Organisations tend to back their own

People who belong to organisations are predisposed to protect that organisation whenever it or its reputation is threatened.  It is human nature.  The reputation of the SFA refereeing community is in question today.

One of their senior members, John Beaton, acting with full consideration, advised referee Don Robertson that Yang’s yellow card should be upgraded.  This is the reason Celtic are not top of the table with nine games to go.

Celtic’s appeal against the decision to award a red card will be heard today.  There will be no conspiracy to reject Celtic’s claim, but, irrespective of the merits of any claim (in any environment), there is an inertia to go against one of your own.  I will be pleasantly surprised if they do not back their own man.

We are going to need to win this the hard way.