Topic Originator: wee eck
Date: Thu 4 Dec 07:42
From the Courier -
`Neil Lennon will discover his disciplinary fate at a meeting with the SFA this morning. The Dunfermline boss is facing a possible touchline ban after being served with a notice of complaint by the governing body last month.
Lennon is accused of breaching the SFA’s rules following his comments criticising referee Duncan Nicolson and his assistants in the 3-2 defeat to Ross County on October 25.The Pars manager was deeply scathing of the whistler’s display, saying he was ‘out of his depth’ and ‘incompetent’. Lennon felt Nicolson’s decisions or failure to act led to two of County’s goals, whilst also missing a potential red card for home defender Declan Gallagher. In addition, the Northern Irishman claimed one of Nicolson’s assistants had made a ‘derogatory comment’ to one of the Dunfermline backroom team during the match.
His remarks are alleged to have contravened rule 72, which says that no-one ‘under the jurisdiction of the Scottish FA’ can ‘criticise the decision(s) and/or performance(s) of any or all match official(s) in such a way as to indicate bias or incompetence on the part of such match official. or make remarks about such match official(s) which impinge on his character’.
The scale of sanctions set out in the 2025/26 judicial panel protocol recommend a four-match suspension for a lower-end offence, rising to an eight-game ban at the top end. Lennon has already been in trouble with the SFA this season, sitting out the recent 1-0 win over Morton after picking up three yellow cards.`
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