Great.

Just what Glasgow Celtic Football Club needs. More insecurity expressed as bitter, angry paranoia with support for terrorism, kidnap, rape, mutilation and racism thrown in for good measure, all falsely presented as virtue. You tarnish the good name of Glasgow Celtic Football Club, as do a small but loud minority that suffers no dissent and seeks to bully and traduce any opposition and sees only what it wants to.

The moral low ground should be left to our rivals, not aspired to.

Criticise the media by all means, but that act comes with consequences for the critic, and you, therefore, invite similar scrutiny and must accept responsibility for your own words. The breathtaking hypocrisy and irony of you criticising the media while making the same mistakes and more yourself is too tempting to ignore and thoroughly deserves to be called out.

Show Israel the red card? Have you thought this through? At all?

Refugees welcome, you say? I’m sure you’ll welcome Eyal and his family as refugees into your home when your Palestinian friends drive them from the river into the sea. Did the Jews not go to Palestine as refugees after the Holocaust? What welcome did they receive?

I recently watched your friends returning the dead bodies of a woman, two children and an eighty-four-year-old man they’ve consciously targetted, kidnapped and held for ransom in exchange for convicted murderers. They’ve sown the wind again and reaped the whirlwind again. They, like previous fascist regimes, are responsible for the consequences of their actions, no one else.

Now, you can hold whatever opinions you like; you talk about opinions a lot. I don’t have any opinions. I have conclusions based on nearly seven decades of experience, evidence and intellect.

You know very little about asylum, refugees or slavery. I have extensive, nearly four decades’ worth of personal knowledge on all three subjects. You won’t like that, but it’s a fact.

I’ve seen your poor literacy before, but this is your worst effort yet.

Only twenty-six spelling and grammar mistakes in this one.

Your ambition is to be an author? Here’s some good advice on writing.

A good start would be to correct the elementary typo mistakes in your biography. You’re a supporter, singular, not ‘supporters’ plural. You started this hobby, not ‘started this a hobby’. Witnessed doesn’t need capitalisation in the middle of a sentence. You cite Celtic at their lowest when you mean the lowest you’ve seen; I’ve seen the best part of thirty years more than you. I know more than you. Pay attention, that’s a recurring theme.

The first thing you need to grasp as a writer is the difference between information, intelligence and evidence. Then, consider the subtle differences between types of evidence, probative, hearsay, written, spoken, filmed, pictured, etc. Then consider the source, reliable or other. Do your research, do it with an open mind, get your facts checked, and avoid myths or prejudice born of indoctrination. Belief is as important as the suspension of it. Don’t contradict yourself. Don’t use the methods of fascism to oppose fascism. Don’t make unfounded or ill-founded allegations.

I’ve sung the songs, heard the stories and taken them as fact, then I grew up, thought for myself and found out the truth. That’s a humbling but ultimately empowering experience.

Other practical, technical and vital suggestions include a grammar, fact and sense check. Try Grammarly or StyleWriter4, although Artificial Intelligence might be a better fit for you. Use an online Dictionary and Thesaurus.

Don’t put ‘it’s’ and ‘it is’ in the same sentence; pick one or the other, but be consistent and use the latter for emphasis in speech.

Re-read what you’ve written at least three times.

Don’t have a big headline followed by lots of words but very little of real substance. Don’t tell the reader what they already know; don’t repeat yourself; that’s just padding often used to give your work a superficial credibility that doesn’t stand up to scrutiny. Padding is also used to ensure the reader scrolls down past as many adverts as possible and, therefore, makes more money. The Record and Sun do enough of that; we don’t need any more.

The worst thing about writing, and you’re feeling it now, is accepting criticism, due or undue, and humble rigorous self-examination isn’t for everyone.

You also need to have something to say that’s worth hearing. Something original and imaginative is always good. Repeating the myths and prejudices of centuries of indoctrination is just plain boring. Be inspired by the past, but don’t live in it.

Some people want to read the same book over and over, others want to write the same book for them again and again. No discerning reader or writer of genuine intellect aspires to that low bar.

Finally, the chances of being a successful author are about a million to one, even if you’re great at it, even if you get really lucky. You should write because you have to, not because you want to. Certainly not to make money or for self-aggrandisement.

Remember the old adage. If at first you don’t succeed, lower your expectations, you might be wasting your time.

Hey, you’ll ask, what do I know about writing? I’m an experienced editor, and I’ve had nine books published to critical acclaim.

One very final point. You don’t speak for me. You don’t speak for Glasgow Celtic Football Club or its fans. You embarrass them. You speak only for yourself and rather poorly, in fact, given the empirical evidence detailed above.