SFA ban pair for one game

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CELTIC striker Morten Rasmussen and Kilmarnock defender Tim Clancy could be forced to appear before the SFA Review Panel.

 

Record Sport understands both players will have to answer the case for two separate incidents that occurred during Saturday's Active Nation Scottish Cup quarter-final which Celtic won 3-0 courtesy of a Robbie Keane hat-trick.

 

In a bad-tempered first half Clancy appeared to stamp on Hoops hitman Rasmussen with the Dane later elbowing Kilmarnock defender Frazer Wright off the ball, amazingly escaping punishment.

 

Wright needed to have stitches inserted into his wound. Ref Iain Brines and his assistants missed both flashpoints which were clearly caught on camera.

 

However the duo's luck seems to have run out as they look certain to be dragged before the beaks at Hampden.

 

The SFA Refereeing Development department will almost certainly flag up both offences to Brines which will spell bother for Rasmussen and Clancy.

 

Brines will then be asked to give his verdict as to what decisions he would have reached had he seen the incidents and it looks likely that Rasmussen and Clancy will have their cases sent to the SFA Review Panel.

 

If Brines deems that both men are guilty of a sending-off offence they could each be hit with a retrospective red card.

 

Killie defender Wright insists the SFA should throw the book at Rasmussen.

 

The clash came in the first half of the Rugby Park encounter and the two players then spent five minutes arguing.

 

Wright did not believe the Dane's explanation that he was just trying to get some space for himself inside Killie's penalty box and the centre-half would like to see justice being done.

 

Obvious When asked about the incident, the Killie star said: "He swung an elbow at me.

 

"I asked Sky's David Tanner about it when we came off at half-time after someone else said the telly showed it was quite obvious he had done it.

 

"I wasn't happy about it but he just said he was trying to get free from me.

 

"He said, 'You shouldn't be close to me', so I said, 'Sure, I'll let you stand and score.' He definitely caught me.

 

"If he meant to do it, it's not very nice. Hopefully it's something which will be looked at.

 

"I think if it was one of us who had done the same thing it would be picked up on.

 

"Someone has to have a look at it. If TV pictures prove he's done it then I'm all for him being done, he did catch me."

 

The result hurt Wright in more ways than one and he said: "I got caught in the head trying to clear the ball and went off for stitches. When we got to the medical room the door was locked. Eventually someone found the key and I got stitched."

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Striker Morten Rasmussen and defender Tim Clancy have both been handed one-match bans by the SFA.

 

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