Steven Pressley has been called before the SFA to explain his comments after the League Cup semi-final defeat from Celtic.
At half time in the match the Falkirk boss angrily confronted referee Euan Norris about Celtic’s first half penalty and continued to question the impartiality of the official after the match.
“I’m so disappointed for the players,” Pressley claimed. “We gave so much to the game and it was decided on two debatable decisions.
“The two pivotal decisions in the game went Celtic’s way and we paid the price for that.
“I just wanted justice for my players. The issue for me is would it have been given in the other box? That’s the question for me.”
Pressley will have that very question answered when he appears in front of the SFA on February 23 and will also have a few questions to answer himself.
Rule 68 of the SFA states: “No recognised football body, club, official, Team Official or other member of Team Staff, player or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA, shall in an interview, a ‘blog’ on the internet, on a social networking or micro-blogging site, or in any other manner calculated or likely to lead to publicity (i) criticise the performance(s) of any or all match official(s) in such a way as to indicate bias or incompetence on the part of such match official; or (ii) make remarks about such match official(s) which impinge on his character.”
Hopefully after the hearing the Falkirk boss will retract his comment or explain what he was implying.
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“The two pivotal decisions in the game went Celtic’s way and we paid the price for that”
Yeah alright Steve you forgot to mention the perfectly good goal that we had chalked for offside.
This is ridiculous.
I am not trying to condone what Elvis did or said. But the inconsistency here is screaming out for help! Why is it that to date, every manager who publicly complained about refereeing decisions, with the very clear and distinct exception of Butcher and McCoist, are being pulled up?
Let’s be honest, Pressley shakes hands the same way as those two, but he did somethign different in his playing career! He wore the hoops! McCoist got away with some pretty disgraceful comments towards the ref involved in the elbowing incident that saw elbows McCulloch receive a red card, and Butchers comments against his player receiving a red card for the same thing against us.
Just what is the criteria? What is it that determines if you will be pulled up for punishement or not?
Why does this happen year in, year out? I know Rangers can’t pay fines anyway, but they can serve bans like the rest of us!!
Well said Joe, it was incredulous that Butcher and then McCoist got off scot free after their outbursts even more so when McIntyre was hauled up for having a go at the Ref after falling for Aluko’s dive which he was perfectly correct about.
The shocking inconsistency in the application of the rules is there for all to see but little gets said, we all know if NL had said what Butcher or McCoist said he would have been hauled over the coals but not the two men who have one thing in common….