At lunchtime on Monday the SFA announced that Crawford Allan was stepping down as Head of Refereeing but will helpfully stay in place until the end of the season.
Later on that day Stephen McGowan revealed that Allan had been ousted after a vote of no confidence from Premiership clubs over the use of VAR.
Those clubs that effectively voted Allan out of his lucrative job with virtually no public accountability will now be subjected to his appointments over the remainder of the season.
Only a complete idiot or the CEO of the SFA would allow this situation to arise.
Crawford Allan started as head of refs Jan 2020.
This coincides precisely with Rangers’ two incredible back to back runs of 44 & 75 league games without conceding a penalty starting January 2020 to January 2024. https://t.co/04z4zxwX7Z
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) March 18, 2024
There can be no doubt that Allan is following orders from Ibrox, his exclusion of Willie Collum from 10 SPFL rounds of fixtures since the December 30 Glasgow Derby confirms that decision despite the denials.
With a Fourth Official and VAR to be appointed that is 30 possible appointments for Collum all of which have been ignored in favour of the routine of John Beaton, Steven McLean, David Dickinson, Alan Muir and Don Robertson.
If there was any monitoring of performances by the SFA red flags would have been out early for the incredible 75 SPFL match run without having a penalty awarded with more than a season of those matches covered by VAR.
With the slimmest of margins between the title contenders for the richest ever SPFL prize Allan should be tucked away on gardening leave with an outside agency such as UEFA managing the Referee Department through until the end of the season.
A lot of E mails quickly being frantically deleted from Allan’s phone too from all kinds of sources ,that could be troublesome ? The What’s App Scottish Government debacle will be small potatoes in comparison …..
Now you’ve highlighted, once again, the corruption that goes on in Scottish football…I look forward to our Club nailing this mob at BR’s upcoming ” meeting ” …and that it brings back memories of The Bunnet’s unbelievable victory against the Establishment.
IF it’s been correctly reported that Allan has been ‘resigned’
as a result of a no-confidence vote by the clubs,
then logically, Allan would be immediately placed on
gardening leave for 3 months – or whatever the period is in his contract.
As an obvious comparison:
IF the SFA’s IT Director, [if they have one], was given the bullet,
would the SFA Directors be happy for him/her to play about on their
IT systems for another 3 months?!
Allan must be on gardening leave now,
or the SFA , [i.e. Maxwell], is leaving itself wide open
for even more unrest from the disatisfied clubs.
Hi, Joe
Do you know who Rogers appears before? In other words who are the panel members?
Editor: Apparently it is an independent panel of three… kind of appointed by the SFA that tolerates and encourages Maxwell, Allan and the others.
Thanks, Joe
Yeah, that rings a bell; because I seem to recall Mr McCoist ranting about “we need to know who these people are!” although this time they might be different people, I suppose.