The job of referee has a kind of inverse relationship between popularity and career progress. Willie Collum has been at the centre of this season’s three major controversies. He was referee on two occasions when his assistants failed to notice Celtic conceded a goal in crucial league games against Rangers and Hearts (on each occasion the ball crossed the line by inches and remained there for a small fraction of a second).
There is very little a ref can do when his assistant doesn’t flag when the ball crosses the goal line, as we all know, but Collum still suffered reputational damage from some who simply blamed him for being in charge when ‘goals’ against Celtic were not awarded by assistant referees.
It takes a brave decision for a ref to award an injury time penalty for a team losing by a goal in a cup final. As we noted yesterday, Anthony Stokes clearly had his ankle clipped when clean through with Cammy Bell to beat on Sunday while the Kilmarnock defender never came close to the ball. This was a foul any day of the week, but having been in charge when Celtic benefited from assistant referee decisions, Collum booked Stokes instead of awarding a penalty.
This incident was almost identical to Collum’s decision not to award Celtic a penalty in the infamous game away to Hamilton Accies in 2011. With five minutes of the game remaining Niall McGinn was tripped inside the box but Collum booked the player.
The offside rule was subject to a new and unique interpretation that day. Hamilton ‘scored’ from a set piece with a player alone inside the six yard box who jumped over the ball. He was in an offside position by several yards and stood in front of Fraser Forster before allowing the ball to pass under him. Collum also sent off James Forrest for blocking a clearance in an incident which caused a Hamilton player to kick his boot.
All of this followed the infamous incident at Celtic Park when despite looking the other way, Collum awarded Rangers a penalty when Kirk Broadfoot stumbled in the vicinity of Daniel Majstorovic.
Without enjoying the light of robust critical analysis of refereeing decisions that happens in most other countries I’m not sure where we go with any of this. Celtic Quick News called both ‘goal’ incidents against Rangers and Hearts as assistant referee mistakes so it is only appropriate we record Mr Collum’s significant mistakes when refereeing Celtic, while we ponder the formula for career progression among Scotland’s referees.
I know we covered the issue of Duff and Phelps needing to talk-up any possibility of nullifying Ticketus ownership of future season tickets, Craig Whyte’s security over Ibrox of HMRC being prepared to accept a few pennies in the pound (before HMRC issued a rare statement about the important of paying your tax, “football club or not”), so apologies for repeating myself, but….
Duff and Phelps have agreed no deal with HMRC. Ticketus retain ownership of future season tickets and the recent court challenge appears to offer little threat, while Craig Whyte retains his security. In addition, Duff and Phelps have received no offer for Rangers with terms which are within their control.
So, apart from having no offers they can accept, no stadium to sell, no control over future season ticket sales, no agreement with HMRC and having absolutely no idea what they will do when player contracts revert to their full value on 1 June, Duff and Phelps job is pretty easy.
Right now they need to keep all their plates in the air. The very least we should do is cut them some slack as they endeavour to work the angles.
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waste of time
Nothing new there
Total guff.
Mark Hately as well!!!!!!!!!
BYE BYE RANGERS!!!
Current owners ,say that you should ask the previous owners.
Brilliant.
The truth will out.
TT
channel 4…talk about paper roses !!!!!……still cant beat our own guys.
C4 Points the finger at SFA incompetence.
Nothing revealed we do not know.
Embarrassing for Regan but could have made him squirm a bit more.
Still peed off not playing Sammi but hey ho!
And what was the point in buying a Heidi the ba in the net striker as an option everyone knew we would require at some point this season
Love Lenny and he is still learning the ropes….but grrrr I had the treble @ 6’s
Anyway it would be rude not to congratulate Killie manager and players for playing us at a game of fit ba! In the end they just shaded our lads and fair play to them. Well done.
The thing that makes the whole poundland fiasco so damned enjoyable is how the whole pack of media colluded in the mess..
They couldnae help themselves
Stoopid Huns
We’ll see the real Celts lift the only trophy that matters this season …very soon
HH
M
Dear Mr SFA,
so how do you do Fit and Proper checks on owners,
em, we dont, we ask them to do a Self Declaration.
hahahahahahahahhaha
that was so funny.
Q1, Are you a good guy .
Aye.
Q2, Are you a bad guy.
Naw.
Q3, will you pay tax on time
Aye
PERFICK.
STUPID HUNS
A very muddled piece for me.
Rangers haven’t declared payments and sfa don’t do fit an proper checks.
No unifying theme.
No mention of Campbell Oglivie was a director at Rangers and possible conflict of interest.
Weak.
Gourockemeraldbhoy 19.40
This is something new.
They are being exposed on a national level.
The water is starting to leak through the paper towels.
