We may be almost two weeks on from the Scottish Cup final but we are still dealing with the fall out from it.

Only a few days ago Hibs announced that they have issued both temporary and life bans to some of the fans that caused trouble at Hampden, and credit to them for that, but we’ve also had some calls for clubs to be held accountable for the behaviour of their supporters.

For me, strict liability just doesn’t work. If you are on the Hibs board and your fans jump a wall and run on to a pitch, what has that got to do with you?

The wrong people are going to get punished for this, but the question is what are you going to do? You can’t punish the fans without punishing the club. If you ban supporters for cup ties or whatever else, the club doesn’t get any financial benefit from it.

I think the clubs are doing a lot at the moment. Maybe they could do a little bit more.

But in the case of the Old Firm clubs, if some fans are singing these nasty songs the clubs are banning people for it and are doing everything they can. If you have that small percentage on both sides who are intent on singing that, it’s wrong to deduct teams points or whatever else.

It’s wrong to punish those players or coaches who go every week and work their socks off to get it taken away from them because a couple of hundred fans want to sing a song they shouldn’t be.

The police are paid a lot of money by the clubs to police the games. I think more people need to be taken away if they are misbehaving, it’s as simple as that.

Clubs do their utmost to stop sectarian singing and to stop fans going on the pitch and fighting. It’s down to the people themselves.

Every club has a section of their support that couldn’t give a monkey’s about what the directors say. They are going to cause trouble either before or after the game, what can the club do about that? Once the match finishes and these punters head into town to cause trouble, how can they be responsible for that as well? A club can’t police every single person that goes into a ground.

To start taking points off clubs is asking for trouble. They won’t take that lying down and they will then look at the police. The stewards cannot do anything, they are paid a pittance. If the police aren’t doing anything then why are they there?

They have to act more responsibly. It’s a hard job for them but if there is a small section of people causing problems, no matter what club, you have to sort it out fairly quickly.

The clubs are doing their best. There will be those who say they’re not, but it’s just lip service. Talks of bans, fines, points deductions, it’s all rubbish.

This is a problem all over our country and down south as well. If people can’t behave it’s not necessarily a football problem, it’s the individuals themselves that need to be brought to task.

The only way to stop that inside a football ground is for the authorities to act and to act quickly.

All of this has come about after a game at Hampden, so it’s the Scottish FA’s responsibility to ask questions. They need to get to the bottom of this.

Something similar happened to us in 1972 when Rangers won the Cup Winners’ Cup in Barcelona.

Obviously the fans were excited and came on to the pitch, but they couldn’t goad anybody because Dynamo Moscow didn’t have any supporters at the game!

But within a couple of weeks we were banned for two years just for running on the pitch, never mind doing anything else. After appealing it we got done for a year.

And that’s why I think it’s wrong. The players have done nothing wrong, you can’t take it out on them.

Having said all of this, something does have to be done. The authorities have to be seen to be doing something.

Once players are getting allegedly attacked and safety becomes a concern, where do you go from there? Football is finished.

There has to be a severe penalty. The SFA are going to have to sit down and really have a think about this.

Do you say that2 nobody can be in the ground for certain games either domestically or in Europe?

This has probably been the most serious incident since 1980. This is different, in my eyes it’s far, far worse than that ever worse.

Goodness knows what will happen or what the punishment will be. Whatever it is, it must be heavy as this simply can’t happen again.