I don’t mean to be disrespectful- then David Martindale explains why Livingston win the league every season!

David Martindale doesn’t want to be disrespectful to Celtic but in a bizarre league where you work out how many points you win for pounds spent Livingston would come out on top of the pile every season.

What he said is probably factually true but equally pointless as sport is about winning contests with Celtic currently sitting with 64 points from 23 matches- twice the amount that Wednesday’s opponents have collected from one match less.

Livingston perform well, their plastic pitch and style of play doesn’t attract many fans or much admiration but their league position does put Aberdeen and Hibs to shame.

Where Celtic fit in with Martindale’s logic is difficult to work out- almost as difficult as the thinking of the Livingston boss that his comments to club TV won’t be picked up elsewhere.

With a 24 hour rolling sports media every club tweet, website report and interview is scrutinised, anything out of the ordinary that Martindale says will be picked up by others, possibly by BBC and Sky Sports who he is hoping to exclude from his comments after drawing with Hearts.

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Hearts probably have six to eight times our budget, Celtic 40, 40 times our budget.

I’ll say this on ours, I wouldn’t say it publicly on Sky television or BBC because I think it’s a wee bit, not disrespectful – because Celtic have earned the right, earned the right to spend that money on players through their success

But you talk about points per pound collectively in the league we win it every year. If you were to split the points into pounds and divide that by the budget we would win the league every single season.

Martindale looks out of his depth with those comments, it is unlikely to draw much in the way of a reply from Ange Postecoglou when he meets the media tomorrow.