Complaints about game list bias are permanent fixture

IT'S just what we expected. The supercomputer the SPFL use to sort out the fixtures has got it in for YOUR team.

- MICHAEL GANNON

This American-based Al machine clearly hates Celtic.

Or Rangers. Or Aberdeen. Or maybe Falkirk.

Maybe it's so biased it hates them all. Nothing is impossible in Scottish football.

We've even got Hamilton Accies playing at Clyde's former Broadwood home - and Clyde setting up shop in New Douglas Park, or whatever it's called these days.

Releasing the fixtures into the wild tends to prompt the usual tinfoil-hat responses.

Fans look for conspiracies, search for clues to prove league chiefs are determined to stick a spoke in their wheels.

Here's a news flash folks - everyone needs to play everyone else in the league, the 'when' shouldn't really matter.

It does though, of course. And within minutes of the schedule coming out the grumbles started.

Celtic punters are up in arms at the indignity of having Flag Day on the Sunday at half four, a full day after their old chums Rangers get up and running.

It's all to give Russell Martin a leg up, of course - except Celts have only actually kicked off a title defence on a Saturday once in the last five.