Levein hits out over St Mirren Freeland complaint
DUNDEE UNITED manager Craig Levein last night accused St Mirren of placing referee Alan Freeland under 'undue pressure' ahead of tonight's Scottish Cup fourth-round replay. 'If it was a less experienced referee, I would make more of it. But, because it is Alan, and he has been in...
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Published in | Daily mail (London, England) |
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Format | Newspaper Article |
Language | English |
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London (UK)
Solo Syndication, a division of Associated Newspapers Ltd
13.02.2008
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Summary: | DUNDEE UNITED manager Craig Levein last night accused St Mirren of placing referee Alan Freeland under 'undue pressure' ahead of tonight's Scottish Cup fourth-round replay. 'If it was a less experienced referee, I would make more of it. But, because it is Alan, and he has been in the game a long time, I'm certain he will be able to handle it. 'Any referee who is refereeing a match live on television is under a certain amount of pressure and this has only increased that. 'I just want to stress that it has got nothing to do with us.' It was put to [Stewart Gilmour] that St Mirren must have felt strongly about Freeland to ask the SFA to remove him from the Tannadice rematch, knowing that he could still be in charge. 'It was or we would not have done that but we have no further comment to make,' was Gilmour's curt response. |
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ISSN: | 0307-7578 |