referees on strike. all scotlandshire league fixtures cancelled next week

[henrik777]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/rangers/3534955/Rangers-manager-Walter-Smith-explains-rant-about-assistant-referee-Football.html

http://soccernews.bigsoccer.com/article/0bF4cWg7jZ0B2

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-1321011/Rangers-boss-Walter-Smith-blasts-flawed-SFA-Allan-McGregor-ruled-out.html

http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Football:+REF+HAD+IT+IN+FOR+US;+Raging+Walter+blasts+bungling...-a0152665152

Walter Smith “But the second sending off is incredible. It meant we lost a player for the majority of the game for a circumstance that was not the case."

Walter Smith "“It's an incredible decision for a linesman who is in line with the play. We got a bad one at Tannadice earlier this season, which has been forgotten about, maybe because we don't make that much of a fuss about it - same situation here”

 Walter Smith "Mr MURPHY was quick to allow a Scott McDonald goal at Celtic Park last season. And he was quick to disallow that one tonight."

 Walter Smith "But we bring out the best in the Aberdeen support and sometimes the referees get carried away with that aspect, or should I say the linesman. It's not very often you see a linesman running 70 yards TO GET A PLAYER SENT OFF. They won't run for a ball and that is the one circumstance whichis a little disappointing. What is unusual is the linesman running 60-70 yards. IF HE WANTS TO BE A REFEREE, HE SHOULD BE AND NOT A LINESMAN."

Walter Smith "I don't think it was a sending off, BUT IT WAS AN OPPORTUNITY FOR THE REFEREE TO SEND HIM OFF"

Walter Smith "McGregor’s was an innocuous foul. In fact it wasn’t even a foul, but that is how they see it and we can’t do anything about it. Last season, they (the SFA) quickly organised a disciplinary hearing for Kenny Miller’s appeal, SO THAT HE WOULD MISS THE CELTIC GAME"

Sandy

[GreekStein]

I absolutely cannot stand celtic.

Just utterly horrible.

The next time I see him in Luton I'm not even gonna acknowledge him.

[celtic]

I absolutely cannot stand celtic.

Just utterly horrible.

The next time I see him in Luton I'm not even gonna acknowledge him.

[TightEnd]

Forgive my ignorance, genuinely, but why would Chick being a St Mirren fan be so bad and render his views completely pointless?

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

[Teacake]

Celtic are a joke and a complete laughing stock with fans of all Scottish clubs with this paranoia shit they've been bleating on about for years. We are bored beyond belief with this rubbish. The club have helped make their fans believe there's some sort of a conspiracy, in fact they have played up to some of the most undesirable of their fans when they should be actively discouraging such nonsense. Some of what Rod has posted is a fine example of this paranoid drivel that some Celtic fans actually believe.

This team complain like f**k about correct decisions ffs!! Lennon was doing his nut about two decisions against Hearts recently too, another game Celtic lost, one was a red card for a two footed lunge by Joe Ledley that Lennon described as not even a foul, the next a penalty claim for Celtic where nothing was given, in fairness the ref did get that one wrong, it should have been an indirect free kick to Hearts for a dangerously high boot of that puppet Hooper. They continually act like the poker player who bleats on about bad beats but forgets about all the races they win or in Celtic's case the favourable decisions they get, and believe me they get loads.

I have less than no respect for Lennon, Dr Reid, Peter"Sporting Integrity"Lawell, and anyone else bleating on about conspiracy theories. Wake up, grow up, stop cheating (this is cheating, they don't want parity they seek an advantage), stop pouring fuel on the fires of hatred burning too brightly already where the OF are concerned especially with some of the cretins following both clubs. Celtic should be punished for all of this but they won't be, the shame they are bringing to their once great club may be punishment enough though.

