The SFA tell us The Whistleblower "is not being used as the tool of explanation we'd originally hoped" and as such, it will be scrapped.

Furthermore, they will "look at other ways to educate supporters"!

If The Whistleblower provided the truth about poor decisions, or non-decisions, then us dumb supporters wouldn't need educated.

Time after time, the old mantra of a referee being in a poor position was put forward as a reason why decisions were incorrect or missed. Not once, in the two- or three-year history of The Whistleblower, did any referee or the SFA tell us why assistant referees didn't help referees, when it was clear a referee had got something blatantly wrong.

The fact is that stadiums full of so-called uneducated supporters have seen stonewall penalties overlooked by assistant referees for the past couple of years and the SFA failed to address why this was the case.

If referees, or the SFA, really felt The Whistleblower was worthwhile, they would have told the whole truth as opposed to some of the truth.

When referees tell assistant referees not to get involved in decisions within the penalty area in their pre-match instruction, and then fail to tell us uneducated peasants that this is the case, then how are we to be educated?

Had The Whistleblower ever told us the referee got his positioning wrong and told his assistant not to get involved in such crucial penalty area decisions, then perhaps we would have understood why refereeing teams get so many crucial decisions wrong.

As it stands, we will just have to wait for our next SFA lesson which will no doubt be full of more half truths.