Hearts winger David Templeton looks certain to be the first player of the new season to be hit with a retrospective suspension.
Templeton was seen lashing out with his feet at Hibs skipper James McPake after he had been awarded a free kick during Sunday’s derby at Easter Road.
Referee Willie Collum was just yards from the incident as he raced to the scene but chose to make an honest mistake and ignore Templeton’s kick at the Hibs skipper.
SFA compliance officer Vincent Lunny is believed to have studied footage of the incident and is set to offer Templeton a one match ban which can be appealed.
McPake said: “It was a boot from David. It might not have been the nicest of tackles from me and it was rightly a foul but you can’t just boot someone.
“But that’s up to the ref or whoever looks back on the game to make a decision.”
The incident happened with the score at 0-0 with the match ending in a 1-1 draw.
New Hearts boss John McGlynn admitted: “David may have been lucky to stay on but he had taken a bit of treatment.
“You can’t condone this but he has been provoked with the amount of challenges.”
Hearts next match is at home to Inverness Caley Thistle on Saturday. The draw at Easter Road took the Edinburgh side to the top of the SPL table alongside St Mirren but both Celtic and Dundee United are a point behind with Saturday’s clash between the two sides postponed for Celtic’s match with Real Madrid.
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God help us.! ! !
another mistake from gollum suprise suprise……
Yet another honest mistake from wee willie b**lbag Colum. That’s just face up to it….he’s just not up the top grade standard, come to think of it, not many A star ref’s in Scotland are ! If the face ( or something else) fits then they will get pushed up the ladder, that’s the way it’s all ways been.
At the Euros the ref’s had a laugh with with the players but still were able to perform to officiate at the highest standard, Howard Webb springs to mind.
In Scotland all we see is ref’s with stern faces,who can’nt share a joke, seems they must be the most important “pepeel” on the pitch,but Willie and Co. you are not, the players are. Good officials in Scotland are few and far between.
High Dallas may be gone but the old traditional ‘Dallas mould’ is still very much the way that Scottish ref’s are moulded and promoted.
A Presbyterian attitude and ‘The Masonic Guide-Book For Scottish Footballing Referees’ by the bedside are their bible. They don’t even have to write out the referee’s report after the game – it just get’s posted out to them courtesy of the Lodge in a nice orange envelope; possibly with a bonus tucked inside.
Scottish football isn’t just corrupt its . . .spectacularly. . .dazzlingly . . .and mind-blowingly corrupt. . .and that’s just the referees!
i really wont be surprised if, while sevco are away from the spl, hearts become the new establishment club. they have a good chance of making a challenge, and they’re not too distant from the identity of the huns…