Ibrox Paints A Target On Collum’s Back And The Head Of Refereeing Praises Their Manager.

Have you ever heard such a sycophantic statement by an SFA bigwig towards a representative of a club who has openly painted a target on a referee’s back?

When the officials met at Hampden in the aftermath of Ibrox’s Willie Collum demand they were furious and accused the governing body of not doing enough to protect them.

Tonight, we see why.

The head of referees, Crawford Allan, last heard from when he interrupted a holiday to get himself onto the radio to explain a decision in a game involving Celtic, has come out tonight to defend VAR even as it those running it are accused of botching an entire series of decisions. That would be bad enough, and I’ll be writing about that tomorrow, but he’s gone further.

Crawford Allan has actually thanked the manager of the Ibrox club because he has backtracked on his own words, and offered support to officials.

This is a classic example of people at that club showing how they are capable of talking out of both sides of their mouth. And as per usual, the people who run the game here are swallowing it whole.

Earlier on this season, Manneken Piss was fulsome in his support of VAR, back when it was giving his side penalty kicks and deciding not to award them against them.

We said “let’s see how long that lasts.”

Only long enough, as it happened, for a decision or two to go the other way and then he became the latest in a long line of Ibrox managers to offer up the officials as scapegoats when his club doesn’t get the result it wants.

But Ibrox went much further than that of course, and actually deliberately targeted Collum. And you know what? The manager sat in total silence as they ramped up the case against him.

Only now, weeks down the line, with them having again gotten some calls (and fifteen minutes injury time the other day between both halves, I mean what?) is he suddenly 100% supportive again?

Ibrox plays its games. We know that.

But Allan has actually praised them for it, which elevates him to a whole new plain of stupidity and lowers him to a whole new point of subservience.

He claims that referees as a whole were delighted by this and thankful for it … is he kidding? I am sure they’re not as impressed by it as he is, but they’re not allowed to say it.

This really is pathetic from this guy. I said earlier that it was the media that was overdosing on the Clement Kool Aid; by the sounds of it they aren’t the only ones.