No, The SFA Is Not Doing Celtic A Favour By Delaying The Brendan Rodgers Hearing.
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Today I read one of the more ridiculous reports on the current standoff between us and the SFA. The report itself wasn’t the problem.
Written on a fan site, it was in fact a transcript of Richard Gordon, of the BBC, mounting a defence of the governing body, doubtless based on some briefing, quite possibly from someone like Broadfoot, seeking to justify the Rodgers hearing delay.
Gordon’s claim, or rather the one that has been fed to him, is that there is no fast-track system available for these cases, and that the length of time between the event and the hearing is actually designed to – are you waiting for this? – help the clubs in question because it allows them the proper time to prepare the details of their case.
Wow. So, the scheduling is a favour to us? One that just so happens, in this close title race, to disadvantage us in a big, big way. What a crock of shit.
Ask Celtic what they’d prefer here, and I can almost guarantee we’d support an expedited process. And if we are happy with an expedited process then what’s the excuse for not doing this a lot sooner? There is no excuse, we’re being screwed and it’s very obvious that we are.
The timing of this doesn’t help us one bit, and everyone involved knows it.
It must be nice to have a media which dances to your tune, no matter how bad it is. It must be nice to have subservient hacks who eat whatever you give them right off the spoon.
Our club doesn’t have the luxury of that. Our club is surrounded by negativity and this season more than any other that I can remember.
If this system existed to benefit clubs at all – or maybe, and this is just a theory, it only exists to benefit certain clubs – we’d be able to petition for an earlier date and get a fair hearing at the right time.
There is no chance of that. A system which is allegedly designed to give us the benefit of the doubt has been weaponised against us just as VAR itself has.
What makes it worse is that we are expected to swallow these kinds of excuses for it. Celtic should have made a statement about this last night and called it out. I don’t know what goes on in the minds of those who run this club at times, and this is one of them.