SFA tipped to sanction Vaclav Cerny for Celtic Park incident

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·21 March 2025

SFA tipped to sanction Vaclav Cerny for Celtic Park incident

The Glasgow Derby is well and truly behind us now. Celtic have lost and the dust has settled on that result. The Hoops need to be better in the future but there is no point dwell on how that game turned out. They must look forward. But at the same time, a lot of fans are waiting for clarification on some of the incidents that took place at Parkhead on that day.

The one atop that list has to be the one involving Vaclav Cerny. After the Rangers' late winner at Parkhead, the winger appeared to spray water from his bottle at Celtic fans.

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Unsurprisingly, that became a topic of discussion coming out of the game and the fans were not happy with the incident. Now, it remains to be seen what action the SFA will take.

As reported by 67 Hail Hail, former referee Steve Conroy said while speaking on SM Media’s The Ref’s View podcast:

"You wonder what would be the sanction – something will happen to him, obviously.“He will get some sort of sanction, but that wasn’t the refereeing team’s calls.“I doubt very much that (fourth official) Don (Robertson) was looking over there, anyway. When the goal is scored the first instinct is that all the team is going to be checking that everything is alright on the pitch.“Once that is okay, then you can deal with the dugouts. So, it was nothing to do with us (referees), absolutely nothing.“But the SFA will have to do something, whatever that is."

SFA tipped to sanction Vaclav Cerny for Celtic Park incident

Of course, there has been a lot of guesswork going on about what kind of sanction Cerny could face as a result of his actions. There have been suggestions that he could be banned for as many as eight games.

It is worth remembering that Cerny is on loan at Rangers at the moment, from Bundesliga club Wolfsburg. So, if he is handed an eight-game ban, then we might never see him play for the Ibrox domestically again, unless they find a way to sign him on a permanent basis in the future.

Celtic need to be worried about what happened on the pitch on that day though. It was their second-straight defeat in the Glasgow Derby. And not just that, they have been giving away goals far too easily against the Rangers as well, having conceded nine over their previous three meetings. Not good enough. Nowhere near.