Celtic fans demand club statement after Referee Chief Crawford Allan breaks his season long silence

Some Celtic fans are calling on the club to stand up and call out Crawford Allan.

After a season of highly controversial decisions by match officials the Head of Refereeing at the SFA stepped out of his bunker to explain Celtic’s midweek goal against Hearts to Radio Scotland listeners. It was the first time this season that Allan has been heard, preferring to let issues blow over.

There has been no conclusive proof whether or not Kyogo Furuhashi was offside. Tony Ralston provided the pass, it could have been on a straight line or it may have been very marginally a forward or backward pass. It was difficult to call.

That didn’t stop Kris Boyd leading the bandwagon on how Celtic had been gifted a goal, strangely when the two teams met at the start of the season with the same referee, Bobby Madden, there was little coverage given to the Celtic ‘goal’ that was wrongly disallowed for offside.

At Hampden last month Stephen Welsh had to be substituted after taking an elbow in the jaw, Nick Walsh felt that it was a booking for Shaun Rooney. Four weeks earlier the same referee booked Cameron Carter-Vickers for getting kicked twice on the ground, his attacker got the same punishment.

Allan never stepped forward to explain those decisions, or how 27 free kicks could be awarded against Celtic at Aberdeen while having 61% possession.

With Celtic now in the firing line of the SFA and the media some fans are looking for a response from their club, although many are anticipating more silence.

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