New Rangers manager Derek McInnes is facing a possible touchline ban after being cited for calling the decision to award Celtic a late penalty at Motherwell “disgusting”.<\/p>\n
The Scottish FA has issued a notice of complaint over the comments made at the end of last season when McInnes was in charge of Hearts.<\/p>\n
Motherwell and their midfielder Elliott Watt also face sanction from the governing body over social media posts about a stoppage-time spot-kick given for handball that was converted by Kelechi Iheanacho.<\/p>\n
Celtic’s 2-1 victory at Fir Park kept them one point behind Hearts, who they beat to the title a few days later in a final-day decider.<\/p>\n
All three parties will now face disciplinary hearings on 16 July.<\/p>\n
Speaking to Sky Sports after a win against Falkirk at Tynecastle, McInnes said: “When you heard Celtic got a 96th minute penalty that was going to VAR and they were checking it, you just assume what’s happened is they get the penalty.<\/p>\n
“Having seen it again, it’s disgusting. It is.<\/p>\n
“I don’t think it’s a penalty kick.<\/p>\n
“But we’re up against it. We’re up against everybody.”<\/p>\n
A post from Motherwell on X read: “As the world of football mocks our game, we simply have to draw a line in the sand and shift the focus”, while Watt described the penalty award as “the worst VAR decision in history”.<\/p>\n
Following the late drama at Fir Park, referee John Beaton’s contact details were posted online, with police keeping his home under surveillance. A teenager was then charged “in connection with a data protection offence”.<\/p>\n
The SFA compliance officer has issued the complaints under disciplinary rule 72 stating that: ‘No recognised football body, club, official, team official or other member of team staff, player or other person under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA, shall in an interview, a ‘blog’ on the internet, on a social networking or micro-blogging site, or in any other manner calculated or likely to lead to publicity (i) criticise the decision(s) and\/or performance(s) of any or all match official(s) in such a way as to indicate bias or incompetence on the part of such match official; or (ii) make remarks about such match official(s) which impinge on his character.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Rangers manager Derek McInnes is facing a possible touchline ban after being cited for calling the decision…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":720038,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-720037","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720037","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=720037"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/720037\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/720038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=720037"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=720037"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=720037"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}