You’re victim of a costly refereeing failure, what do you do? Celtic wrote to the SFA for clarification. There was no demand for censure of the officials or a ban for the Inverness player.
In 2011, when the SFA were victim of a costly refereeing error against Czech Republic, Association president, Campbell Ogilvie, took it upon himself to write to Uefa demanding the referee who failed to correctly interpret a penalty incident, be marked down, and that the player who dived is excluded from the remainder of the competition. The Daily Record glowingly reported the actions here.
The SFA set a precedent: after being hard done by, demand action against the referee. Don’t just let supervisory processes take their course. This is the standard set by Campbell Ogilvie.
“An SFA spokesman” also made it his business to brief a grateful media on the actions of Mr Ogilvie. This was a coordinated campaign by the SFA against a match official, as well as an attempt to circumvent process.
Is this fair enough? Well, I don’t remember an outcry at the time. A referee made a bad mistake in an important game. Standards should have been higher. The SFA would have been within their rights to say so, although they had no business trying to influence referee supervisory processes. If only we had a competent administrator who would realise this.
Celtic are within their rights to say standards should be higher now and instead of trying to mislead by suggesting no one in the ground was convinced Celtic should have had a penalty, the SFA should acknowledge that standards can and must improve.
Saying that would shut Celtic up and give them nothing to MORE complain about. Instead of being concerned by the actions of SFA referee chief Fleming.
What you will note is the utter contempt shown for your club by many for writing a letter asking for clarification, even from those who lauded Campbell Ogilvie for demanding a referee is demoted. Celtic are the last superpower standing after the Long Cold War, but we’ll always be the enemy to some. We may well win the next 30 league titles, but as long as Campbell ‘What school did you go to?’ Ogilvie is in charge at Hampden, you’ll know what we’re up against.
Great three points last night. Particularly delighted for Gary Mackay-Steven. He, and Stuart Armstrong, are still finding their feet at Celtic. It will be next season before we see the best of them (think Stefan Johansen circa April 2014), but the early signs are encouraging.
Big Virgil had a better record from free kicks than we had from penalties a couple of seasons ago!
Thanks to everyone who registered for the Foundation’s Ben Nevis climb yesterday, trying to get as many confirmed before tomorrow as possible. It’s on 13 June. Last year participants raised £45k, which fed the hungry, sheltered the homeless and aided others in need. Sign up here.
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Dam lyric
Maggie
If the “FFFs” ignore the shenanigans it will go unreported, and be swept under the carpet.
Although the New York Times or Washington Post are not owned by Murdoch.
Yet.
petec
01:50 on 24 April, 2015
Wonderful Life
This was new to me. It’s on my hard drive now.
‘gg
02:54 on 24 April, 2015
An Iraq war for nothing
Millions killed for nothing
Trillions in taxes transferred from the public to private bank accounts
Now that’s what I call a shenanigan
Do you want to go off on another stupid tangent or are we done?
No I’m not done.
I don’t disagree with your assessment, just your selective targeting.
Is Bush the on,y one who merits your attention. What about Clinton, Obama, Regan?
I’m not familiar with the reference of transferring taxes to private bank accounts unless you are talking about war profiteering.
There’s a whole lot more waste and profiteering through influence peddling.
Coneybhoy
02:01 on 24 April, 2015
I may have got it wrong but has petec been asked to say something rational and not under any influence?
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Nae chance.
‘gg
03:08 on 24 April, 2015
Selective targeting? Ok let’s drone on.
I was attempting to compare mibbery shenanigans with the most egregious money grabbing immorality in recent history. Of course I’m neither inclined to sweep anything under the carpet nor do a treatise on global corruption under the auspices of whataboutery as that’s what huns do.
Coneybhoy
Njoi
‘GG 02:58,
Thumbsup
GG …..are we done yet?
Can I kip now or do you have more?
Apologies I was distracted by watching Chasing Classic Cars.
An XK 120 was being featured.
I’m mellow and done…..
For the night.
I’ll be back medicated and feisty tomorrow.
I keep reading about backlogs in Scottish courts,yet cases like this still make it.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/aberdeen-supporter-fined-after-telling-5569810
Bloody ridiculous. Especially when you consider what he could have got away with chanting at us at Celtic Park.
Now that the precedent has been set, and then set aside in precedent, I wonder if the bookies will be offering odds on which team’s player will set the new precedent of being retrospectively charged with deliberate hand ball and stopping a goal and being offered a one game ban with the ban, in precedent, being enforced.
I find it all Keystone, but with filtered hate, as opposed humour, being the objective.
Bmcuwp
Interesting part of the above is that a comment re the IRA was deemed sectarian
All part of the process of widening the description of “sectarian comment”… Couldn’t have anything to do with the attempt to have the term “Hun ” included …could it ??
