Within touching distance of the Scottish Parliament Hearts and Hamilton were involved in shameful scenes as they scrapped out a 1-1 draw.
Bobby Madden was in charge of the mayhem that saw Craig Levein and his assistant Austin McPhee ordered to the stand.
It was a stormy affair between two mid table teams that saw ten players booked, one red carded and the police moving in to keep the peace in the dug out area.
The SPFL are duty bound to launch an enquiry but may find events over taken by the police.
In 2011 a touchline clash between Neil Lennon and Ally McCoist following a match in which three Rangers (IL) players were sent off resulted in a high level Scottish Government summit and the creation of the Offensive Behaviour at Football and Threatening Communications Act 2012.
Since returning to Tynecastle Hearts have recorded three draws with Celtic due to visit on Sunday December 17.
