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Willie Collum Celtic newsOf the million and one topics that Celtic supporters discuss there is possibly only one that they have unanimous views on- that Willie Collum is an awful referee.

Two minutes into his first SPL game of the season, at precisely 12.47 on Sunday, the out of touch whistler decided to disallow a perfectly good goal by Anthony Stokes in Celtic’s visit to St Mirren.

The Celtic striker whipped the ball away from lumbering St Mirren defender Mark McAusland, sidestepped goalkeeper Craig Samson and tucked the ball into the net for what most people thought was a great opportunist goal. Not so oor Wullie.

Revelling in his return to the spotlight he blew for an imaginary infringement that no amount of angles and slo-mo’s from Sky Sports could find fault with.

Fritzagrandold tweeted diplomatically: ‘Collum really is a terrible referee. Can’t believe they were promoting him as the division’s best last season.

While FiKennedyCSC got a bit more emotive with:Beyond belief. ‘Willie Collum’s eyes in the back of his head must be better than the one’s in the front. #HonestMistakes.’

8teen88 added: ‘Willie Collum should get fined for that! Nothing wrong with that at all!’

Across the water in Dublin ahmebertiee tweeted: ‘Stokes ‘disallowed goal’ just gets more ridiculous everytime they replay it. #Celtic.’

Taking a cold headed look at the incident 24 hours later DubCentral asked: ‘Has the SFA Video Appeals panel been set up to give Willie Collum a retrospective Red Card for his performance at St Mirren Park yesterday.’

Collum’s errors weren’t just one way with Daniel Majstorovic very fortunate not to be yellow carded for two crunching fouls on Nigel Hasselbaink.

The error prone referee had missed the start of the SPL season to take his unique interpretation of the laws of the game to Columbia where he was one of the support acts at the u-20 World Cup.

Out of 52 matches Collum was given just two games to referee with only José Buitrago of the host nation given less matches than eagle-eyes.

Hopefully away from the fawning praise of his SFA colleagues Collum’s look-at-me approach to the game, modelled on his hero Hugh Dallas, was closely monitored and rejected.

The 31-year-old school teacher shows no grasp for the game in any match that he is involved in, attempting to impose his own characterless ‘style’ rather than let the game flow and is often caught out of position getting hit with the ball or obstructing passes.

Youth seemed to be the sole reason for Collum being fast tracked through the system by the SFA but with that factor less relevant with each passing season hopefully his lack of ability will see him drift back down the ranks and allow other younger referees to get their chance at the bigger fixtures based on merit.

It’s often claimed that Celtic supporters only highlight honest mistakes from officials when their team drop points such as during Collum’s abysmal display in the 1-1 draw at Hamilton in January.

Sunday’s performance by Collum only cost Celtic in terms of goal difference but on another day it could cost Neil Lennon’s side vital points just like Mark Wilson’s disallowed ‘goal’ at Hibs on the opening day of the season .

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  • DJpodgypodge says:

    Nice picture of Willy Nilly – waxy composure, slimy,zipped up the back with a (and you can actually see it if you look close enough) bolt through his neck.

    Picture taken after he had just slithered out on a cold rainy night just in time to conjure up some misery for the innocents in the crowd. After the way our teams are performing in Europe, many SPL teams on the verge of receivership, declining crowds and generally Krap fitba.

    This insipid freak dons his robes and connives to further destroy the game.

    Incompetent tis true but biasedly so.

    Total beast.

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