SFA likely to review Sone Aluko penalty award in Rangers win

[GovanAllan 0]

You can only tell for sure if a player has dived,ie; no contact,if there was contact,which in this case there was,then how can you tell he dived?

 

Because he was told he dived.

 

See above post.

[craig 5,199]

I'd like to know what this Lunny charachter saw in the video and still pics that convinced him to say there wasn't contact made so he dived?.

 

More important than that to me Ian is what ae Lunny's credentials for making such a decision.

 

By that, what I mean is does Lunny have a football playing background ? I dont mind if it was even just social football but you have to have walked in a player's shoes to know how easy it is to fall when at full speed under even the slightest touch.

 

When I say i dont mind if it is even social football I am being a tad facetious - this "Compliance Officer" should be a former pro in my opinion.

[GovanAllan 0]

I'd like to know what this Lunny charachter saw in the video and still pics that convinced him to say there wasn't contact made so he dived?.

 

Video was produced by BBC SPORT SCOTLAND, Hardie has been airbrushed out of the clip.

 

Simples. :smile:

[ian1964 10,429]

So,the Dunfermline manager is up on a charge for saying the referee got it wrong,and now this chunt Lunny says Aluko dived,so he is agreeing with the Dunfermline manager that the ref got it wrong?

[GovanAllan 0]

More important than that to me Ian is what ae Lunny's credentials for making such a decision.

 

By that, what I mean is does Lunny have a football playing background ? I dont mind if it was even just social football but you have to have walked in a player's shoes to know how easy it is to fall when at full speed under even the slightest touch.

 

When I say i dont mind if it is even social football I am being a tad facetious - this "Compliance Officer" should be a former pro in my opinion.

 

He's Ra Seltic minded passed the interview with flying colours.

 

The Interview

Liewell: can you see flying pigs out the window.

 

Lunny: do you want me to see flying pigs.

 

Liewell: you'll do for me son.

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PARS CHAIRMAN DEFENDS ALUKO AND SLAMS PUNISHMENT PROCEDURE

EMBATTLED Rangers winger Sone Aluko has found an unlikely ally with Dunfermline chairman John Yorkston last night declaring the player should not be hit with a potential two-game ban.

New Ibrox recruit Aluko could be hauled before the SFA over the dive row that overshadowed the SPL leader's 2-1 win over the Pars on Saturday.

 

And the 22-year-old could be offered a two-match suspension from Hampden Compliance Officer Vincent Lunny if the lawyer decides there is enough television evidence to take action when he reviews it today.

 

Aluko fell to the ground in the box even though footage shows there did not appear to be any contract between the midfielder and Martin Hardie.

 

Referee Steve Conroy pointed to the spot and Nikica Jelavic converted what proved to be the match-winning goal in the 2-1 victory.

Dunfermline manager Jim McIntyre insisted Aluko dived and branded the decision 'a disgrace'.

 

Yorkston however insists Aluko should not be handed a stiffer punishment to compensate for what he perceives to be a costly mistake by Conroy.

 

He said: "I think anyone that watched the incident on television is of the same opinion of the manager. We are obviously aggrieved just now but the bottom line is that the referee made the call.

 

"I do not see what this SFA panel thing is going to do, give the boy two games? If the referee had got it right all he would have got was a yellow card.If the boy is found guilty, all he should be given is a yellow card and not a two-game ban.

 

 

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"If the player has committed an offence, he should not get a heavier penalty because the referee missed it.I just think the punishment procedure is incorrect. Nobody should get done more because of a referee's mistake.

 

"The bottom line is that if the referee had seen it as a dive, the player would have been booked so how could you change it to a two-game ban because the referee missed it."

 

Yorkston knows these kind of decisions could come back to haunt his club at the end of the season, especially with the Pars just one point clear of basement side Aberdeen adding : "Whatever the SFA come up with, it's not going to benefit Dunfermline and it's not going to make it right. We have lost the points full stop. We can't chalk off the penalty and make it 1-1. Everyone says these things even themselves out but we have a lot of evening up to do."

 

 

 

 

The first article I have read not blaming Aluko but the ref. I quite agree.

[ian1964 10,429]

More important than that to me Ian is what ae Lunny's credentials for making such a decision.

 

By that, what I mean is does Lunny have a football playing background ? I dont mind if it was even just social football but you have to have walked in a player's shoes to know how easy it is to fall when at full speed under even the slightest touch.

 

When I say i dont mind if it is even social football I am being a tad facetious - this "Compliance Officer" should be a former pro in my opinion.

 

Well Roughy & DJ on RR says he is a cheat so that will be that then.

[Zappa 0]

Well Roughy & DJ on RR says he is a cheat so that will be that then.

 

Just what you'd expect from those clowns!

[ian1964 10,429]

Just what you'd expect from those clowns!

 

Unfortunately from now on,regardless of the appeal,he is now branded a cheat and will have to have thick skin from now on

[Zappa 0]

Unfortunately from now on,regardless of the appeal,he is now branded a cheat and will have to have thick skin from now on

 

He was brought up in Birmingham for most of his childhood, so I'm sure he'll have been called worse than a cheat and he'll have thicker skin than most of our players, especially Kirk - am a hardman - Broadfoot.