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Yep! A good summary and there were far too many iffy 'incidents' to even attempt to defend Madden, who, like other ref culprits, walks away unchallenged again! The accountability of the SFA was mentioned in another thread and I've previously commented that there is a 'mechanism' in place to deal with unacceptable performances by SFA referees - the observer system! I regard it's operation to be in disrepute and I would love to be offered a job to impartially score professional football referees in Scotland and conduct subsequent private performance interviews to glean their explanations re observed 'misdemeanours' - that would be fun!! An effective demotion mechanism appears to be non-existent up here!
PS: IMO Celtic are better equipped to win certain matches 'in spite of partial or incompetent referees' but other Scottish footie clubs just have to 'take it on the chin' as I've observed many times in years gone by.