My reading of it is that there has been an allegation that the SPFL breached SFA protocols somewhere in the cinch deal and that is what is being investigated. If true, the SPFL have appointed the SFA as arbiter in the dispute with Rangers and the SFA will be investigating the SPFL for breaching SFA rules. Where else but in Scottish football
It’s truly effin mental.My reading of it is that there has been an allegation that the SPFL breached SFA protocols somewhere in the cinch deal and that is what is being investigated. If true, the SPFL have appointed the SFA as arbiter in the dispute with Rangers and the SFA will be investigating the SPFL for breaching SFA rules. Where else but in Scottish football
Maybe a transformer
To be fair to the compliance officer, how many citings have there been since he took over? Calum Butcher of Dundee Utd was cited a couple of weeks ago for a challenge on Turnbull. Whilst I am sure there will have been a few others that I can't remember, that is the only one I can actually remember in the last year or so. He seems to have taken a far less interventionist approach. Which is absolutely fine so far as I am concerned. We were all absolutely sick of what felt like Rangers players being cited on a regular basis whilst virtually nobody else was. Unless it is really egregious, I don't really want any compliance officer getting involved on a regular basis. Just as Furuhashi could have been cited, so could the St Johnstone player who tried to buy a penalty by diving against us last Wednesday and so on. If you go down that route you need to stay down that route and cite everyone who dives etc. If that is what we want, fair enough (and I am not in any way defending Furuhashi by the way - I absolutely agree that he has dived, several times). But for me I prefer the less interventionist approach.
Only because Sportscene and the papers haven't highlighted it.
MacLennan is linked to somebody there iirc. I think he used to be one of their high heedyins boss or something.
The protocol only allows the citing for diving if the referee has been deceived and given a foul - none of his instances have, as far as I'm aware, been of that nature. Even the Livi (?) one where the player was sent off, there was sufficent for an offence, even if he went down like a dying duck in a thunderstorm. To get cited, he needs to have dived and the referee be conned by it.
