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Stewart Regan gives support to Hibernian chairman Rod Petrie
By Rory O'Callaghan

Hibernian chairman Rod Petrie had been criticised for his comments
Scottish Football Association chief executive Stewart Regan has given his full support to Rod Petrie, and dismissed calls for the Hibernian chairman to be stripped of his role at the SFA.

Petrie has been heavily criticised for his controversial comments relating to the pitch invasion that followed Hibernian's last-minute Scottish Cup final victory over Rangers on May 21.

The Easter Road chief described Hibs supporters' actions as merely "over-exuberance", despite reports that a number of Rangers players and staff had been assaulted during the chaos.


Club 1872, a prominent Rangers supporters group, has called for Petrie to resign from his vice-presidency role at the SFA, but Regan backed his under-fire colleague over the incident.  

"Rod is a valued vice-president of the Scottish FA," said Regan at the SFA's annual general meeting in Glasgow on Wednesday.


"He has worked tirelessly for Scottish football over the years and I've got no issue with Rod Petrie as a vice-president."
 

Rangers released a statement the day after the cup final, claiming that Hibernian had yet to send the Ibrox club an apology for the incident at Hampden Park.

However, the Easter Road club have since moved to take action against those involved in the pitch invasion, handing out a number of lifetime bans earlier this week. 

Petrie revealed on Wednesday that there had been "communication" between the two clubs but stopped short of revealing if Rangers had received a full apolog following the pitch invasion "It was wrong of the supporters to come on the pitch and things that happened after that are inexcusable," he said.

"It's also inexcusable for supporters to come on the pitch so we know where we stand.

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This board let them away with the Motherwell incident when they shat on one of our own players they will no doubt do the same with the support on this issue as well.

Regan and Petrie should be sacked for this lets clean out this scum run sfa and start again.

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Corrupt to the fucking core, so nothing changes and as for the inquiry it will be the biggest stich up this millennium and every cunt will jump on board to have a go at us. Then watch wee nicky as she announces that the easily offended act doesn't go far enough and it will have to strengthened and bigger penalties for offenders (what she will be really meaning, for us!). Plod will be out for a bit of pay back for our criticism of them and so on.

This backwater is truly fucked.

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I've said before on one of the other threads that the only way forward with this is for those players/staff who were assaulted (and must obviously have been in fear of their lives?) need to step outside the game, see their Union (?) and their solicitors and take these bastards (SFA and Police Scotland!)  to court for at least Duty of Care. 

 

Never know...might just open up a whole can of worms??

 

 

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