We are a small country with a small talent pool. You see evidence of this on the field at international tournaments (or more commonly, the qualification stage). Despite this, we expect elite performance from our officials, who are held to a higher standard than even Celtic are, when compared to Europe’s elite clubs.
The SPFL (previously SPL) have had a chief exec from outside Scotland since 2009, a period during which the Wisdom of Solomon was required. Yesterday, the SFA appointed their first VAR Manager – Jon Moss, a former top-flight referee in England.
Our implementation of VAR under the previous Head of Referees, Crawford Allan, was very poor. Allan was out of his depth, and forced the country to endure enforcement which was clearly nonsense, until the December 2022 World Cup gave him a chance to reset guidance.
Since then, guidance, enforcement and confidence have varied. We needed change. Rightly or wrongly, the VAR Manager is going to get the blame for a lot of things. Recruiting someone from outside our intense patch of land might be the wisest thing new Head of Refereeing, Willie Collum, ever does.
People will still moan about mistakes, they will still accuse referees and their overlords of bias, but the VAR Manager has clean hands. This is a very good thing.
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Mornin.
Nursery run , shops then later celebrate daughters birthday with the family ….life’s good 👍.
Marspapa
Happy Birthday to your lass,good seeing you both on Saturday,i melted seeing your Grandson aw excited,hope the wee yin still buzzin
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HH
Cheers Big yin ……Kelly took a chance buying the ticket on the Internet and your gift of a ticket to me couldn’t have worked out better …..we were on the same row on opposite ends 20 odd seats apart …..60.000 seats and pitch up on the same row wow!!
The wee mhan loved it , in with the kano brigade
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Good morning all from my estate aka Queens Park. A leisurely perambulation of the ancestral acres followed by an inspection of the local taverns. An onerous duty but one must keep up certain standards.
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Who does Paddy Power’s social media? They go where no one else is prepared to go to, must be a Tim on a wind up? But they allow it to go nonetheless!
Is that a spoof or really PP , if the latter then hats off to their bravery 👏👏👏👍
Cue the death threats for Paddy Power
Stoke City have scheduled a medical this afternoon for Bosun Lawal.
It’s expected that he’ll complete the switch over the weekend in a £2M move which could eventually reach around £3M w/ add ons.
Stoke City Contract Length For Celtic Star Identified As Deal Agreed
09/08/2024 – 11:15 BST
Jake Davies
They do have previous:
“Rangers supporters branded him Public Enemy No 1 and his stadium and staff were threatened… but Raith Rovers chairman Hutton says: I’d do it all again”
Stoke will pay a fee which is an initial £2m but could rise to closer to £3m over time due to add-ons.
Lawal has agreed to sign a contract with Stoke which will run until the summer of 2027.
Not surprised at Lawal’s departure. He was given several chances but struggled to make the grade.
Good luck to him for the future.
Paddy Power have been ripping it out of them for years. I do definitely think a Celtic fan is behind the content as they seem to know what buttons to push and I’d highly recommend looking for previous content as it’s brilliant.
Callum McGregor retires from Scotland
new article posted.
Bada
I’m delighted by that, he has more than done his bit, hopefully as a fit guy it prolongs his playing time with Celtic.
So it appears Lawal is away (Bosun not Pedro) and about 2m into the piggy-bank. If I may re-post someone else’s clever work from a week or two ago …….
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faithful through and through;
Over and over we’ll get mugged by you 🎶