilised in Scottish football looks like something sourced from the Barras. It is an...

The news that there will be no away supporters for the Glasgow derbies this season was seemingly inevitable. Nevertheless, this is tinged with some sadness for those of us who remember the Old Firm games of the 1980s and 1990s at Ibrox, with Celtic famously having an allocation not only for the full Broomloan Stand, but also for the old Main Stand with the enclosure underneath. In 1983, we were even allocated part of the Govan Stand (now the Sandy Jardine Stand) in a famous 4-2 Celtic...