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I'd say football fans from a good number of Scottish football clubs have taken issue with Willie Collum re some absolutely crappy decisions given against their teams down the years. Indeed various Scottish tabloids chased him down last January, when his refereeing form was dire, and that continued for about 6 weeks. Neilson appeared to try and make it a personal thing against his football club! IMO the Craig Thomson issue is similar but slightly different. He recently awarded a pen to his favourite football club, Hearts, v Dundee. Tell me the last time in the past 10 years that Thomson has awarded a pen to Hibs and we've claimed a few when he has officiated our games and some of those pen claims were stonewallers!!!! Merely a coincidence? And is it a mere coincidence that he has never officiated an Edinburgh derby match since that infamous Scottish Cup final and the thousands of complaints that subsequently landed on the SFA's desk, or deluged it's e-mail system, the following week?