The SFA have launched an investigation into how a self-isolating assistant referee ran the line at the Hibs v Hamilton match on Saturday.
It should be a short investigation since they appointed Graeme Stewart and oversaw the officials at Easter Road with Hibs winning 2-0.
Strangely the match seemed to kick off more than a minute late as both sets of players waited for Stewart to emerge. The Lanarkshire based official was on the Main Stand side of the pitch in close proximity to both management teams, the substitutes and Fourth Official.
At lunchtime today BBC Scotland reported:
The Scottish FA have launched an investigation after it emerged one of the assistant referees at Hibernian v Hamilton should have been isolating.
Graeme Stewart, along with David Roome and Bobby Madden, oversaw Panathinaikos v Olympiakos in Greece last weekend.
Roome then tested positive for Covid-19 and, although Stewart and Madden have returned two negative tests since returning. The SFA apologised to Hibs and Hamilton the day after Saturday’s match. And Madden was withdrawn from Ross County’s game with Celtic on Sunday.
Stewart spent last weekend in Athens with Roome and Madden, on Tuesday Roome was informed that he had tested positive. As close contacts the other two officials should have self-isolated with the SFA aware of the results after sanctioning and arranging the jolly to Athens.
In October the SFA were able to identify Ryan Christie as a close contact of Stuart Armstrong despite the protests of the Celtic player.
Madden intended picking up his match fee, expenses and mileage for the Celtic match until his journey was halted following the intervention of The Sun contacting the SFA.
