Former Celt Liam Miller has had his red card against Kilmarnock downgraded to a yellow.
Referee Craig Thomson continued his horror season by ordering the midfielder off with ten minutes to go in his side’s 2-0 defeat at Ruby Park.
A brief statement from the SFA said: “After a meeting of the Review Panel today, the claim of wrongful dismissal submitted by Hibernian following the dismissal of Liam Miller for violent conduct (Kilmarnock v Hibernian, 18 December 2010) was upheld.
“The offence has been reduced to a caution for unsporting behaviour (deliberate tripping).”
Last week’s McLeish Report called on the SFA to show accountability and openness but the statement declines to give any explanation of why Miller was red carded or if Thomson’s performance has been marked down.
After the match Hibs boss Colin Calderwood said: “Whether it was the right decision, I haven’t seen it again so I’m viewing it from behind. I was surprised he deemed it violent conduct.
“It stopped us really pushing and allowing us to have time on the ball. I’m not saying we would have equalised but we might have made it a more exciting finish.”
Thomson is expected to be in charge of the Rangers-Celtic match on January 2 and has been left out of the next two rounds of SPL appointments.
The last Celtic match that he was in charge of was the 2-0 defeat at Hearts in November which saw Joe Ledley and Neil Lennon ordered off.
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And to think this is the best we have………………………………………………..
Talk about feint praise!
Imagine having ‘I’m rated as one of the best referees in Scotland’ on your cv!
This clown is having a nightmare season, like he did last year but seems to be lined up for January 2- that says it all about the Dallas legacy
Putting everything else to the side, and that’s a lot to shift, surely a referee who is making mistakes shouldn’t get Scotland’s biggest game? It sounds simple enough to me, yet it’s those refs that seem to be handed the big ones.
Dougie McDonald was horrendous in games featuring many Premier Division teams and demotion wasn’t even thought about. How can that be? It’s ridiculous.
We have refs in the top division that I probably couldn’t name if I saw a picture and they’re the ones I want getting the big games. I couldn’t name them because they don’t go getting their name in the papers with shoddy performances, they just go about their job quietly and efficiently.
Referees that are doing a bad job have to be punished with demotion. They can’t be rewarded for being bad at their job. Give others the chance and all the refs a standard to reach for.
Was it not the dreaded 4th offical that brought this up, just like swinecastle with Lenny?
Also on Tuesday night the 4th offical reported Lenny to nelsons column little b*s*a*rd, they have got it in for our staff, some of Column’s decisions were a mockery