Baby talk in big boy's playground - Hugh Keevins
His team were not good enough to win and paid the price for falling beneath an acceptable standard.
There is nothing quite like a Celtic or Rangers supporter when the day has not gone well.
The old Nokia might be a twenty-first century anachronism in the world of telecommunications, but it can still pick up on petulant nonsense via text message as efficiently as any state of the art piece of machinery.
Not long after the final whistle had gone at Tynecastle on Sunday two messages sent by the same person arrived for me.
The first was to allege that Hearts were cheats.
"They cheat themselves and they cheat their fans," it said.
The next communique, one minute later, added, "No league win since March and then they turn up against the league leaders."
Two observations at this point, the first being that Hearts are still without a league win at home since March. The game against Rangers was drawn.
The second observation I would make, however pedantic it may seem, is that Rangers were not league leaders when they arrived at Tynecastle.
They were one point behind Celtic and obliged to play the game of catch-up in Edinburgh.
Thank goodness, then, for Steven Gerrard and his honesty.
Rangers manager said he had, "absolutely no complaints" about the outcome of the game.
His team were not good enough to win and paid the price for falling beneath an acceptable standard.
It's not hard to admit shortcomings on the day, is it?
Unless you're an Old Firm fan with a built-in sense of entitlement.
The call of the season to Superscoreboard so far was arguably the one from the Celtic fan who argued Livingston had "spoiled the game" against Neil Lennon's side two weeks ago.
Quite how you spoil a game in which Livingston scored two goals and Celtic could have played all day without putting the ball in the net is still not immediately apparent to me.
It was a point of view as bewildering as the caller's assertion that Celtic's Ryan Christie had been sent off while trying to protect himself from injury in that game.
Christie subsequently came out with a full apology for the undeniably reckless and foolhardy nature of his challenge on a completely innocent opponent.
This apology was issued after Christie had been forced to flee social media in the wake of online abuse from supporters of his own team.
The moral to the story is that you really should do the decent thing and and own up to deficiency if your team drops points in places where they really ought not to be leaving points behind.
No baby talk in the big boys’ playground.
Why make yourself look foolish by sticking your thumb in your mouth and blaming everybody else for your own team's failings?
This is what separates professionals who know something about the game, like Gerrard, from the emotionally overwrought.
Heaerts were better than they have been for months. That's not cheating.
Did Rangers cheat their fans by being less ruthless than they were while scoring fourteen goals for the loss of none in the three league games prior to visiting Tynecastle?
Of course not.
They had a bad day and paid a price.
Away games could determine the outcome of the title race this season.
Celtic could, in the event of finishing second, understandably look back with some regret on the five points dropped at Hibs and Livingston.
Neil Lennon will also appreciate that Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Sunday will be a greater examination of his side's title credentials than either of those games.
Celtic and Rangers should be capable of negotiating all of their home games this season without suffering a single defeat, unless they're playing each other in a derby.
But if points are dropped on the road it won't be directly as a result of the other side raising their game for the occasion.
It'll be because of a double edged sword.
They played well and you didn't play well enough.
And Old Firm fans who think it's unfair of teams to raise their game against Rangers or Celtic should really resist the urge to say that out loud in public.
Or send a message to the old Nokia expressing the same, juvenile sentiment.
If Celtic and Rangers beat Lazio at home and Porto away respectively on Thursday night, and I hope they do, might it be that our clubs have raised their game against Serie A opponents and a former Champions League winner?
And nothing wrong with that, I'm sure you'll agree.