Chief Constable Mark Roberts has been doing the media rounds with what I can only describe as disingenuous agenda-motivated nonsense about football and policing.
He is arguing clubs should pay the full recovery cost of policing matches, suggesting it would allow the Force to put an extra 1,200 officers on the streets. What he proposes as a simple solution to cover for the police's inability to combat crime is actually nothing of the kind. I feel irritation, disdain and concern at his position.
The fact that in all good conscience he feels able to treat the national sport as a political tool, when it contributes more than £5billion-a-year to the Exchequer for departments like his, should be troubling.