The Celtic board is preparing to go to war with the SFA In a Short Time

In defense of their manager Brendan Rodgers, the Celtic board is getting ready to fight the SFA after the Irishman was charged for remarks he made during a terrible day of officiating at Tynecastle.

The hearing is scheduled for a whopping 25 days after Rodgers’ comments following Celtic’s defeat at Tynecastle on Sunday, which saw the Hoops fail to jump back up to first place after Rangers dropped points to Motherwell on Saturday.

Celtic were reduced to ten men early in the first half after a bizarre VAR intervention. On field referee Don Robertson had yellow carded Celtic winger Yang for a high boot. However, John Beaton and VAR decided to get involved and the player was sent off for ‘serious foul play’. The fast track appeal was heard on Tuesday, TWO days after the fixture and was upheld.

CeltsAreHere understands the club’s hierarchy are seething over the way the appeal was dealt with and the misinformation surrounding the contact between Yang and Cochrane that led to the appeal being thrown out. Pictures show in the immediate aftermath of the decision that Cochrane’s face was unharmed and not hurt by the boot of Yang despite the Hearts player falling to the ground clutching his face.

In the same game, another incredible John Beaton VAR intervention saw Celtic concede a ridiculous penalty. Again a clear and obvious error was not made by the infield ref for any sort of intervention to take place.

It led to Rodgers comments, which called into question the competence of the match officials and specifically John Beaton.

After the match, Rodgers said on Netsport: “I never like to comment on officials. It is not something I do. I’ve been stood here long enough but that cost us today. The officiating. From on-field to John Beaton in VAR – that was really, really poor.

“If you put the still on that [red card incident] it looks dangerous but that is not the reality of the move. There is no force there. The ball has popped up. Okay if it is a booking it is a booking. But that was really disappointing to go down to ten men with that.

“But to receive the penalty against us. Wow, that was even worse. You watch the incident again, Tommo [Iwata] jumps and is on his way down. He’s not looking and has been nudged a bit and that pushes his arm out. If that is a penalty you will have penalties every single game and every single week in a match because of that.

“That there is absolutely shocking decision making and I feel really, really disappointed. One for the players and two for the supporters. We are down a man, we get a poor penalty against us and all of a sudden we are chasing the game.”

We understand the charge against Rodgers has been met with severe disdain by the club who are also miffed as to why the hearing will be held so late in March.

The SFA setting up a scenario where they can censure the Celtic manager and put him in the stands for a pivotal show down against Rangers on April 7th. It’s all a bit convenient.