Another month goes by, another outpouring of hysteria over Scottish football’s Teflon Don Scott Brown.
The Celtic captain can apparently do no wrong in the eyes of the powers that be in Scotland. He’s been cleared of his classless goading of Rangers fans last month, and he wasn’t even cited for his tragic dive against Hibs at the weekend.
And whilst the wide-eyed mania pours out of the Eastend about Scott Brown running this, or running that, they might actually have a point. Or at least in the fact the SFA don’t know how to handle the controversial midfielder.
The problem lies with the consistency of the SFA’s decision making. To put it politely, it is utterly abysmal. Stopping short of donning a tinfoil hat and calling FIFA, something’s not right.
No consistency to SFA decision making
Andy Halliday saw red for raising his fist in the air away to Morton in January 2016. It was a mental decision and one which was upheld by the SFA. There were claims he could’ve incited a riot.
If Andy Halliday nearly incited a riot, Brown’s “get it up ye” was risking a Glaswegian civil war.
Then there’s Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes, who reluctantly accepted he’d let Celtic fans get to him at Hampden in early April. Well, they were aiming a tasteless chant at the former Rangers midfielder.
He was sent to the stand for giving Celtic fans their own “get it up ye”. The same gesture just deemed not worthy of punishment by the SFA panel in Brown’s case.
Whatever the reasons – the moon-howling pressure, the image of Peter Lawwell’s Mr Burns-eque legal team or some deep-rooted masonic conspiracy (wait, what?) – common sense appears to leave the SFA building when it comes to the Celtic captain.
Still, at least he’s never done anything too crazy like, y’know, blow kisses during a match. That’s the kind of thing that gets the powers that be really riled up.
