The fourth episode of BBC Scotland's over-titled "Icons of Football", focused on their own long-serving match commentator and presenter Archie Macpherson. Me, I've always been more of an Arthur Montford man, but of course Arthur worked for the other side and was never going to get this particular accolade, at least not from the BBC.
There's no denying Macpherson's longevity and that he was present at some of the most famous moments in Scottish football history. Having said that I felt the man himself came across as somewhat pompous and self-important in this half-hour programme. So we got a line-up of current BBC contributors duly assembled to pour such gushing accolades Archie's way, you wondered that they weren't in fact scripted for them.
In some cases Archie's place in our sporting history seemed to me rather overstated. For all the programme was at pains to highlight his presence on the three occasions last century that separate Scottish teams, Celtic, Rangers and Aberdeen almost unbelievably now when you think back on it, actually won the major European trophies of the day, he didn't however get to commentate when Celtic historically won the European Cup in Lisbon in 1967.
I also had to smile at the Beeb's rather obvious equalising of the prominence given those bitter Glasgow rivals, Rangers and Celtic, with a Celtic goal against Rangers immediately balanced out by a Rangers goal against Celtic.
His most famous match commentary would have to be on Scotland's Archie Gemmill's wonderful goal against Holland in the 1978 World Cup, although I always thought his best moment though, while completely ignored, no doubt for reasons already hinted at above, was on the occasion that he denounced the on-pitch rioting by Rangers and Celtic fans after the 1981 Scottish League Cup final when he starkly pronounced, "Let's not kid ourselves, these people hate each other" in so doing courageously calling out the sectarian divide whuch still persists in the city today.
Although I don't count myself the biggest admirer of Mr Macpherson, I was sorry to learn that he has suffered from depression during some part of his life, although happily he seems to be over it now.
Nevertheless I found this one of the weaker episodes to date in the series I think I prefer my Scottish football icons to be those who did their talking on the pitch rather than off it. This puff-piece on its past employee who BBC Scotland would want you to think of as a national treasure, instead came across as rather self-serving and even pointless in the end.