Regan confirms no appeal hearings before Wednesday
The much acclaimed Fast Track procedure has come under scrutiny recently with Rangers and Motherwell highly critical of the system.
With no procedure in place to hear appeals against decisions at the weekend Rangers are certain to appeal against Lee McCulloch’s red card at St Mirren knowing that regardless of the outcome the midfielder will be free to play against Celtic on Wednesday night.
Responding to the question of appeal hearings the SFA chief used his twitter account to clear up the matter saying: “There is not enough time between fixtures for Scottish FA and club to have allotted time to consider their position. So it will roll over until next panel.”
While most of the country returns to work tomorrow it seems that the SFA are unable to operate during the busy festive programme.
For the benefit of all players and clubs surely it shouldn’t have been too difficult to have half a dozen panel members on standby by to review incidents from Saturday ahead of the Wednesday card.
UPDATE At 4pm Monday Rangers confirmed that they will appeal against McCulloch’s red card with January 5 the first available date for the appeal to be heard.
If the appeal is rejected McCulloch will miss the Scottish Cup tie away to Arbroath.
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