It's a strange one. A lot of guys I work with are fans of English clubs. Whenever the subject of Celtic's association with paedophiles crops up, most opt out of the conversation and are happy when the talk turns back to results and performances and managerial sackings and other more regular stuff. They'll shake their heads and tut-tut, but without real feeling. It's as if they're fearful of having their view of football as simply a sport sullied by having to think about the enormity of the scandal at Parkhead. Or maybe they attribute my disgust, as a Rangers fan, to bias, and deem it to be disproportionate.
I don't live in Scotland so am not best placed to comment, but from afar it doesn't appear that there is much condemnation of Celtic from fans of Scottish clubs - other than Rangers - either, let alone call for an independent investigation into the club's conduct.
Yet this, surely, is what is needed: a Westminster-led inquiry to shed light on not just the abusers and their crimes but also those, within and outside of the Celtic family, who actively, or by inaction, sought and continue to seek to cover them up or minimise their consequences.
Demotion? Expulsion from the professional leagues? Disbandment? Unlikely for the Establishment club. But, at the very least, Celtic's sanctimony should be stripped bare and their fans and fluffers left bereft of recourse to denial and deflection.
We all need spared from the insult of it, most especially the victims of abuse.