Lodge Prince of Wales, Renfrew
Willie Collum has produced another VAR whitewash to justify the decision making of David Dickinson.
For reasons only known to the SFA Head of Refereeing die-hard Ibrox fan Dickinson was handed a Christmas bonus of being put in charge of his favourite team three times within six weeks.
On December 3 Dundee United were the victims of two game changing penalty decisions. On December 27 Motherwell were denied a clear penalty at Ibrox with Dickinson having many friends and family in the stands at Ibrox.
Last Sunday, January 11, Aberdeen had a penalty awarded against them in very similar circumstances to the one that Motherwell were denied at Ibrox.
DICKINSON DECIDES
In three matches four penalty decisions all went in one direction.
John Beaton was the VAR at Pittodrie, Greg Aitken for Motherwell’s trip to Ibrox. Both have plenty in common with Dickinson.
During the VAR Review Dickinson wasn’t even mentioned by name. Gordon Duncan went through the Motherwell and Aberdeen decisions without mentioning that the same referee viewed two very similar incidents differently.
After starting promisingly the VAR Review has turned into a parody as Collum excuses the weekly nightmares inflicted by his refereeing buddies.
All sorts of excuses are dredged up. When no excuse can be found Collum drops back to ‘subjectivity’ as 11 SPFL clubs are handicapped for the benefit of one.
Fans of every club in Scotland know what Dickinson and his family are. So does Collum and he happily puts Dickinson in charge of his favourite club knowing the decisions that will be delivered.
No, no. No, no chance. He just hits the deck under very minimal contact Greg (Aitken)
When you hear the audio Dickinson sounds just like any other fan. Like Uncle David in Australia or his Mother Eileen, both of him were watching the matches.
The Dickinson family like to hold special events at Lodge Prince of Wales in Renfrew.
Dickinson’s attitude to both penalty decisions is very different. The way that he repeatedly says no shows his concern and a lack of professionalism.
Unfortunately no club in Scotland is prepared to ask questions. Why does one referee get the same club three times in less than six weeks? Why do referees from Glasgow, Lanarkshire and surrounding areas constantly get the high profile matches?
Collum and his bestie will be back again next month with more of the same.
Gave up watching the VAR review show its as bent as the refs.
Bring back fergus or at the least the Whyte’s and the Kelly’s.
Willie Collum is spinely
willie no balls will see to it that the game against hearts will be a draw , setting it up for sevco to sail into town as champions , I wonder what pete knew ? Haw !
Editor: The 2012 Six Way Agreement?
I have a quick question for Willy boy ? Why are known theRangers supporting referees and VAR poodles allowed to officiate theRangers games ..home and away ? The equivalent in englandland are required to declare which team of allegiance they support all in the name of fairness and honesty . Yet up here in wee Scotland there is no such requirement and the stench of corrupt practices from officialdom is overwhelming and rotten .
Too right–imagine that shi teballs happening in ANY other so called professional league-
Think MC be cool with a MU die-hard officiating a derby game..
Spanish derbies…
Polish…..
Who’d av it —absolutely pathetic that Scotland as a whole ( way to many incidents lately ), would put up with this amateurish, embarrassing tripe…
Hard to believe it still exists….
Var video advantage rangers
Makes me so glad that I no longer pay to be cheated !
That said I was cheated plenty over many years !
When we are playing well and scoring goals, these VAR decisions mean nothing, as we will always win the league by miles.
But when we are shite and Sevco can keep in touch, that’s when they make the difference, and that’s when they become more frequent.
The likes of Dickenson becomes emboldened as he knows he’s actually making a difference.
When they meet Hearts, I would expect a penalty to get Sevco in front early then a red to reinforce the advantage.
I will be investing in that scenario one way or another.
Yes, that scenario might be advantageous to us, but once Sevco are that close to the top, we can all expect the pattern of assistance to ramp up a gear or two.
There are quite a few bad, biased refs.
But for me, Dickenson is by far the worst, simply because he just doesn’t give a f**k who knows it.
As for Collum, I still think the man has tried to change the game for the better, but as is football in Scotland, it is institutionally biased and bigoted at every single level as is society too, and if he rocked the boat, he’d be man overboard, it’s as simple as that.
He’s protecting his livelihood, and let’s be honest, would only ever be replaced by someone worse, like Beaton.
Scotland, and particularly the West Coast, is akin to South Africa during apartheid when it comes to religious hatred.
That’s where all the problems begin and end.
A bigoted, racist and hateful wee country run by bigoted, racist and hateful wee men.
I saw a pic the other day on Fudbook, a week old baby dressed in Sevco finery pictured in a living room with Sevco wallpaper, the caption? “ my lovely wee bear”.
That kid doesn’t stand a chance and will be indoctrinated into the hate everything green and catholic squad by the time it hits primary school…..and so on it goes.
I have never been able to fathom how, at a week old, someone’s first thoughts are, lets go by the wean a full fitba kit.
Maybe that’s just me, I dunno, but in these times, you are opening up young kids to abuse through their early years as we know a lot quickly become morons once their taught the
basics and take it to school or playing.
I get that we need the next generations to become supporters but what happened to just making your own mind up once you’ve seen some football.
If my lad asked me once, he asked me a hundred times for a Celtic top when he was young, he never ever got one.
Took him to games, he enjoyed them, told him when he was old enough to buy his own, no problem.
Unfortunately, we lived in a hun stronghold and I just wasn’t prepared to see him abused on a daily basis as others were, even adults having a go because of what strip a child had on.
He is now 35, and couldn’t give a monkeys about football in general, and that was his choice.
Scotland really is a f**ked up society when it comes to this stuff.
Sorry for the wee rant but I witnessed this kind if pish myself a few days ago and it just makes you sad and angry in equal measure.
As these bent bastards are wearing the FIFA badge and not the SFA badge, are FIFA aware of the poor standard and cheating that they demonstrate on a weekly basis?