Scottish football referees warn SFA they are ‘on the brink of strike’

[StuGers 477]

1 hour ago, the gunslinger said:

The moron that threw the coin in our game has a lot to answer for. 

 

The sad thing here is the ref made no mistakes against celtc. Rangers yes celtc no. 

 

If this is the kind of attack they get for having a good game where celtc are concerned no wonder they are worried. 

 

Rangers concern me here though. We should have made a video up of the two brown red card offenses. The penalty the 3 dives from brown and tge others from natcham and christy and played it on a loop at our press conference. 

We need to go on the offensive and create a video every match.

I regularly think referees are against us and have been the most biased against us for seasons.

[cooponthewing 1,139]

1 hour ago, StuGers said:

We need to go on the offensive and create a video every match.

I regularly think referees are against us and have been the most biased against us for seasons.

It maybe an unconscious bias but there certainly is. There are a few good PR people at St Pats controlling the narrative perception pilling on the pressure. It has now reached a new level as they have no money to spend and we are in their heels.

Edited January 8, 2019 by cooponthewing

[ian1964 10,761]

Referee rage as John Beaton and Willie Collum believe SFA have thrown them under a bus

The relationship between Scotland’s top whistlers and the compliance officer is strained – but there will be NO strike.

A special Record Sport investigation has established, despite claims they are on the brink of a second strike in eight years, there is in fact little or no appetite among the officials to call for industrial action and wreak havoc on one of the most competitive top-flight campaigns in years.

But we have learned of serious unhappiness behind the scenes over the actions of recently appointed compliance officer Clare Whyte and in particular with her treatment of two of the most high-profile whistlers in the game - Willie Collum and John Beaton.

Collum came under furious fire earlier this season after sending off Rangers winger Daniel Candeias in the closing seconds of a dramatic late win at St Mirren. The Ibrox outfit then turned their guns on Collum by releasing a withering statement in which they referred to unexplained "underlying issues" which need to be addressed.

And Beaton and his family are currently under round-the-clock police protection after the fallout from last month’s Old Firm derby.

After going down to a 1-0 defeat, Celtic released a statement of their own demanding the ref explain why Rangers striker Alfredo Morelos stayed on the pitch despite being involved in a string of controversial flashpoints.

But Record Sport understands Collum and Beaton - along with a number of sympathetic colleagues - now believe both men have been made scapegoats by their Hampden bosses with Whyte’s handling of their cases now coming under the microscope.

And a number of major concerns have been raised regarding what appear to be blatant anomalies and discrepancies in the way both incidents were dealt with.

We have been told that, in the aftermath of Collum’s controversial decision in Paisley, the whistler admitted to Whyte he may have called it wrong when he issued Candeias with a second yellow card after an off the ball clash with St Mirren defender Anton Ferdinand.

But, according to our sources, Collum was then shocked when the SFA subsequently claimed the ref had spotted Candeias making gestures to Ferdinand moments before the defender grabbed him in a head lock.

And Beaton is believed to have been equally bemused and let down by the fallout from the December 29 clash at Ibrox - and the SFA’s decision to announce that Morelos only escaped punishment because the referee had seen all three incidents when they occurred.

We understand Beaton did confirm he had a good view of the skirmishes between Morelos, Scott Brown, Anthony Ralston and Ryan Christie during the game.

But that Beaton was then denied the opportunity to retrospectively review those incidents despite having the chance to study them more closely on video replays.

One source said: “It’s fair to say Willie and John feel they have been badly let down by the compliance officer.

“Willie has had his impartiality called into question when, in fact, he was the first one to hold his hand up afterwards and admit he hadn’t seen the Candeias incident properly at the time of making his decision.

“He knew nothing about the statement which was later released in which the player’s gestures were used to vindicate that yellow card.

“As for John, he and his family are now paying a horrendous price for the whole Morelos mess. When he confirmed he had seen the incidents during the match he also fully expected to be asked if he had any reason to change his mind having watched them all back on TV.

“Having said that, the SFA’s disciplinary department had already made it almost impossible for referees to deal with these incidents.

“Remember, it was them who rescinded the red card Morelos was given at Pittodrie for kicking an opponent on the first day of the season at Pittodrie and then failed to punish Steven Naismith for stamping on Celtic’s Jonny Hayes a week later at Tynecastle.

“Whether John would have changed his mind only he knows for sure. But it does look very much like he was denied that chance and, a result of that, the SFA were able to pin the blame back on him.

“Referees have to put up with a lot of abuse in this country and they realise that’s part and parcel of the job.

“Most of the guys would acknowledge also that far too many mistakes have been made over the course of the season so far, but what they do not expect is for their own employers to throw them under a bus whenever the heat is on.

“As a result, relations between the officials and the compliance officer are extremely strained at this moment.”

But reports elsewhere claiming the whistlers are on the verge of a walk-out have been roundly dismissed.

Another unnamed source said: “Going on strike is the last thing the guys are thinking about.

“There are always one or two loose cannons with more militant views but the general feeling across the board is there would be no appetite for such drastic action and no benefit.

“The refs expected things to become a lot more pressurised the moment the top flight became competitive again. We’ve got a genuine competition this season so the stakes have been raised accordingly.

“But can you imagine the levels of hostility towards them if they took action and interrupted the campaign at this stage when everything is still to play for?”

Our sources, though, have also revealed the officials feel let down by what’s been described a leadership vacuum on Hampden’s sixth floor.

Another source said: “With all the issues and high-profile incidents this season, they need a bit of guidance and coaching but it’s not been forthcoming.

“The last two video clips they received concerned the keeper moving off his line at Scott Sinclair’s penalty in the League Cup Final and another telling refs that, when a corner is being taken on the opposite side from the linesman, they must check first to make sure the ball is inside the arch.

“You’d have thought the SFA would have had more to worry about than that given the way the season has been going so far!”

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/referee-rage-john-beaton-willie-13829666

[buster. 5,257]

Are the SFA in competition with the Tory Government/Brexit in how to fcuk-up, sow confusion and make as little logical sense as possible ?

 

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I see Morelos and the recinded red card from Sheepsville still manages to make the article, why ?

The compliance process correctly applied the current interpretaion of the rules and arrived at the correct decision.

 

If the media and most pundits want to analyse that incident using something other than the current interpretation of the rules then that is their problem but is what has to be called out. Darryl Broadfoot tried to point this out (Sportsound) but few wanted to listen and it gets forgotten as a narrative is pushed.

 

 

 

 

[buster. 5,257]

24 minutes ago, ian1964 said:

 

A special Record Sport investigation has established, despite claims they are on the brink of a second strike in eight years, there is in fact little or no appetite among the officials to call for industrial action and wreak havoc on one of the most competitive top-flight campaigns in years. 

In other words.........

 

A special Record Sport investigation has established that the previous story from the Special Record Sport Investigation team was a pile of Chick Young.

 

You have to laugh at the use of "Special" 

[der Berliner 3,808]

15 minutes ago, buster. said:

In other words.........

 

A special Record Sport investigation has established that the previous story from the Special Record Sport Investigation team was a pile of Chick Young.

 

You have to laugh at the use of "Special" 

They do take double-liberties, don't they. One with the use of the vocabulary (which is generally  poor anyway), as well with the intelligence of the readers. Then again, the targetted rheadership is not know for much brains anyways ...

 

EDIT: Only a few days have passed, but we await the fine for Scum FC re the statement on Beaton.

Edited January 9, 2019 by der Berliner