SO it's goodbye to Dallas, but unlike the would-be assassin of John Ross Ewing II on tv these many years ago, we know who pulled the trigger on Hughie. Well, Stewart Regan did the firing, but the wide-spread perception is that Celtic made the bullets.
Of course, Lord Reid will never admit to this, after all, as a member of a British cabinet who swalllowed, hook, line and sinker, Tony Blair's, George W Bush's and Alistair Campbell's lies, thereby condemning hundreds of thousands to die in the second Iraq war, he has previous in saying: "It wisnae me, a big boy did it and ran away".
There is further public perception that Celtic were "after" Dallas for years, now they've got him, with a little bit of help from the Roman Catholic Church, an institution of which, let's not forget, Celtic FC has long been seen as the footballing arm.
The whole Whistlegate affair has been another text book example of the British media and public in one of its rare bouts of moral rectitude. Such affairs demand a scapegoat or two and now Dallas has been got, there is real pressure on Dougie McDonald.
Funny how the letter from the Catholic church in Scotland's spinmeister helped get Hughie the sack. That a body which has made cover-ups of paedophilia and child abuse an art form should get so upset at a dodgy e-mail poking quite fun at it is taking post-modern irony to extremes.
The whole episode makes me more certain than ever that Scottish Football is a fetid swamp which badly needs draining. However, as we all know - when you're up to your arse in alligators, it's difficult to remember that you were meant to be draining the swamp.
I feel this whole sorry mess still has some way to run; it may get more messy still and I don't see Scottish football being the better for the entire exercise.
We're awe doomed, doomed a tell ye.
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