He was useless- former player hits out at whimpering Andrew Dallas
Tam McManus has given a short and accurate reply to a whimpering interview with Andrew Dallas.
The son of Hugh has given an interview to The Sun explaining the heartbreak and pain he went through having to give up on his refereeing money-spinner, only to be rescued by a very convenient appointment from the SFA as a full time VAR official.
The recruitment process involved remains a secret.
Andrew managed to find himself on the FIFA list at the age of 31 without having refereed a single Celtic match, an incredible rise through the ranks thanks to Daddy and membership of the Lanarkshire Refereeing Association.
His appointments were regularly marked by controversy over his failure to grasp the rules, in the 2013/14 season he forgot to record a booking for Ian Black in his match report which allowed the Ibrox star to escape a suspension.
Famously in February 2019 he awarded four penalties against St Mirren in a game at Ibrox, earlier that season he came to the rescue with two penalties in the last 10 minutes to ease Steven Gerrard’s side through to victory away to Hamilton.
He was useless? https://t.co/vF6MZr8s03
— Tam McManus (@The_Tman10) October 19, 2023
In December 2020 Andrew was scheduled to take charge of a League Cup tie at St Mirren but suffered a sore leg in the warm up. David Dickinson stepped in with Gerrard’s side losing 3-2 to end their treble hopes.
The following day at Ross Hall Hospital Dallas was told that he needed a hip replacement operation or to take nine months rest, an incredible verdict on someone at the age of 37 that had been picking up refereeing fees all of his adult life.
Dallas tried to battle on the following season, in an emotional gesture the SFA gave him his final match at Ibrox on May 11 for the visit of Ross County, fittingly James Tavernier scored from a penalty in the 29th minute.
Soon afterwards Andrew and his family suffered dehydration issues on holiday in Spain, Aaron Ramsey’s penalty wasn’t retaken.
On Sunday Dallas will be on VAR duty for Celtic’s match away to Hearts.
Gave 4 pens to his favourite team in one game. 2 of them were outside the box. His dad is a known sectarian bigot who lost his job for sending anti catholic emails around the SFA.
Our game is better off without him and his father.
— Opus Dei (@RyanTodd1978) October 19, 2023
There’s more than him. Walsh !!!
— Alan Maclean (@Aber87) October 19, 2023
And his Dad couldn’t keep bailing him out?
— SeanAFCTHFC (@kintoredon) October 19, 2023
Disgraceful, gravy train all right. Amazing the number of surnames that we know of old that have positions in the SFA. Corrupt and useless!
— kilMARKnock (@k1lMARKnock) October 19, 2023