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  1. @ Kingsmills Everyone is entitled to their opinion. However you appear to have missed the point. Celtic was inundated with demands from supporters to provide an explanation wrt the incident. I personally believe that clubs even if they are ultimately owned by a Plc have a duty to respond to valid issues raised by their fans. Perhaps ICT fans don't raise issues with their club that they are unhappy about - if they don't then that's their decision and I have no comment to make on it. Some Celtic shareholders have been pursuing Res 12 which you may have heard of and that began with a shareholder resolution to the club's agm. It could have major consequences for football in Scotland and IMO is an issue that needs answered. I think most football fans, irrespective of club, want a level playing field and the rules to be honestly applied without fear or favour. In an incident like this fans are left with no actual answers as to what the officials saw or didn't see and what decision they made or didn't make. In these circumstances I think it essential that clarification is sought - not to punish Meekins or detract from ICT's well deserved victory but to see if there are any rules changes required or any ways in which a similar incident can be prevented in future or at least reduced. I therefore don't see Celtic's move as 'arrogance' but more a direct and necessary reaction to their support and also something which might improve the game by ensuring fair play is the standard which must always be the goal. Obviously you have some real issues with Celtic and Rangers which IMO have absolutely nothing to do with this incident and detract from the cool discussion that is required not to dragged into the SFA PR spin to turn an ICT player into a scapegoat for the abject failure of the refs. Let's deal with the matter in hand and not get dragged-off into virtually calling for the expulsion of two clubs from Scottish Football.
  2. I've been a Celtic supporter for almost 60 years and was at Sunday's Game and of course I was disappointed that we got beat and it does hurt to get so close to a Treble and not get it. But that feeling would have been the same if the incident involving Josh had never happened. I don't know a single Celtic supporter that want's to see him barred from the final. He should have been dealt with at the time and that might have seen him miss the final - who knows? But IMO the fact that every official was temporarily 'blind' at the crucial moment isn't good enough reason for the Compliance Officer to act and I think it's a deliberate attempt by the SFA to scapegoat Meekings as a deflection from the gross failure of every single match official. Celtic fans have many reasons to distrust the SFA - some good and other perhaps not - but they have no impact on what's going on here. As to Celtic's right to ask for an explanation: I would ask if positions were reversed on the day would ICT fans not be demanding an explanation? I'm sure they would. In the past these kinds of things were dealt with secfretly and privately and surely in this day and age football fans want to move-on into a more transparent approach to governing the game and ways to improve that process. ICT well deserved their victory on Sunday and deserve to be in the final. IMO so does Josh Meekings - I simply don't care whether it was intentional or accidental although I do think it was a penalty and I don't believe none of the officials saw the incident. Whether they saw his hand hit the ball or 'saw' his face hit the ball or surmied it was his head that hit the ball I haven't a clue. But they - for whatever reason - appear to have taken a vow of Omerta. Meekings, on the other hand, has been honest since the post-match interview in saying it struck his hand and admitting he was lucky. I admire they guy for that because he didn't fudge the question and told the truth. For that alone he deserves to be in the final! celtic as a club have no axe to grind with the player or ICT - you have given us good games and the odd roasting and we value you as worthy opponents and good footballers and I would hate to think SFA manufactured nonsense and PR spin could create a rift between us. I'm sure it won't.
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