Motherwell v Celtic 13/05/2026

[MJC]

15 minutes ago, dennyc said:

And McInnes now cited for his comments regarding the penalty. Clear pattern emerging here. Dissention in the ranks cannot be tolerated.

Clear vibes of “move on, move on, nothing to see here! But if you speak out about this we’re coming down on you” right here.

[Happy Dosser]

18 minutes ago, dennyc said:

And McInnes now cited for his comments regarding the penalty. Clear pattern emerging here. Dissention in the ranks cannot be tolerated.

It's not clear yet  whether this is an ill-judged  panic measure by the SFA or their usual vindictiveness when challenged. Either way the clubs, as constituent members of the association, should be instituting a complete overhaul of the refereeing system (including VAR) in Scotland to ensure its proper transparency and accountability. Why is the kowtowing to Celtic so blatant when they are only one club?

Unfortunately, the clubs seem feeble and self-serving generally and reluctant to combine  to stand up for themselves, so any reform is unlikely to happen and the Scottish game will descend in to further  farce and loss of credibilty in the "authorities".

[Orinoco]

Full investigation of the SFA otherwise known as Celtic Football Association by a third party is required.

Will the Celtic players who were pictured mocking our Sam with hands on their head be cited. Will ONeil be cited for having private conversations with Collum and complaining about referee decisions. 

Its time our club, Hearts and others called out the influence that Celtic have on our game. Its beyond a joke. We need to fight our right for freedom of speach and consistancey of these punishments. There has been many instances throughtout season of players, management questioning decisions. Nothing was done then, so why now? Time our lawyers got involved.

The club that has caused the biggest problems getting off practically scot free whilst other clubs are hammered. 

Time clubs grew a backbone!

Watt will get a hefty suspension for this to deflect and made an example of.  Its what the CFA do...

 

 

 

[A Well Fan]

I don't have a problem with the SFA deciding to do this, but only on the basis that they'll go back through every Celtic press conference, pre and post match interviews, general interviews, tweets and website stories or match reports.

Otherwise it's just another pathetic show of crawling and saying to Celtic "like us, like us please."

I'll even start them off, Callum McGregor on Trusty's red card against Hibs: "To send him off for that, we may as well all go up the road and stop playing football if that's going to be a red card every single week." Is the tweet by Watt any worse than that?

[Happy Dosser]

9 hours ago, A Well Fan said:

I don't have a problem with the SFA deciding to do this, but only on the basis that they'll go back through every Celtic press conference, pre and post match interviews, general interviews, tweets and website stories or match reports.

Otherwise it's just another pathetic show of crawling and saying to Celtic "like us, like us please."

I'll even start them off, Callum McGregor on Trusty's red card against Hibs: "To send him off for that, we may as well all go up the road and stop playing football if that's going to be a red card every single week." Is the tweet by Watt any worse than that?

That's an excellent example but the SFA censuring The Untouchable McGregor? It's never going to happen, which is the problem in a nutshell.

[rinkydink]

One for the Society to find its voice on I think. 

[Spiderpig]

13 hours ago, Happy Dosser said:

 

Unfortunately, the clubs seem feeble and self-serving generally and reluctant to combine  to stand up for themselves, so any reform is unlikely to happen and the Scottish game will descend in to further  farce and loss of credibilty in the "authorities".

Therein lies the problem the other 10 Premiership clubs only look to  their own self interests and are not going to rock the boat to address the issues.

The premiership has the 11-1 voting criteria required before any changes can be made, which effectively means the ugly sisters can determine what happens and what does not to suit themselves.

All of the other 30 clubs outwith the premiership dont really care what goes on as they dont have to use VAR, never play the uglies, never have to deal with the stadium damage etc, so they dont get involved

Until the premiership clubs, mainstream media, Scottish Government, police Scotland etc start calling out these issues, nothing will ever change.

The SFA / SPFL blazers will continue as the cozy wee self interested clique it is, travelling the world on their expense accounts desperately trying to get their big teams to like them.

 

[parko66]

Motherwell star Elliot Watt given huge BAN as SFA punish Fir Park club over Celtic penalty controversy

[Mccus28]

3 minutes ago, parko66 said:

Motherwell star Elliot Watt given huge BAN as SFA punish Fir Park club over Celtic penalty controversy

Its a wild ban, actually outrageous if you think about, luckily he will probably be serving it as someone elses player

[Spiderpig]

4 minutes ago, Mccus28 said:

Its a wild ban, actually outrageous if you think about, luckily he will probably be serving it as someone elses player

Its a feckin embarassment for Scottish football, it would never happen with any of the ugly sisters players, the SFA are a disgrace, but the other clubs wont care so nothing will change.

[MJC]

7 minutes ago, Mccus28 said:

Its a wild ban, actually outrageous if you think about, luckily he will probably be serving it as someone elses player

He will be but that’s not the point here. The bigger picture is that Scottish football is run for the benefit of Celtic and Celtic alone and anyone who speaks up about it will be censored.

Its absolutely scandalous the hold that club have over everyone in the game up here.

[wellfan]

18 minutes ago, parko66 said:

Motherwell star Elliot Watt given huge BAN as SFA punish Fir Park club over Celtic penalty controversy

Utterly ridiculous.

