Scottish politicians,media and wider civic society are complicit in creating an environment where Sellik fans -and their club- feel like they can do anything they like without sanctions.
In fact they have bent over backwards to facilitate this.
Referees, like anyone, should not have to suffer threats or intimidation.
But this hasn't just happened in a scottish oasis of calm and tranquility where refs have been supported and lauded.
There has been a form of aggressive lobbying from the top of one football club ever since the Dougie McDonald incident, this set a tone and agenda that their fanbase carried relentlessly without counter or repercussion.
The referee strike and why it happened has been erased from history. That should have been a watershed moment - it wasn't
They continued as they started to see results from the pressure, and successive CEOs / chairman / managers of Celtic maintained the tone and pressure - explicit and implicit. And now here we are.
Rangers have occasionally spoke up when they feel the need, but nothing as concerted and pernicious as Celtic's 15yr campaign.
This statement tells a story much higher than Beaton got threats because of Wednesday night, but most don't want to tell it.
@TheQuietKid18 I couldn’t even look at the players btw. Sicked by them. Complete let downs losing 3 games and this time of the season they don’t deserve support.
Swinney promised he would be a First Minister for ALL of Scotland, but his first act pours scorn on the 383,425 Scots who voted for Reform.
No matter. He may shut us out from his cosy club, but he cannot stop their voices being heard in Holyrood!