Paul McBride has delivered a shameful verdict on the SFA’s latest ruling.
The QC managed to get a 6 match touchline ban on Neil Lennon reduced to four but was left amazed by the SFA’s refusal to punish anyone connected with Rangers following their Scottish Cup defeat to Celtic.
Despite clearly manhandling and disregarding a red card Rangers pair Madjid Bougherra and El Hadji Diof got off with fines for their misdemeanours.
“”Officially tonight we now know the SFA to be the laughing stock of world football,” he told the BBC “The decisions are incoherent, they are, on the face of it, thoroughly dishonest.
“I never thought they were biased or prejudiced but now, hearing what they’ve done today, it’s very hard to escape that conclusion. We have a position whereby the person who was provoked gets a four-match ban and the person who does the provoking is let off.
“We have a Rangers player, Bougherra, manhandling a referee, not once but twice, and there is no ban.
“We have El-Hadji Diouf who is abusing the Celtic manager and throwing his top into the crowd and refusing to leave the park and behaving badly – no ban.
“What does any sensible person think of that?”
McBride was speaking in a personal capacity and cannot be censured by the SFA.
He added: “Celtic, and I hope they refuse to comment on this, I suspect will be privately bemused and seething by today’s result.
“I was prepared, as were Celtic, to give them the benefit of the doubt with their various incoherent and inconsistent decisions.
“I don’t think they’re getting the benefit of the doubt now from anyone.
“I don’t think this benefits Rangers either – this makes our governing body look beyond stupid.”
Biased, corrupt and incompetent. A complete disgrace and beyond contempt.
I’m almost certain Swally had received a nod on this before he assembled the laptop loyal in Eindhoven and stated that he didn’t have a case to answer.
the sfa ARE beyond stupid, they are bigots.
WHO NOW ARE SCOTLAND’S SHAME,
Scottish Football Association,
Rangers FC,
not us for having the audacity of questioning the LOYAL BRIGADE,
We stand alone where is the support from the rest of Scottish football?
None they are all mice
i might be reading too much into it but isn’t the timing of eufa’s 2nd sectarian chanting charge a bit odd? could eufa be hitting them with this charge straight after the sfa have shown blatant bias and discrimination against celtic in response to this blatant sfa/rangers cheating? maybe its not a coincidence, they could be sending a message to the establishment – you cheat celtic, we come down on you using your own sectarian filth to do it.