It's good for the game. Honestly.
Hearts beating Rangers is good for the image of our game.
And before there is any danger of structural damage or any need to call Police Scotland, St. Johnstone beating Celtic on Wednesday night would be good for the game's reputation as well.
A reversal for either half of Glasgow's Premiership teams, or both, contradicts the growing notion, or fear, that we are a two team country and the rest of the game is an irrelevance.
There are five major clubs in Scotland. So far this season, three of them have been major causes for concern.
Aberdeen? Going from bad to worse and booed off the park by the diehard fans who were willing to travel all the way to Paisley to see them on Sunday.
Hibs? In and out under Jack Ross, the club's second manager of the season due to their indifference.
Hearts? Bottom of the league and a laughing stock. Until now.
When the bottom club beats the side who aspire to be league champions it is a pivotal result that lifts credibility and will surely elevate Hearts to safety over the coming weeks.
If it's accepted only Celtic or Rangers can win the title then it's surely better they should have to work for it rather than have it decided by who wins most of the matches they play against each other.
Steven Gerrard was, as always, honest, open and truthful in his analysis of the Rangers team he did not recognise at Tynecastle.
Few people, if any, saw that result coming. But the consequences arising from it could be huge.
As I may have mentioned before, a draw is a disaster and a defeat is a catastrophe for Rangers and Celtic as they pursue the bitter contest that is alternatively known as the league championship.
What word would encapsulate the failure to take a catastrophe and make capital from it?
Stupid might cover it.
Celtic have therefore to avoid a bout of stupidity when they go to Perth on Wednesday night
It's a strange one at McDiarmid Park. On and off the park.
St. Johnstone have given Celtic's support three stands to fill in an experimental move inspired in part by what the Perth club perceive to be apathy on the part of their local community when it comes to getting behind the club.
The extent to which the habitually supportive locals will take the huff over the decision to give the Celtic fans the run of the ground will be measured by the number of unoccupied seats in the only stand open to the St. Johnstone following.
Tommy Wright's team beat Kilmarnock at the weekend but, then again, everybody does that these days as seven consecutive defeats for the Ayrshire side will surely confirm.
Wright has publicly denounced the club for its failure to bring in new players during the transfer window and also stated after the win over Kilmarnock that he had absolutely no intention of taking back a single, condemnatory word of his pre-match rant.
It's hardly the kind of backdrop to Wednesday's match which is likely to inspire confidence in a team who lost seven goals to Celtic on the opening day of the league season.
But how will the offer of additional seating go down with the travelling public?
It's a school night. It's a distance away. It's live on television. And there'll be some fans still waiting on the first wage packet of the new year to drop into their bank accounts.
I wouldn't be confident of raking in additional revenue on a lip-smacking scale if I was the St. Johnstone chairman, Steven Brown.
Greig Taylor will get a game at left back for Celtic before that happens.
What is going on with regard to a player bought for a fee in excess of two million pounds, but who is second or even third choice in the pecking order exercised the minds of some callers to Superscoreboard on Saturday night.
It is possible to win by three clear goals and still find room for discussion on various aspects of the game, or so you would think.
Ross County had conceded ten goals to Celtic in two previous meetings this season but they apparently missed several chances to score in the first half of Saturday's game.
It is allowable to commend Odsonne Edouard for his goalscoring prowess while pointing out that Celtic can be something less than resolute at the back.
After all, I wasn't the one who berated Christopher Jullien for his laxity during the tense moments.
That man would have been Celtic's captain, Scott Brown, according to eye witness accounts.
And I don't buy the one about the back four being unused to each other and only brought together due to injury and illness affecting Jeremie Frimpong and Kristofer Ajer.
A five million pound right back. A seven million pound centre back. A Croatian international beside him and a left back brought from Aberdeen for a fee in excess of a million pounds.
And they're uncomfortable playing against a bottom six club in front of their own fans at Celtic Park?
Come on.
Some Celtic fans regard any objective analysis as being part of a conspiracy to undermine a team in pursuit of Nine in a Row.
One day we will all look back on this particular period in Scottish football's history and wonder why we allowed ourselves to get sucked into this blatant madness.
Opinions are not an invitation to start a fight. They're just opinions.
The outcome of the title race might come down to who scores most goals, Edouard or Alfredo Morelos.
It will also be partly determined by which side's defence is the more dominant.
Rangers flunked an exam in Edinburgh on Sunday. Celtic need to avoid doing the same on Wednesday in Perth.
The horse bearing a gift has wandered into their coral. Will they look it in the mouth?