Kitalba
Keystone …is correct
Should CFC push this issue as they ought the SFA etc will find themselves is a very difficult position
Demand clarification on the refs report and the communication between the officials …then contrast it with the Compliance Officers sham referral
A coach and horses could be driven thro this mob …if there is the will to do it
PF AYR
I couldn’t possibly comment…
….PFayr supports WeeOscar:
It is the ‘will’, or lack of, that shames me the most. But hey it’s Friday, chin up and grasp the carpe diem, after all, the five-way-deceit has eased for a while.
“Yesterday is gone. Tomorrow has not yet come. We have only today. Let us begin.”
― Mother Teresa
“The future depends on what you do today.”
― Mahatma Gandhi
If you’re about next Friday I’ll be in town for the game.
Kit
Seems I’m destined to miss you friend
I’m doing the West Highland Way next week…start on Wednesday finish Saturday …hard shift .. Best part of 100miles …whilst your enjoying your beer on Friday I’ll most probably be dragging my erchie ( slowly ) into Kingshouse …via Rannoch moor
The WHW is great for clearing your head .. Not so great on the feet tho ..HH
Must dash …just back from a weeks holiday in Tenerife ..yesterday…I’m away to the office to see what rubbish had been left for me
bobby murdoch’s curled-up winklepickers
06:03 on 24 April, 2015
I keep reading about backlogs in Scottish courts,yet cases like this still make it.
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/aberdeen-supporter-fined-after-telling-5569810
Bloody ridiculous. Especially when you consider what he could have got away with chanting at us at Celtic Park.
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Morning….
Bizarre one this, I really don’t see sectarian in there or am I wrong.
PFAYR pub Sunday for game or feet up for a few days..
Ayrshire is Green and White
BMCUW et all.
It’s a nice wee bit of token even handedness to parade when the police and courts are shown up as loaded against us, coupled with the nice slipping in of sectarian.
Insidious stuff.
….PFayr supports WeeOscar
I’ve done my time on the WHW. In another life I spent years doing my marathon training going up and down it. Painful memories.
Good morning friends and a Big Happy Friday from an overcast, grey but still bone dry East Kilbride.
8morepointsCSC
When was the last time you seen or heard a pro- Celtic story in the scottish media ???
micktt
06:52 on 24 April, 2015
He was shouting a lot more but they choose only to print the IRA bit that’s for sure
Even Keith Jackson thinks something stinks about the whole Meekings affair and how the SFA handled it. Mind you, he probably wants to know why Celtic were not fined £250K and Griffiths wasn’t given a ten game ban.
Eric Bogle’s take on Gallipoli;
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WG48Ftsr3OI
HH
Just read VVD on the Mail on line,said he couldn’t sleep on Sunday night,
After mccleans decision not give the penalty,I know the feeling big man.HH.
Right, there’s only one thing for it…win the title at Aberdeen and celebrate obnoxious.
That would be nice…
hun skelper
07:08 on 24 April, 2015
micktt
06:52 on 24 April, 2015
He was shouting a lot more but they choose only to print the IRA bit that’s for sure
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Ah got ye…. Yep that makes sense noo.. HH
Ayrshire is Green and White
There are, highly skilled-intelligent-bureauctratic-proffesional sorts of folk who operate within the walls of Celtic Park who will, successfully negotiate ‘all’ obstacles to our clubs ambitions and, folk like me should afford these same folk the time in which to, do the right thing for Celtic……
There is a common thread running throughout all things that happen at the SFA and SPFL.
A masonic cabal is running the game in Scotland from the top executives, through the middle managers, match officials and even junior members of staff.
To get on you have to be in the brotherhood, otherwise you are wasting your time.
McLean and Muir’s fraternal greeting prior to kick off on Sunday tells all. They are so brassed neck that there is no attempt to hide it. A secret society making decisions that effect Scottish football….5 aay agreement anyone.
It’s collusion and corruption at every level, let’s hope UEFA have a close look at the shenanigans behind that Rangers UEFA licence and name those involved…….I think we already have a fair idea.
Not one section of the media has mentioned the grip between the officials on Sunday, probablg all too busy ironing their own aprons for the next ludge meeting.
Lodge Busby I believe for brother McLean.
…………….aye, right!
So the ICT player moves his hand out and up to block the header from reaching the net and according to John Fleming none of the officials seen it allowing the Compliance Officer to raise a case against the ICT player .
The case comes before the committee and they are apparently told ( according to reports online ) that the officials did see it and didn’t think it was a penalty and so they clear the ICT player ??????
Sounds like somebody’s lying to me .
Get into them Celtic
FTSFA
Good morning –
My dear old mother passed away peacefully in hospital just after 10pm last night after a long battle with dementia. She was a few days short of her 87th birthday.
I console myself that her suffering is over and hope and pray that she may now be joyously reunited with her 3 sons, my dearly departed brothers.
My next task is to look out for my father who is understandably in a very bad place.
Thank you.
Kev
The time you speak of is it this lifetime or the next lifetime? . Please expand
L57
tom mclaughlin
Very sorry for your loss. May she rest in peace.
tom mclaughlin
My condolences on the passing of your mum, may she RIP.
davidopoulos
Belated birthday wishes I hope it was a good one.