Reticence is no longer an option as SFA go to war with Celtic

The Scottish FA has charged Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers, as was predicted, in relation to his remarks made at Tynecastle on Sunday following Celtic’s 2-0 loss to Hearts.

With the hearing scheduled on March 28th, Rodgers will undoubtedly be forced to miss the April 6th Glasgow Derby at Ibrox. The positive thing to come out of this is that, finally, Celtic may be ready to confront the Scottish FA about their partiality and bias towards the different teams that play out of Ibrox. Celtic will defend the manager to the hilt in this match.

 

Brendan would probably miss the crucial trip to Ibrox one week later and the away games against Livingston at the end of the month if he is proven guilty as charged. John Beaton’s intervention to re-officiate the match resulted in the Scottish FA dismissing Celtic’s appeal against Yang’s red card. The player will now miss two games as Celtic and the Scottish FA battle it out.

Celtic, it’s high time we brought the fight to them. Perhaps they might begin by drawing a connection between the Rangers’ treatment and the Scottish FA’s Five Way Agreement. Peter Lawwell, the chairman of Celtic, has consistently denied knowing anything about the agreement, so perhaps he should actually read it. Peter, we all know that you are aware.

The gently, softly approach of the Celts has not worked. And as a result, the Celtic manager will be apart from his players during the build-up to kickoff and long after the game concludes in April’s Ibrox Glasgow Derby. While nobody at all supports The Rangers’ John Beaton’s call to fabricate a penalty for Hearts on Sunday, he has truly struck gold with this one.

After first giving Yang a yellow card and after Robertson, like everyone else watching the game, observed nothing noteworthy in the Tomoki Iwata jump, referee John Beaton sent the Rangers supporter to check his monitor. Yang was therefore given a red card and a penalty on top of the yellow card that Celtic had originally received for him.

When Brendan Rodgers called out John Beaton, not a single word he said was untrue, yet instead of standing up for Beaton, these folks will defend Rodgers.

To refresh your memory of what Brendan stated:

“I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and respect their judgments. However, I believe that when I witness that degree of—well, incompetence, if you will—that’s what worries me about the game. That can make all the difference in a title this narrow. Additionally, I don’t believe that VAR is the issue here. That is evident. It’s proficiency.

“The sending off without force is the first one. If you show a still picture of that, you will obviously see the head close to the foot, but that isn’t how the move actually happens. On the field, Don truly got it right. With no malice or force, it’s a yellow card because it was a high boot.

“It was sending off, for John Beaton to really look at that in VAR, ostensibly without any pressure? That is amazing to me.

“It’s worse, the second one. Every weekend and every midweek there will be penalties if you have one against you for that.

Reticence is no longer an option because the Scottish FA, represented by panelist John Beaton and compliance officer, has launched their own attack on Celtic. Beaton must have been on vacation when Clement was yelling blue murder at Christmas because he never received an offside penalty.

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