Who will break the silence at the SFA?
TEN days on and silence still reigns at Hampden over the strange business of the lesser-spotted Brian McClair sliding off into the night.
We did get a short statement at the time with comments from Stewart Regan and the erstwhile performance director, but that’s been it. No detail on what happens next, what went wrong or what can be salvaged from the wreckage of the youth football programme.
We must understand, of course, that these are busy times at the SFA with the great debrief ongoing into how the Scottish Cup Final turned from a football match into the real-life re-enactment of The Hunger Games.
It is more than 10 weeks since the return of mounted police and swollen-bellied boozehounds kicking lumps out of each other to our showpiece occasion. We are, however, still waiting for the independent inquiry, presumably interviewing every one of the 50,000 folk in the ground, into all that post-match exuberance to offer its findings.
Think heads will roll? Think someone, somewhere, might even admit they made a ricket of it? That makes two of us.
Still, at least there’s the World Cup qualifying campaign to look forward to. Fresh from taking a central role in turning the European Championship from a pleasing exhibition of highquality entertainment into a bloated vindication of hanging on for a draw, it still hurts that we didn’t even make it there. So much to talk about. And, yet, nobody seems to have an awful lot to say.