Vincent Lunny has revealed that he suspected a referee of fabricating a report against a manager.
The former SFA Compliance Officer made a surprise appearance on Radio Scotland in midweek during which he made a number of references to former SFA communications manager Daryl Broadfoot.
Lunny became Compliance Officer in October 2011 with Rangers going into administration soon afterwards. When the Ibrox club was put into liquidation Stewart Regan warned of social unrest at the consequences.
The season before he took up his job there was a short lived referee strike with the powerful Referee Association still living in a world beyond scrutiny and accountability.
“I raised a case against a referee for fabricating a report.”
Former compliance officer for the SFA – Vincent Lunny – reveals a “difficult time” in the role.
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“I did have a fall out with the head of the Referees’ Association at one point,” Lunny told the BBC.
“There was one quite difficult case I remember where a manager was accused of fairly aggressive shouting and swearing at a referee and the evidence suggested that that might be made up.
“And I raised a case against the referee for fabricating a report, which became very difficult and in the end the panel was not satisfied that the breach was made out but that was a difficult time.
“For the referee, his career as a referee would be finished and the Referees’ Association were not happy with me at all for taking this forward.
“But from a lawyer’s point of view and trying to be as independent as you can you’re given a situation and given witness statements that pointed in that direction and I, as my duty was, was to take that forward.”
Current Compliance Officer Tony McGlennan has been investigating the UEFA licence given to Rangers (IL) in 2011 for over four months after fresh evidence surfaced at the Craig Whyte trial.
