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In Thomson's case this problem has been going on for years and surely the SFA observation/scrutiny system should've 'kicked in' and dealt with such a consistently poor referee!!!!! Players who play badly are generally dropped by their manager. I see know difference re a badly performing referee in a proactive set up where there are other potentially decent refs 'waiting in the wings' to take over while the replaced poor referee is effectively 'given a rest' as clearly practised by the English FA. Thomson's last Euro footie match, Dynamo Kiev v Besiktas, was nothing short of an absolute disgrace by an incompetently poor Scottish ref who even made the news in Euro footie media circles for all the wrong reasons!! That's when an embarrassed SFA should have made the appropriate move to relegate and try to gradually rehabilitate this ref under strict observation. The SFA is as culpable as the offending referee due to a lack of proactive management of such issues and effectively 'burying it's head in the sand' rather than accepting there is a prob and discreetly dealing with it in an appropriate fashion.