Celtic’s 3-1 win over Rangers has triggered an almighty fallout.
Martin O’Neill guided the Hoops to the final thanks to goals from Johnny Kenny, Callum McGregor and Callum Osmand,
The win was richly deserved, with Thelo Aasgaard seeing red for the Ibrox side in the first-half after a dangerous high foot.
But as we know, that was far from the only high-profile decision in the match. The SFA’s ‘Key Match Incident’ (or KMI) panel reviewed no less than five incidents from the game in their latest round-up.
It’s verdicts have caused controversy this week, but ex-SFA referee Bobby Madden says that the panel adds ‘zero value’.
Bobby Madden on SFA KMI report on Celtic win vs Rangers
The panel consists of: “three independent panel members with established careers within Scottish football – such as coaches, former players and members of the Scottish football media – one representative from the Scottish FA and one representative from SPFL clubs.”
They vote whether they agree or disagree with the outcome of each decision.
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And for Madden, speaking on BBC Sportsound, referees do not pay attention to the findings of the panel.
He scathingly said: “For me, the panel offers no value. Zero value. The referees don’t give it any consideration.
“It regurgitated that the Trusty decision was accepted as incorrect. By who? By someone from the referee department, who voted 2-1.
“So going by the Rangers statement and going from the 2-1, the SFA are sticking by that they believe it’s not a red card.
“And you’ve got two football ex-professionals who are sitting there saying ‘no, we believe it’s a red card.’ So what value does that add? I don’t know.
“They’ll be more interested in when Willie [Collum] comes out and speaks. But when Willie speaks, he’s criticising decisions in public, and they’ll have been spoken to long in advance to prepare themselves. But it’s not a nice place to be.”
What did the KMI panel say about decisions from Celtic vs Rangers?
The report said that all three panel members were in agreement of the decision to give a penalty against Anthony Ralston for handball, and two of the three were in opposition to the decision not to show a red card to Auston Trusty.
The Ralston verdict is certainly eyebrow-raising – he did everything in his power to stop making contact with his hands.
They all agreed that Derek Cornelius’ challenge on Kenny was not worthy of a red card in the first half.
It also unanimously agreed on Aasgaard’s red card being correct, and an own goal from Nicolas Raskin being rightfully disallowed.
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