Referee supremo John Fleming has admitted that his whistlers make mistakes!
Last weekend provided a catalogue of howlers as matches up and down the country were ruined by honest mistakes as the referees returned from a five star training break in La Manga.
Bobby Madden produced a string of baffling decisions during Celtic’s 3-0 win over Motherwell but that performance was surpassed by Brian Colvin’s shocking performance in St Johnstone’s 3-3 draw with Hearts.
Steven Anderson has already had his red card reduced to a yellow but despite his horror show at Perth Colvin will take charge of Celtic’s midweek clash with Kilmarnock.
Discussing the referee’s display at St Johnstone Fleming told the Daily Record: “Every Saturday night I receive a phone call if something controversial involving a match official has taken place.
“Last Saturday I had the SPFL observer, the referee and one of his assistants making separate calls after Hearts had played at St Johnstone.
“Any game that’s regarded as being out of the ordinary contains one or two important decisions for discussion. That match had seven, of which four were correct, two were wrong and one was inconclusive.
“Eddie Smith, the match observer, said it was the toughest one he’d had to handle since he started.”
Fleming added: “In my time there have been six or seven referees who’ve been taken off the top league list because of performance-related issues.
“The Referee Committee met last Sunday to assess the season so far and we’ll reconvene next May. In the meantime every referee’s marks are monitored on a weekly basis.
“If one of them has two bad games on a back-to-back basis that’s enough for me to investigate the reasons why.”
Dougie McDonald has been employed by the SFA as a referee development officer.
Two back to back bad performances? I’m assuming willie collum Has been investigated more times than rangers fc(deceased) by the HMRC…
Sick of saying it…
A wee cosy club…wi’ jobs for the boys…written all over it…
If one my staff comes to me with…4 things right …two wrong and one iffy…..they don’t get to go to La Manga..that’s a certainty.
Feckin’ joke set-up…always was…always will be….
Why has McDonald not been taken to task
as the development guru ?
They will all go to their Burn’s Suppers,in
their Lodges tonight,with their masonic
brothers telling them how good they are.
they the referee top brass will reconvene in may 4 months down the line.. a complete joke.. ah forgot this gives them time to have lodge meeting..
Just seen ‘they’ got a peno late in the game today which good old elbows converted to win the match. Surely nothing suspicious? Or am I being paranoid….. again!!
The sad part of this is they want us to buy into this “open-hearted” admission.
It is treating us like idiots. The fact is they are NOT mistakes. They are planned buased and bigotted calls, pre-planned and rehearsed.
How embarrassing is it that they bring back a guy who “left” his ref post due to exposure of bias and blatant dishonesty? In other words, corruption.
Bigotted “head ref” dallas was fired not for doing what he did, but for being caught. Collum, another example, blatantly anti-Celtic, gets away with these “honest” mistakes every time. The one official who opened up and told how dallas was bullying the “outsiders” from the “establishment” when the dougie mcdonald fiasco reared its head was rewarded with, yes, the sack! Make no mistake, their actions are pre-planned and rehearsed, not mistakes.
Anybody listening to Bbc phone in just now, what a joke. Mr speirs trying to defend his fat friend of 20 odd years. He kept asking the caller any other manager who would take a pay cut , but how many have performed like
Fat boy to sell sts what a c,,nt. shit on his so called fans.Get the sou, westers on. H. H.
Sorry Joe, why would a referee have a pre-planned agenda against St. Johnstone or Hearts ?
He simply made a mistake in sending off Anderson, not a clear goal scoring opportunity, a couple of penalty decisions are debatable but we see them often enough, difficult for any official.
As I have said many a time, Managers, players, referee’s make many mistakes during all games are they all deliberately sabotaging themselves or are they only deliberate in Celtic games. I’ve crucial decisions go for & against us in domestic games and in Europe (Non pen v Juventus with clear dive from Amoruso, Harton goal v Barcelona yards offside…mistakes happen the world over.