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We don’t have a dog in the fight over refereeing standards at last night’s League Cup game at Ibrox.  Livingston and even the perennial Ibrox media holdouts were aghast at a decision which led to the opening goal and subsequent VAR approval.

However, we remain the only club who SFA Head of Refereeing, Crawford Allan, felt it appropriate to pick-on for a decision by one of his officials he felt was wrong.  Some context.  In December 2021 Kyogo scored the only goal of a league game against Hearts.  After a rocky start to the season, where the club had won only one from their opening seven games, Celtic collected 25 from 27 points up to that night.

They were on form and closing in on the top of the table, the whole country could sense it and an assistant referee did not raise his flag when Kyogo scored.  Allan could contain himself no more and took to Radio Scotland to express his suspicion that Celtic were advantaged.  He didn’t say it that way, of course, but by saying he thought the assistant was wrong, that was the implication.

His intervention was ill-judged.  Referees get a hard enough time without their own boss taking to the airwaves to undermine them.  This was true then and remains so now.  That the SFA Head of Refereeing didn’t see anything wrong with his actions gave us an insight into how his mind reacted to that Celtic Park moment.  Football takes hold of us all.

We need to hear again from Crawford.  He either should explain his view on decisions favouring other clubs, which would be even-handed but an horrendous mistake, or he need to explain how inappropriate it is that he only spoke about Celtic.

When trying to raise standards in an organisation, it is practically impossible to achieve progress if your own missteps are brushed under the carpet.  The SFA has been a hiding place for bowling club committee-types for decades.  Our game just doesn’t have the competence to attract those with the ability to succeed in a more responsible environment.

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  8. Cloud9 on

    HOT SMOKED on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2023 8:28 PM

     

    Cloud9: organised conspiracy against us?

     

     

    I am not sure about the words `organised` and `conspiracy` but I am sure `they ` are `against us`.

     

     

    For me, rather than `organised conspiracy`, it is more of a subliminal understanding of what is the `right thing ` to do in Scotland in terms of career prospects.

     

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    Not disagreeing one iota with you here.

     

     

    Subliminal is a good word for it – conditioned, if you like.

     

     

     

    “Sometimes when people are under stress, they hate to think, and it’s the time when they most need to think”. – Bill Clinton

     

     

    Humans often make decisions in stressful situations, for example when the stakes are high and the potential consequences severe, or when the clock is ticking and the task demand is overwhelming. In response, a whole train of biological responses to stress has evolved to allow a fight-or-flight response. When under stress, a fast and effortless process may dominate over considered deliberation in making crucial decisions under uncertainty.

     

     

    Studies have shown that when stressed, individuals tend to make more habitual responses than rational choices and are less likely to adjust their initial judgment – they rely more on gut feelings.

     

     

    So yes, subliminal – conditioned, if you like.

     

     

    Buried deep in the subconscious – Ibrox is not a place you want to f*** up if you value your career in Scottish Football refereeing….. and yet it is my ‘gut-feeling’ that overall the Blue-voice and influence has been somewhat diluted over the years – certainly during our dominance this century. Still old habits and traditions die hard.

  9. quadrophenian on

    P67 – re ‘We need to hear from Crawford Allen’.

     

     

    You have more chance of hearing from Flanagan and Allen.

     

     

    HH

  10. GFTB on

    Petec 12.24am

     

     

    Has retired to my kip last night due to working this morning, sorry to read that about Aidan, having suffered that (twice) I know the pain he will be in, plenty of soup and if he likes chocolate just melt it if wired up … cheers for the offer “if” a ticket was available but no chance I’d be allowed to go without my sidekick … it’s easier to shake off Columbo than MissGFTB, she is buzzing for the CL games so will be enduring them with her on the telly :-)

     

     

    TLT is far more reliable than me, him and BRRB would turn up for the opening of an envelope never mind a CL game under the lights at paradise, am sure Aidan isn’t a non-runner yet though, cheers again 🍀

  11. Melbourne Mick on

    Morning bhoys, still no ghirls on here now ? shame as they

     

    kept the place tidy.

     

    You all know what that Shippy mob are like 🤪

     

    Scorching day today, thought I’d measure out knew park sizes

     

    for next season, so can of spray paint and tape measure, and

     

    forgot slip, slap, slop, result heid like a tomato 😡

     

    RIP Michael Gambon like to think he was a Celtic fan.

     

    Must have been, he was a magician in Harry Potter.

     

    H H. Mick

  13. Melbourne Mick on

    Morning BRRB

     

     

    Was a bit lonely there, thought I was being ignored, you

     

    know just like beelin Beale.

     

    Well dats wot I fot 🤣

     

    H H. Mick

  16. johnbay on

    Thanks everyone for replies, he’s following up on them today.

     

     

    HRVATSKI JIM on 28TH SEPTEMBER 2023 9:50 PM

     

    JOHNBAY @ 5.32

     

     

     

     

     

     

    Lovely to see you making a post. I hope that your son gets sorted

     

     

     

     

     

     

    How us Carine doing in her operatic career.

     

    She’s doing great, Just back from the Far East.

     

    Has a concert in St Giles Cathedral on the 31st December then on the 2nd January

     

    she’s doing Handel’s Messiah in the Royal concert hall in Glasgow

  18. Melbourne Mick on

    BRRB

     

     

    Could catch a cab ok, but from what I’ve heard David66

     

    paying the fare is a no chance.

     

    I see Fav Uncle said there is a bus from Doncaster, for

     

    JOHNBAY, there’s a Doncaster here in Vic, ?

     

    If only 🙏

     

    H H. Mick

  19. Hrvatski Jim on

    JOHNBAY

     

     

    That’s great to hear that she has such a career. The 2nd January concert is at the same time as a Celtic game or I would have gone to it.

     

     

    You may remember that I had a young man, Khanyiso Gwenxane, from South Africa staying with us for a while when he was studying at the Glasgow Conservatoire. He has also gone on to great things including making his American debut in Philadelphia a year ago. The BBC made a radio programme about it. Just wonderful to see someone from a poor background getting so high in the classical world.

     

     

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct3jjl

  21. !!Bada Bing!! on

    Mitchel Frame has put pen to paper on a contract extension that will keep him at Parkhead until the summer of 2026.

     

     

    This Bhoy has a chance.

     

    …

  22. scullybhoy on

    !!Bada Bing!! on 29th September 2023 10:57 am

     

     

    Mitchel Frame has put pen to paper on a contract extension that will keep him at Parkhead until the summer of 2026.

     

     

    This Bhoy has a chance.

     

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    Brilliant news.

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