The Crawford Allan rumour

The announcement of Crawford Allan’s departure from the SFA comes 10 days before Brendan Rodgers answers a Notice of Complaint at Hampden Park.

Comments made after Celtic’s 2-0 defeat at Tynecastle on March 3 prompted the SFA to take action, Celtic have decided to contest the charge which is a rarity since the events of July 2012 when the Five (Six) Way Agreement was rushed through.

Rodgers spoke briefly about the Notice of Complaint at his media conferences on March 1, mentioning that he would discuss the issue with Celtic and their lawyers.

With CEO Michael Nicholson a qualified Sports Lawyer the solution should be in-house but after two and a half years of doing nothing in particular it wouldn’t be a surprise if Celtic went outside as Rodgers challenges a likely two match touchline ban.

The events since the match at Tynecastle are in stark contrast to the campaign launched against Willie Collum by the club formed in 2012 by Charles Green.

After an ‘Ibrox source’ briefed their media messengers the SFA opted to take no action, on February 15 Allan praised Philippe Clement for speaking up for Collum after a month long campaign against the Lanarkshire referee who got no backing from the SFA.

Within a week of the Glasgow Derby Ibrox CEO James Bisgrove was sitting at Hampden listening to the audio between Willie Collum on VAR and Nick Walsh who refereed the match at Celtic Park.

If the SFA are unable to provide the audio between John Beaton and Don Robertson from Tynecastle it should be more than just the Notice of Complaint against Rodgers that is thrown out.