I watched Celtic vs Aberdeen from press box and what I didn't see will spark more hard questions over our game

I was in attendance at Celtic vs Aberdeen on Saturday night.

A game that was billed as the best in Scotland right now going at in a hammer and tongs fight for the right to feature in this year’s Premier Sports Cup final, it was a game surely bound to deliver excitement.

Loud, bold, tense, all the things you want from a Scottish football game. Well, that was the first 25 minutes. The next 65 minutes were a Celtic tour de force in brute strength and a 6-0 winning show that proves that they Scotland’s team to beat - and an imperious one at that. Not many will fancy Motherwell or Rangers chances in this competition if Celtic play the final in this style.

Amid that, there was an age-old Scottish football talking point thrust firmly back into the debate pot. Celtic fans co-ordinated a massive pyro display pre-match, with a bunch of red flares donning ‘CFC’ caused a mass of smoke that forced a delay to proceedings. Various spots of pyro were in the Celtic support throughout the game.

The verdict from the Scottish FA was that the game wasn’t able to start as the VAR technology couldn’t track the offside lines due to the smoke. 13 minutes later and the air eventually cleared, visibility restored for most and action could commence. Fireworks night is on Tuesday and I doubt some of the biggest displays will burn as bright as Celtic’s did here.

There were memes - lots of memes -as Right Here, Right Now by Fatboy Slim ironically blared over and over the tannoys. It was kind of the mood of Willy Wonka’s ‘There's no earthly way of knowing which direction we are going and there's no knowing where we're rowing or which way the river's flowing’ vibes. Plenty of things could have been happening on the other side of Hampden we were none the wiser to.

A more serious note to this will be the discussion on pyro and its place in our game. For some, it adds colour and a European-style element to our already usually chaotic product on the pitch. Others will say it’s a health hazard waiting for something serious to kick off.

Celtic were fined €20,000 and handed a suspended away fan ban by UEFA earlier this season after supporters set off fireworks during a Champions League match against Borussia Dortmund. Rangers landed fines of €19,000 and €13,750 for fan use of pyro at Europa League games against Malmo and Lyon. That’s just this season.

They aren’t the only clubs’ fans who light pyro - but incidents with these two clubs only bring such topics further into the spotlight. Brendan Rodgers has accused the responsible individuals in Dortmund of not properly caring about their club and interim Rangers chairman John Gilligan has made public appeals for the illegal practice to stop.

A survey conducted by the Scottish Football Supporters' Association (SFSA) revealed that two-thirds of punters that were surveyed want to see pyro outlawed. On this evidence here at Hampden, it doesn’t appear like warnings and pleas from clubs are being heeded.

So undoubtedly, expect the airwaves and other forums like social to be awash with serious questions over what Scottish football should do with pyro. It falls into the chicken and the egg category of a debate that will never end - but an answer definitively needs to come one way or the other soon.