Every one of Crawford Allan’s referees enjoy the attention and spotlight, even the notoriety of having the cameras on them. None more than Willie Collum.
The Lanarkshire based referee likes nothing more than flashing a red card at some errant player or dramatically pointing to the penalty spot for an incident that only he has witnessed.
Famously in 2010 he awarded a penalty against Celtic with his back to play. That sort of decisive action ensured more than a decade of leading domestic appointments topped up by lucrative foreign jollys.
Promoted way beyond his ability Collum found himself at Euro 2016 in France, after taking charge of two group matches he was sent packing and has been watching the big competitions from his sofa following a polite no thanks from UEFA despite the lobbying of Hugh Dallas.
Willie Collum has awarded Rangers 3 penalties this season.
Rangers made a formal complaint regarding Willie Collum and questioned his competency. pic.twitter.com/HOAsKFEvfM
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) March 4, 2023
Back in August, after awarding the softest of penalties for contact on Antonio Colak, Collum sent off two of Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s men in a 2-2 draw with Hibs. News of anger from inside Ibrox to the SFA was quickly leaked.
With that reminder of what is expected Collum was back in charge of the Ibrox side in January at home to St Johnstone where he completed a Full House of honest mistakes. Nicky Clark was sent off, Ryan Jack wasn’t and Tavpen added to his tally from his favourite distance.
Yesterday against Kilmarnock it was much the same, Tavpen made it 3-0 just before half-time, taking no chances Killie were denied a far clearer penalty in the 47th minute when Allan McGregor wiped out Rory McKenzie.
So far this season Nick Walsh has refereed two Glasgow derbies with John Beaton getting the other. It looks like Collum is building a strong case to be in the spotlight on April 8.
Penalty shout for Kilmarnock v Rangers for a challenge from McGregor. pic.twitter.com/jZXHXyTNy0
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) March 4, 2023
Not even Kunt claimed for that Tavpen yesterday.
That fuckin retard collum has no shame.HH
It doesn’t matter about any of these dodgy biased calls ,unless other teams that are penalised along with us start complaining to the powers that be but no one seems to care about all the cheating in sevcos favour.
It’s been like that before new co but var was suppose to stop it but refs know sfa will back them niel lennon who shamefully was let down by sfa spl police and law courts outed them and they went on strike should have cleaned them out then and with dallas getting a top job in eufa but they have sacrificed there profession by there biased against Celtic_fc_1888 that they don’t get picked by fifa