Presumably we'll now see almost every club, player and manager punished for what they say and do after matches. Unless, of course, they happen to be at Celtic.

[MJC]

Regardless of whether Watt leaves or not we as a club should be appealing this or at least stating an intention to appeal it. While Watt is still our player we should be standing up for him otherwise it will keep happening with other players or employees who speak out and upset the apple cart around Celtic and the way they’ve got everyone dancing to their tune. Start by citing that the then Celtic manager got a lesser ban for comments about the same official in March 2024 and that that ban was subsequently reduced on appeal.

[grizzlyg]

Utter disgrace 

[weeyin]

45 minutes ago, MJC said:

He will be but that’s not the point here. The bigger picture is that Scottish football is run for the benefit of Celtic and Celtic alone and anyone who speaks up about it will be censored.

Almost right, except it's run for the benefit of the Old Firm, not just Celtic. 

[MJC]

12 minutes ago, weeyin said:

Almost right, except it's run for the benefit of the Old Firm, not just Celtic. 

Nope.

That outlook is part of the problem and part of the reason why Celtic get everything their own way.

[twistandshout1983]

Absolutely shocking

Watt was just saying what everybody else was thinking , and still is 

[Spiderpig]

49 minutes ago, MJC said:

Regardless of whether Watt leaves or not we as a club should be appealing this or at least stating an intention to appeal it. While Watt is still our player we should be standing up for him otherwise it will keep happening with other players or employees who speak out and upset the apple cart around Celtic and the way they’ve got everyone dancing to their tune. Start by citing that the then Celtic manager got a lesser ban for comments about the same official in March 2024 and that that ban was subsequently reduced on appeal.

A spirited defence of your big club as usual, but both of them are two cheeks of the same arse, ie equally culpable of everything that is wrong with scottish football.

[MJC]

1 minute ago, Spiderpig said:

A spirited defence of your big club as usual, but both of them are two cheeks of the same arse, ie equally culpable of everything that is wrong with scottish football.

Another load of word salad and tired old patter from you as usual, but I prefer to actually look at things as they are.

Rangers clearly have more clout than we do and indeed every other club outwith Celtic, but they are not on the same level as Celtic in terms of control, manipulation and running the game through bullying tactics. Certainly not today, in 2026.

Derek McInnes has also been citied for comments he made about the very same incident that Elliot Watt has been “put in line” for speaking about. He made those comments on the night of the game whilst still the Hearts manager. I believe his hearing is next week. Now, if what you and the above poster are saying is true then the authorities will surely go easier on him now that he is Rangers manager? Yeah? So, if McInnes gets a touchline ban of anything similar or more than what Watt has been banned for then that would very much fly in the face of the idea that “both of them are equally culpable” and such like?

I will watch with interest on this one.

[MJC]

Club have now released a statement about this saying they are extremely disappointed at the outcome of this and have asked for written reasons to explain it. Also that they will “liaise with solicitors on any next step”.

I’m glad to hear it and also pleased to see a swift response.

[Motherwell Daft]

2 hours ago, parko66 said:

Motherwell star Elliot Watt given huge BAN as SFA punish Fir Park club over Celtic penalty controversy

Utterly ridiculous by the clearly corrupt old firm centric authorities for both banning a player for 4 games for “hurty words” and fine Well £5k, yet the team who’s supporters invade pitches and manager say similar “hurty words” get a slap on the wrist.

Point of order to be noted is that the old firm authorities feel it is a lesser offence for hordes of your fans to invade multiple pitches, cause hundreds of thousands of pounds of damage to other teams stadiums, sweep, sweep nothing to see here, move along…

I sincerely hope the club fight this scandalous result fully.

This makes a further mockery of Scottish football across the world, first of all none of our clearly crap referees couldnt even get a place in what was one of the worst refereed World Cups in history and would I’m sure have fitted in wonderfully given the shocking and corrupted standard in show.

[Orinoco]

Shocker, but hardly suprising as our club seems to be an easy target in the eyes of the SFA.

How can our club be fined for stating the world reaction and that we should move on?

The players union or whatever they are called need to get involved in this nonsense and defend their player.  

Football in this country is finished if spoken truths are more severly punished than reckless and dangerous tackles.

All clubs officials and players should refuse all interactions with media.

Will John McGinn get fined for his comnents?

 

[MJC]

Any comments made by anyone about refereeing decisions should be being highlighted by the club in regards to this. It doesn’t matter if it’s John McGinn or Derek McInnes or whoever. If someone else has made similar comments about match officials and isn’t hit with the same punishment as our player then we need to be asking serious questions in a very loud voice. 

[Stuwell2]

Apparently Gary Lineker was about to make a comeback with Inverourie grouse beater afc but the SFA said he’d get 4 match ban as well so the deals off

[0Neils40yarder]

2 hours ago, wellfan said:

Utterly ridiculous.

Presumably we'll now see almost every club, player and manager punished for what they say and do after matches. Unless, of course, they happen to be at Celtic.

 

1 hour ago, MJC said:

Nope.

That outlook is part of the problem and part of the reason why Celtic get everything their own way.

Let's see how McInnes gets treated