Steve Conroy, the Scottish referee, has resigned from being a ref. apparently there are several others due to follow because they are unhappy about the way they have been treated by the ref supervisors like Hugh Dallas and Donald McVicar and the processes still in place. http://m.dailyrecord.co.uk/ms/p/tmg/scotdr/sWqRsSdGouUBOI7nF8dg6uA/view.m?id=4236792&tid=638956&cat=SPL Conroy has be thinking about jacking it in for three years. And there was me thinking that it was all Lenny's fault from last year because the refs were happy as pigs in **** before he turned up.
Have you seen the paddy power advert when the cat gets punted? It's like that The time that referees and linesmen commit to in order to keep the SFA happy is unreal. Pretty sure most of them don't mind though, it's part and parcel of being a grade 1 official
I was hoping it was paraplegic football with big ****ey snail trails all over the pitch I used to play football with a young lad who was training to be a ref (used to turn up wearing his SFA gear). He was fit as fuck. On the Conroy thing, is this the start of the floodgates? Conroy was treated disgracefully by the SFA during Dougiedougiegate - he ended up admitting that the stuff about threats to his children was lies (wonder who told him to do that?) and that Dougie and Dallas told him to lie. Hopefully, the good ones won't leave and not the old boys network types. What with all that's going on in Scottish fitba' just now, this could be a chance for a proper overhaul
Will be remembered for his two honest mistakes in his only old firm game , not sending off Lafferty , disallowing a perfect Celtic goal
Magic , that was one of the three old firm games in a row that Rangers got honest mistake after honest mistake , Celtic after said no more , decided to take on sfa / referees for fairness . Rangers will be nobodies once all teams play under the same rules
I think Steve Conroy leaving and the talk of more leaving, is all down to the same problem that is bringing Rangers to their knees. I think it could be the now infamous two contract clause. I am not saying for one moment that Scottish hierarchy exercised two contracts, sure I don't think anyone would be that stupid. However it appears a club who I don't intend to name, only to say they come from Govan and some people think they had a contract to pay referees and assistants who were officiating in key games of theirs.