No one enjoys hearing painful home truths. Least of all the flat earthers who would rather stick their fingers in their ears than acknowledge Scottish football's obvious imperfections.
STEPHEN McGOWAN: Enraged by the absence of the Croatia game from the nation's television screens, the SNP 's Pete Wishart called the situation 'a disgrace' and demanded someone do something.
Never mind who shot JR. In the days when Dallas was the warm-up act for Sportscene, the old gunslingers of British management blew their enemies away with a half-time hairdryer.
When the president of Paris Saint-Germain spoke of making the Champions League bigger than the Super Bowl, it was an instruction rather than a promise.