TT
My my, Regan looked very uncomfortable there! He’ll be hoping another club is daft enough to admit guilt in response to their letter…
Nothing that we haven’t been discussing for the better part of a year now but still good to see it hit the mainstream; the SFA made to look like the bumbling incompetents (and corrupt) that we know they are on uk national television, not bad really!
anyone got any links to Melted Minties Moonbeam interview on sky yesterday.
C4 – Damp Squib
Alec Thomson will need to shift up through the gears on this if he wants to enhance his reputation with this. So far he’s been superficial, covering ground already well exposed.
HH
Regan says we cannot check every new director in Scottish football.
Cannot even check a high profile new owner of one of the biggest teams in the country at a time of financial meltdown.
Q. Who runs Scottish Football.
A. Rangers
Regan,deary dear,is this the man leading Scottish football,what a Buffon.
Lenny knows how hard it is for a very good Celtic team to win the treble and unfortunately the current team is some way off being very good.
Lennon, Sutton, Larsson, BBJ and their teammates at the time really should have won more than they did. Still surprised and disappointed at that even after the years that have passed.
RalphWaldoEllison-is Neil Lennon Season 2011-12 on 20 March, 2012 at 19:19 said:,
I agree, this has all the hallmarks of a ‘catch-all amnesty’, whereby the huns will be allowed to keep silverware they are not entitled to, if others admit they cheated also.
Árd Macha
The question is who is advising Stewart Regan??
Who gave him the idea to write to all the other clubs in Scotland??
Is this all Stewart’s own work??
Starry
Saint Stivs on 20 March, 2012 at 19:47
“anyone got any links to Melted Minties Moonbeam SQUIRM interview on sky yesterday”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H2h6gqk_Ybw&feature=player_embedded
so your the chief of Bauer Radio, owners of Radio Clyde.
Hello Delahunt its your MD here, I just watched a thing on Channel 4 there, saying the Huns are cheats , operating outside the rules,and the SFA might be complicit.
Your all over it aint you ? we allready had this covered didnt we ?
sorry, could have swore you said , em no boss there.
TinyTim
Thought it could have went a bit further, another letdown on a par with the radio 5 guff. Regan looked worried but got off lightly IMO…
Ktf
mince alors…
To be fair to the Ch4 report, i wasn’t expecting to learn something that CQN,Phil Mac, RTC, etc hadn’t already told us all.
So at least it was put out nationwide and will hopefully get more people interested in the corruption thats been favouring the huns for decades.
On another note if say hearts have had some unregistered players on their books.What happens to their games against the huns.
Would they be -3 each, if so is that a draw, so 1pt each.
blantyretim on 20 March, 2012 at 19:53 said:
allright Bud, did you read Phil McG item on attending the funeral in Coatbridge and meeting the original holy goalie (as per VM telling me that_) very good read.
TinyTim on 20 March, 2012 at 19:45
About the you tube video I sent it to the guy in question,he’s not got back to me yet he maybe giving it a body swerve… toxic
St Stivs..
did not mate..where can I see it?
Regan letter to all Scottish teams is one of self declaration.
Have you ever made payments you should not have done.
Please tick.
YES
NO
Please have this signed by the Club Secretary.
(You know like Campbell Ogilvie used to be at Rangers)
Jeez, ghuys, what did you expect from CH 4 tonight? Every aspect of this wickedness exposed in 5 mins???! It was CH 4 not Shortbreed.
THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING.
The C4 piece here http://youtu.be/cuJdifESaP8
I wonder if the gang of ten brought along Regan’s wee letters to their exclusive
Conflabs and discussed a collective mea culpa as a strategem to aid and abett
Hun Central FC’s mitigation for widespread cheating charges to be dropped in a
General amnesty.
Just asking like.
HH
The CH4 piece looks like the start of something more in AT really gets his teeth into it, Mr Regan hasn’t got the footballs to deal with it by the looks of it.
Who’s his puppetmaster is the question that comes to my mind.
Starry
C4 = White Elephant . Mark Daly wins it for me in the Msm.
The huns are doing it so therefore all of you must be doing it!! How has this now become the liability of all member clubs.
Very disappointed.
http://www.philmacgiollabhain.ie/a-family-gathering/#more-2306
BT HERE YOU GO
Not as good as it could have been but I’d say he’s more up his sleeve, it did say that they could be losing a lot of silverware.
V
Mick19.56
It would take a brave man.
TT
Watching Juventus v Milan,Seedorf would be an ideal signing for us just now.He’d bring our young players (basically our first team) on as well as adding experience,composure and class to our side.Wonderful professional and great player.Probably too rich for us but it’s nice to dream at times.
The game’s naw bad either.