According to a report in The Times today Strathclyde Police have stepped into the SFA enquiry that Hugh Dallas sent out an offensive email linking the pope to child abuse.
A week after the SFA announced their own investigation it seems that the police have decided to get involved.
According to The Times the Roman Catholic Church last night called on the SFA to make a public statement on the issue.
Responding to the police involvement in the case, a spokesman for the Church said: “Incitement to religious hatred is very serious and if an official of a national football association has been involved in this type of intolerant behaviour, firm and decisive action must be taken by the SFA in order to preserve its credibility.”
“The Catholic Church would urge the SFA to make public the messages concerned as soon as possible.”
Yesterday a Hearts fan was banned from football grounds for a year and fined £700 for singing a sectarian song at an Aberdeen-Hearts match last month.
Discussing the Dallas allegations leading criminal QC, Paul McBride, said: “On the face of it there is an e-mail which appears to have passed between a number of people which is plainly offensive and has a religious or sectarian theme. This has in the past been shown to constitute a criminal offence.
He added: “A football fan who was shouting sectarian chants from the terraces has today been banned from all football grounds for a year by the courts.
“I don’t wish to prejudice these issues but it would be extraordinary if such action was taken against a fan and there wasn’t a serious investigation into someone who is meant to be impartial and is the head of referees development at the SFA.”
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The empire is crumbling.
Bit by bit they are being exposed for what they are, and as this is happening the SFA and all that have been party to discrimination will be more and more fearful of a rap on the door.
We, tims, always knew it, now the world will know it as well.
institutionalised, systemic anti catholic, anti celtic practices in Scotland.
paranoia anyone ? no, just facts!
Its being exposed for what it is. Dallas, Dougal, McDonald the list goes on. Its an old boys, nudge nudge club that are wasp in nature(white anglo saxon protestant).
I will never ever forget McDonalds face overturning the penalty award…this is exactly what he was thinking “what will the boys say about this, giving THIS crowd a penalty, think Dougie, how can you get out of it?”
Strange thing is there is one other club in the UK/Ireland experiencing the same sort of treatment, Cliftonville in the Irish league.
The biggest culprit/bigot is a ref called Courtney and hes head of the refs association. Its time to bring all this to a head.
Has it been confirmed that the email exists? I know there was a statement saying that the matter would be dealt with internally, but if i remember correctly, it didnt mention whether the email existed
Mr G Peat is very very quiet on this issue unlike at other times when theres an anti celtic story on the go.