‘Blatant cheat’ Celtic Supporters Chief urges Michael Nicholson to demand answers from SFA

Joe O’Rourke has urged Michael Nicholson to demand answers from the SFA about Saturday’s match away to Ross County.

The hoops won 3-0 to go eight points clear at the top of the SPFL but it was David Munro and Andrew Dallas that dominated the post match discussions among fans.

During the first half two Celtic ‘goals’ were disallowed on the flimsiest of evidence while two clear shirt pulls in the penalty box were shown by Sky Sports but unpunished by VAR.

O’Rourke is the head of the Celtic Supporters Association which holds fairly regular meetings with Nicholson, earlier this season he urged the club to reject tickets for Ibrox unless it was for 5% of the stadium capacity.

Refereeing issues are an ongoing concern for Celtic fans, writing on the Celtic Supporters Association website O’Rourke asks:

Big Malky’s job became almost impossible when James Brown was red carded in under ten minutes, and having seen the pictures and video replay’s, why did referee David Munro think it was only a yellow card?

I think we all know the answer to that, I remember the penalty he gave against Matt O’Riley, the guy is a “Blatant Cheat” but the Biggest Cheat of them all, is the Head of Referees, Crawford Allan.

The best time to complain is when you win, so Celtic should be onto Mr Allan first thing this morning, asking for explanations about two disallowed goals, about at least a couple of penalty challenges on Celtic players, and about the general performance of David Munro.

As ever under Nicholson it seems that quietly accepting whatever obstacles are thrown in the club’s way is the policy he is most comfortable with.