John Kennedy is expecting Ryan Christie’s appeal to the SFA at Hampden today to be successful.
The midfielder has been offered a two match suspension for an incident picked up by the Compliance Officer who has so far failed to deal with gun gesture from Ryan Kent or the slit throat warning from Alfredo Morelos.
How the Compliance Officer operates is a complete mystery but that is down to the clubs who have agreed to the current set up.
Referee Kevin Clancy awarded a free-kick against Christie for the second half incident but today at Hampden the same incident could result in the midfielder missing out against Partick Thistle and Kilmarnock.
Kennedy told the Daily Record:
I find it very surprising. I would be astounded if he gets found guilty of it and they follow through with the charge. If that is the case then there will be numerous cases throughout the season where somebody grabs or accidentally touches somebody.
I have seen these situations what they are trying to accuse him of before. If you are static in the box at a corner kick and are marking somebody and you do a fly one. At the time, nothing was made of it.
Morelos didn’t make anything of it to Ryan or anybody else about him. That speaks volumes in itself. I will be very, very, surprised, astonished actually, if anything comes of it.
Last season Clancy booked Jon Flanagan for elbowing Scott Brown in the face. The Compliance Officer decided to upgrade it to a two match suspension which was successfully appealed.
In March the SFA will be looking to Christie to help Scotland through two play offs against Israel and Norway/Serbia to save Ian Maxwell the embarrassment of hosting matches at Euro 2020 with Scotland missing out.
A fairly dismissive reply.https://t.co/XDw1zn94rp
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