They did. And make them look like a bunch of incompetent pricks while they were at it (although tbh we all knew that anyway).
If it had all just ended with them being on the bench for the Iceland game that would have been great but with the hand gestures etc it all just completely spiraled out of control, as soon as the media got their claws into it that was it.
The two things that have bothered me most about it was the SFA and their complete incapability of making any sort of decision and sticking to it and the two players being made as scapegoats. There were 6 players involved that night, not 2. Yeah so some of them went to bed early, fucking whatever. Scott Brown left barely 20 minutes before Allan and Barry got caught and yet he gets off with it. The week after that the same player is almost kicked off a train from Newcastle after acting like a complete knob and trying to start shit with a bunch of Rangers fans. Nothing happens. No, fuck that. This whole situation has highlighted the sheer imbalance that their is in this country in regards to the perception of the Old Firm and it's got to stop. (Sorry OT rant is OT but I'm fucked off!).
Anyway, back to what you said. Damn straight it would have been better than what they did. Punishment didn't fit the crime in the slightest. The backtracking of statements, the "he said" "he said" situation, the sheer pomposity of Gordon Smith all made everything one thousand times worse than it needed to be. It turned into a fucking witch hunt and there was no need to take the players livelihoods away from them.
Thank you so much for replying, I was just so curious to know what everyone outside of Scotland thought about what was going on. ♥
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Date: 2009-04-16 11:26 am (UTC)If it had all just ended with them being on the bench for the Iceland game that would have been great but with the hand gestures etc it all just completely spiraled out of control, as soon as the media got their claws into it that was it.
The two things that have bothered me most about it was the SFA and their complete incapability of making any sort of decision and sticking to it and the two players being made as scapegoats. There were 6 players involved that night, not 2. Yeah so some of them went to bed early, fucking whatever. Scott Brown left barely 20 minutes before Allan and Barry got caught and yet he gets off with it. The week after that the same player is almost kicked off a train from Newcastle after acting like a complete knob and trying to start shit with a bunch of Rangers fans. Nothing happens. No, fuck that. This whole situation has highlighted the sheer imbalance that their is in this country in regards to the perception of the Old Firm and it's got to stop. (Sorry OT rant is OT but I'm fucked off!).
Anyway, back to what you said. Damn straight it would have been better than what they did. Punishment didn't fit the crime in the slightest. The backtracking of statements, the "he said" "he said" situation, the sheer pomposity of Gordon Smith all made everything one thousand times worse than it needed to be. It turned into a fucking witch hunt and there was no need to take the players livelihoods away from them.
Thank you so much for replying, I was just so curious to know what everyone outside of Scotland thought about what was going on. ♥