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da aviator aposta： The next round of SPFL matches is already upon us, but the debate about incidents in last Sunday’s Old Firm is still raging on.
Scott Brown, Steven Gerrard and Ryan Kent are all facing punishment for their roles in last Sunday’s controversy, per BBC.
Kent has failed to overturn a two-game ban for his punch directed at Brown, and Gerrard has accepted a one-game touchline ban for his comments about referee Bobby Madden.
Brown meanwhile is yet to discover his fate, and both clubs are also being charged for failing to control their players.
And Barry Ferguson, who spent four years at Ibrox during his playing days, thinks the SFA have lost their minds.
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What did he say?
“Every now and then the people supposed to be running our game outdo themselves and even though we should all be used to it by now I still end up shaking my head in disbelief,” the ex-Ger wrote in a column for The Daily Record.
“That was certainly the case yesterday when the news came through that just about everyone who was at Parkhead for the Old Firm on Sunday will now be dragged up to Hampden’s sixth floor to have their handbags taken off them.
“That’s what we saw at the end of the derby – absolute handbags – and it’s hard to believe the compliance officer has now cited Celtic and Rangers with failing to keep their players under control because of it. Dearie me.”
After agreeing that both Kent and Morelos deserve to be punished for their actions, Ferguson added one last dig: “But why on earth are the SFA still going over the videos four days later trying to find something else to get their knickers in a twist about?
“I’ve been out there in the heat of the battle so I know how high the emotions run, especially at the end of a game like that one.
“So you would like to think the authorities would show a little bit of common sense instead of making another mountain out of a molehill.”
Common sense
Ferguson has got his analysis absolutely correct here. While Kent and Morelos are worthy of their bans, spending an entire week looking for any stick to beat both clubs with is a bit ridiculous on the part of the SFA.
Rangers fans already despise the organisation for the continued harsh treatment of Morelos and for what they perceive to be bias towards their arch-rivals, and while the SFA aren’t showing bias by flagging up both clubs for what Ferguson simply called “handbags”, they are revealing their major flaw – they don’t understand the passion of the game.
Quite simply, it’s all too easy to lack “common sense”, as Ferguson put it, and a feel for the game when you’re sat in an ivory tower judging every tiny incident. The disconnect between the SFA and the players and fans in the grounds is a major concern for Scottish football as a whole, and Ferguson full well knows it.