The SFA has been sitting on an SPFL report to resolve the role of the Compliance Officer for seven months!
Last season seemed to be a complete shambles with cases apparently picked at random while othermore serious incidents escaped punishment.
Five players- Scott McKenna, Steven MacLean, Dolly Menga, Ryan Kent and Darnell Johnson- all received retrospective red cards for incidents in matches against Celtic, that figure would have been greater if Jon Flanagan hadn´t successfully appealed against a retrospective red.
The Flanagan-Scott Brown incident seemed to sum up the breakdown in the system with an SPFL review submitted in June.
The Daily Record reports:
An SPFL proposal to solve the disciplinary shambles engulfing the SFA has been ignored by their top brass for seven months,
MailSportcan reveal.Plans were put forward last June by a high-powered working group, commissioned originally by SFA chief executive Ian Maxwell, to streamline controversial Compliance Officer Clare Whyte’s role.
But the blueprint from a six-strong panel led by Celtic, Rangers and and perplexed that despite Morelos being yellow carded for his gesture following his sending off against Celtic, the club itself is now being carpeted for it.
On Friday – 19 days after the powderkeg derby fixture – Rangers were hit with a conduct charge and potential fine from the Hampden hierarchy.
It seemed that the Compliance Officer role had become redundant this season but on December 31 Ryan Christie was hit with a two match ban that was confirmed as brutality.
Celtic fired off their standard disappointed statement but it has taken the Daily Record to reveal that a report from the SPFL, involving the clubs most effected, has been gathering dust.
So far this season Alfredo Morelos has avoided being charged by the Compliance Officer. In September he deliberately stood on Chris Jullien´s foot then pushed him in the chest, in the League Cup Final he raked his studs down the Frenchman´s Achilles. Finally after being sent off in the Celtic Park derby in December his slit throat gesture at fans went unpunished.