David Turnbull could be in hot water with the SFA after lashing out at Aberdeen’s Dylan McGeouch in Wednesday’s draw.
But Hotline callers have already made their mind up - and reckon the Celtic midfielder should be facing a ban for his Pittodrie petulance.
Willie Collum booked the Hoops star at the time but SFA disciplinary beaks could retrospectively haul him up just as they did with Alfredo Morelos earlier this season.
Alan McPherson, Cullen, kicked up a stink when he said: “As a diehard Aberdeen fan for over 60 years I have endured many dubious refereeing decisions against my team when playing the two Glasgow giants. After the game against Celtic it seems nothing has changed. I have no love for Alfredo Morelos but I’m certain that if he had committed the blatant and petulant kick by Turnbull on McGeouch it would have had Willie Collum reaching for his red card. I hope the compliance officer will take a look at the Turnbull incident but I won’t be holding my breath.”
Chris Lowe, Yoker, said: “In the interests of sporting integrity I take it after twice upgrading a yellow card for Morelos this season then Turnbull will be cited by the compliance officer for his blatant red card offence that was astonishingly only dealt with by means of a booking from our so called top official.”
Celtic fans were giving their team a kicking too.
Gary Burns emailed: “What a dire performance against Aberdeen. I had a close look at the dugout to see if Ronny Delia was there. Celtic were hopeless, clueless, no leader, nothing. Kennedy and his staff must leave now.”
David Bryce, Troon, added: “Every day Kennedy remains in charge damages the club further. If the club sell 30,000 season tickets they are doing well. It is absolutely shocking!”
Hoops fan Stephen Mulhern, Dumbarton, hopes Wednesday’s goal could be a turning point for Leigh Griffiths. He said: “With only meaningless fixtures remaining and Odsonne Edouard’s mind elsewhere, John Kennedy should throw Griffiths a lifeline by starting him in a effort to force himself back into Steve Clarke’s plans. However there are similarities with Kris Commons with a new manager coming in and I think it’s unlikely he will be in the hoops next season.”
On to Rangers who are within touching distance of completing the league season unbeaten.
Alan Lough, Dunbar, said: “Three more games and Rangers will be unbeaten for a season. Hopefully they won't do what Barcelona did before Iniesta left when they were almost at the finish line and Levante hammered them 5-0. I'd love to see Rangers remain unbeaten. And credit to Steven Gerrard for working miracles with the shambles he took on.”
The Euro Super League may have been a flash in the pan but it was still cooking up a storm among callers.
John Scott, Grassmoor , blasted: “Spare us all the self-righteous indignation. We've had to listen to hypocrite after hypocrite talk about the greed of the ESL12. Multi millionaire ex English Premiership players daring to talk about greed.
"The 12 clubs who even thought up an ESL are creaking under the weight of a combined debt of billions. Is it any wonder when the world's top players are paid such obscene amounts of money? They created the greed.”
Finally Killie fan Jim McClean, Rothesay, reckons his team would be barking to let 10-goal Kyle Lafferty leave.
He said: “Tommy Wright should try and keep Kyle Lafferty at Rugby Park, even if it means buying him a bulldog. If Tommy won’t buy him a bulldog I will if it makes him stay! What a difference in defence without Medley - Rossi is streets ahead of him.”
