The SFA’s highly publicised ‘new disciplinary’ procedure has knocked back Inverness Caley Thistle’s appeal against Ross Tokely’s red card against Rangers on Saturday.
Despite claims of a new dawn and an era of accountability Tokely’s appeal against a one match suspension has been upheld by the anonymous panel.
Most commentators watching the incident complimented the Caley Thistle defenders challenge on Steven Naysmith despite the striker’s theatrical fall to the ground.
Referee Euan Norris was in no doubt about the decision pointing to the penalty spot and red carding Tokely who will be suspended for Saturday’s match with Aberdeen.
Earlier this week Caley Thistle boss Terry Butcher said: “We have carefully studied the action replays and they confirm my view at the time, that it was a perfectly timed tackle.
“We have now lodged an appeal and we hope that justice will be done and ‘Tokes’ will be eligible to face Aberdeen at Pittodrie on Saturday. The video evidence is there for all to see.”
A statement on the SFA website read: “Claim dismissed. One SPL match suspension, effective immediately.”
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There’s no point in getting our knickers in a twist over this….
any balanced and fair person knows it was the wrong decision…..
The SFA is protecting one of it’s own …again…..
despite promises to the contrary….
ONLY IN SCOTLAND….
Meant to ask also…can the Big Butcher do anything further..or is that it??…
shocking decision …both times…!!
It was the correct decision. Tokely went through the back of Naismiths leg before he touched the ball which is a foul going by the rule book.
Unless you have some other rule book we should be going by?
Right on Al. You tell them. there are rules then there are Rangers rules. The cheating continues…………………
Guys I am life long celtic fan and referee and I know the SFA are not always impartial. However on this occasion they got it right as Al said above. Don’t worry there will plenty of bad calls to complain about as the season progresses.
Dundee United v Celtic last season.
Celtic player gets pulled down in the penalty box against Dundee United last year. Result….a penalty is initially given….then it’s rescinded. Result no penalty
Reason given in hindsight….the defender got the ball first before he made contact with the player (even though he didn’t)
Tackle is therefore deemed to be fair
All and sundry tell us justice was done (even though it wasn’t)
ICT v Rangers last week
Ranger player is tackled in the penalty box. Defender gets the ball first and then makes contact with the Rangers player. Result…a penalty is given
Tackle is therefore deemed to be unfair.
5 from 3 is given the thumbs up…the cheating continues
Look on the bright side. At least now the bias and bigotry doesn’t have to wait months before it rears its head!They show the ugly side much faster now.
Same old SFA thought Regen might have made a difference.
What this decision shows is that the SFA,their panel and euan norris are either unaware or have chosen to disregard the obvious simulation of naismith.
Bear in mind that our refs are trained to spot simulation.
Dr Paul Morris(Portsmouth University) carried out research that showed footballers use a series of distinct actions when faking a fall during a match.
One action is unique to a faked fall – the archers bow the number one tell tale sign arms go above shoulder level in the fall.
Biomechanically this does not occur in a natural fall,arms go down and forward to cushion the fall.
Moving the body in the fashion that naismith did is completely controlled behaviour.
Now heres the thing FIFA,UEFA,SFA are all aware of this type of deception and their refs are trained accordingly.
So why does the sending off still stand ?