🤬 Pic 1 - ‘Top of the foot’
🤬 Pic 2 - ‘Not seen enough to give a penalty’
🤬 Pic 3 - ‘It definitely hits the arm’
That’s 3 utterly embarrassing decisions and the VAR review show was amateurish, at best.
So what’s the solution?
First up, Iain Maxwell, Chief Exec of the SFA, says nothing. Does nothing. He’s a puppet.
What about Willie Collum?
The former referee has been in charge of our officials for TWO YEARS.
Our referees are getting worse under his watch, in my honest opinion.
What should happen?
COLLUM NEEDS SACKED.
#WillieCollum #Referees
Celtic fans didn't trash the city, fight with each other, attack police or sexually assault a child because they won the league it turns out they did it because a Catholic was hanged there 400 years ago...
Referees, like anyone, should not have to suffer threats or intimidation.
But this hasn't just happened in a scottish oasis of calm and tranquility where refs have been supported and lauded.
There has been a form of aggressive lobbying from the top of one football club ever since the Dougie McDonald incident, this set a tone and agenda that their fanbase carried relentlessly without counter or repercussion.
The referee strike and why it happened has been erased from history. That should have been a watershed moment - it wasn't
They continued as they started to see results from the pressure, and successive CEOs / chairman / managers of Celtic maintained the tone and pressure - explicit and implicit. And now here we are.
Rangers have occasionally spoke up when they feel the need, but nothing as concerted and pernicious as Celtic's 15yr campaign.
This statement tells a story much higher than Beaton got threats because of Wednesday night, but most don't want to tell it.