THE decision to stage the two Betfred Cup semi-finals on one day at Hampden is bonkers for me, with concerns for safety threatening to overshadow the whole occasion for Rangers, Celtic, Hearts and Aberdeen.

I think the SPFL have taken a huge gamble by hosting four teams in Glasgow with such massive fan-bases on the one day, and it’s a gamble I certainly wouldn’t have been willing to take if I was the one making the decisions.

Leaving aside the obvious difficulties it gives some fans of even making the games, it looks set up to be a powderkeg of a situation.

The authorities - the police and the league - seem confident that it will all pan out okay, and I really hope that is the case.

I don’t know if it has been a decision to satisfy the television company who has paid for the rights or what the reasoning behind the decision is, but the biggest concern now is that everyone who goes to the matches returns home safely.

I just think that it seems as though it could be a recipe for disaster, but the truth is at the moment that no one knows for certain how it will all play out. But that is rather the point. It is unprecedented, and maybe there is a very good reason for that.