Referees' Strike - for those interested!

[shaunbhoy]

It's nice they let you join in.

Talking of dreary losers.

[d000hg]

Talking of dreary losers.

Fits right in this thread, doesn't it.

[shaunbhoy]

Fits right in this thread, doesn't it.

Whenever you show up, yes.

[Incognito]

Fits right in this thread, doesn't it.

I feel persecuted with you entering my thread with your god bothering ways. Leave us heathens to fight it out by ourselves.

[d000hg]

I feel persecuted with you entering my thread with your god bothering ways. Leave us heathens to fight it out by ourselves.

Considering this thread is nominally about religion, and I haven't mentioned god-bothering in it, that's a rather lacklustre insult.

[d000hg]

Whenever you show up, yes.

I'm a breath of fresh air compared to you lot talking about 2nd-rate footballers most people have never heard of.

ps: to help you out shauny, you could formulate a retort using "hot air"

[Doggy Styles]

I'm a breath of fresh air compared to you lot talking about 2nd-rate footballers most people have never heard of.[/SIZE]

I've heard of current Scotland striker Craig Mackail-Smith. I watched him play in League One last week.

Not for Rangers or Celtic though. And he didn't score either.

[shaunbhoy]

I'm a breath of stale air

FTFY

[Incognito]

Considering this thread is nominally about religion, and I haven't mentioned god-bothering in it, that's a rather lacklustre insult.

Ah, but we only use religion as the crutch to beat the other side with, you really don't think for a minute any of us actually believe in that great big comfort blanky in the sky do you?

Next you'll be telling us dinosaurs were't real and the earths only 3 thousand years old give or take a few hundred.

[shaunbhoy]

“Only a matter of months after our referees withdrew their labour, we had to witness the match official, Calum Murray, being manhandled, while another player who had been dismissed brazenly walked to his own supporters in defiance.”
Stewart Regan, SFA chief executive, 3 March 2011.

Serious stuff one might think, as after this series of incidents we had an Emergency Government Summit to address the ensuing trouble.

An urgent summit of leading politicians, sporting officials and police will be held after a violent confrontation between rival managers at a Celtic versus Rangers cup match, where three players were sent off and 34 fans were arrested in the ground.
Alex Salmond, the first minister of Scotland, said he would convene a summit next week into the "shameful" incidents at Parkhead in Glasgow, which were condemned as "disgraceful and inflammatory" by Stewart Regan, chief executive of the Scottish Football Association.
The bitterly fought Scottish Cup replay, won 1-0 by Celtic, ended in extraordinary scenes after Ally McCoist, Rangers' assistant manager, and Celtic manager Neil Lennon clashed outside the tunnel.Their confrontation was sparked off by a dispute between the two men over the conduct of Rangers striker El-Hadji Diouf, who became the third Rangers player sent off during the ill-tempered tie.
There were several touchline incidents and a total of 13 yellow cards, chiefly involving Rangers players. The clashes followed warnings from Strathclyde police and the Scottish Police Federation (SPF), which represents rank and file officers, about the upsurge in sectarian violence, drink-related offences and domestic abuse which frequently follows Old Firm games.

Surely the SFA must make an example of the rival managers after their confrontation? They certainly seemed very keen on taking action against Lennon.

The SFA and Neil Lennon are on a collision course – and the Scottish Cup semi-final on April 17 is the date something has to give.

That’s the day the Celtic manager intends to return to the dugout as he believes he will have completed the second of the two four-game bans handed to him following the altercation with Ally McCoist during the Old Firm cup-tie on March 2.

Well today was the day when the Rangers Players and Officials involved in the disgraceful incidents finally got to face the music. What would be the outcome for manhandling the referee on multiple occasions, and refusing to leave the pitch at the end of the match after being shown a Red card? Especially when one considers that Mr Diouf was quoted as saying the following about the Referee involved......................

In an interview with French broadcaster Canal+, the Senegal international said: "The Celtic match where I got a red card was incredible. At first I went to see the ref as I was being kicked all over the park. The ref said to me 'You don't have the right to speak to me', which annoyed me. The Celtic manager [Neil Lennon] insulted me, I answered back and I got a yellow card whereas he got nothing at all.
"You have to say the ref messed up the game with cards flying everywhere. I know it must be tough for him but still, I guess some refs find it hard to handle these type of games.
"At the end I told the ref he was the worst ref I've ever had so he gave me another card. I said 'you can give me as many cards as you like, the match is over now'. I know it's not good to get cards but I'm only suspended for the cup, not the league."

Well thankfully we now know the truth. And here it is....................

SPL - McCoist wins appeal, escapes banTue, 12 Apr 14:13:00 2011

McCoist appealed against the punishment, allowing him to operate from the technical area in last month`s Co-operative Insurance Cup final victory.

The ban has now been overturned by the SFA following a meeting of their disciplinary committee at Hampden today.

El-Hadji Diouf and Madjid Bougherra have also escaped without further bans for their part in last month's Old Firm derby but have been fined and warned over their future conduct by the SFA.

The Rangers duo faced the SFA's disciplinary committee on Tuesday to answer a case of "misconduct of a significantly serious nature" as a result of their actions during the Scottish Cup replay on March 2.

Diouf was fined £5,000 by the governing body, while Bougherra was fined £2,500. Both players were red-carded in the match.

So in short, the book thrown at Lennon, and anyone connected to Rangers told "Naughty Boy, don't do it again".
So, double standards still alive and well within the SFA. Plus ca change!!