I am sure there will be a lot of Celtic fans who will disagree with all I have said but it's pointless for me to try to reason with them or post any further on the matter, I mean why let the truth get in the way of a good conspiracy theory. I know a lot of Celtic fans who feel very uncomfortable with their clubs behaviour and how it is viewed by those outside of it.

Deflect and deny, remember Farrygate, that was Celtic paranoia as well.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sport/football/292088.stm

He never did take legal action.

We don't want respect from permaragers, we want transparency.

[Teacake]

Lol you all need, to get a grip.  Dallas "disappeared" because he reached the age that officials are forced to retire, which is a shame as he was 1 of our best officials.  You may have noticed some other refs have "disappeared", like Collina.  Maybe he shafted Celtic sometime too and took the easy way out?

I can't think of another way to say this but are you really that thick?

I'm talking about Dallas being the head of Referee Development and vanishing when all this is kicking off after he initially waded into the Dougies lies fiasco by trying to cover it up.

I find that strange, just saying like 

[Alverton]

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

Good luck finding this.

[TightEnd]

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

Good luck finding this.

Kind of why I asked, and I sense part of the problem

Not exactly a Patrick Barclay, Henry Winter or Matt Dickinson setting a respected agenda in the media on it up there is there? Unless someone tells me I am wrong


Roddy Forsyth is a big Rangers man isn't he, for example?

[Teacake]

Forgive my ignorance, genuinely, but why would Chick being a St Mirren fan be so bad and render his views completely pointless?

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

Because he doesn't actually support St Mirren, its quite common amongst journalists up here, Bill Leckie is another "St Mirren" fan who was outed live on the radio by Simon Mayo of all people .

Dougie Donnelly is a "Clyde" fan, Andy McInnes an "Airdrie" fan. I've no idea why they do this.

[Teacake]

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

Good luck finding this.

Kind of why I asked, and I sense part of the problem

Not exactly a Patrick Barclay, Henry Winter or Matt Dickinson setting a respected agenda in the media on it up there is there? Unless someone tells me I am wrong


Roddy Forsyth is a big Rangers man isn't he, for example?

I don't mind RF, he is a Rangers man but he's pretty objective usually as is Graham Speirs another Rangers man.
Glenn Gibbons who used to write for The Scotsman was good, he is a Celtic fan, after that I'm really struggling the standard is appalling.

Hugh McIlvanney is obviously  different class but is English based and writes mostly about boxing, I've no idea who he supports.

[gatso]

the funny thing is, when I started this thread I didn't even consider the fact that it would go all celtic this, rangers that, blah, blah, blah. I guess we've been spoilt for a while with avoiding it

cba to read most of the posts but I'm sure you're both really hard done by

[Alverton]

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

Good luck finding this.

Kind of why I asked, and I sense part of the problem

Not exactly a Patrick Barclay, Henry Winter or Matt Dickinson setting a respected agenda in the media on it up there is there? Unless someone tells me I am wrong


Roddy Forsyth is a big Rangers man isn't he, for example?

Moved up to Scotland a few years ago, I had zero interest in SPL until I moved there.  Most ridic thing ever is nobody is impartial, theres no balance view, imo

Reminds me to much of this.

[Maxriddles]

Forgive my ignorance, genuinely, but why would Chick being a St Mirren fan be so bad and render his views completely pointless?

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

To be fair I even laughed at Chick Young being described as impartial.

[Maxriddles]

Not exactly the same issue but not completely unlinked.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/scot_prem/9225458.stm

[TightEnd]

Forgive my ignorance, genuinely, but why would Chick being a St Mirren fan be so bad and render his views completely pointless?

Is there a single commentator/journalist on Scottish football who is neutral and respected on all sides and thus worth reading for a balanced view on this? If so, who? Links if you like.

To be fair I even laughed at Chick Young being described as impartial.

sorry about that, had no idea. Darn Sarf, BBC journos affiliations are often unknown. Had a reasonable acquaintance with the BBC's Barry Davies for several years, and he would never tell me who he supported, for example