ALEXSANDAR TONEV, the Celtic forward, will likely need to wait for two weeks before discovering whether the Scottish Football Association intends on taking any action against him following claims he made a racist remark towards Aberdeen's Shay Logan.
The Pittodrie club raised the issue following Saturday's match between the sides at Celtic Park and now Vincent Lunny, the SFA's compliance officer, will write to the parties involved, collate their feedback and then weigh up the evidence before deciding whether or not to issue a complaint to the Bulgarian who denies the allegation made against him. Tonev, a recent loan signing from Aston Villa, was making his debut in the match.
The incident, said to have taken place in the second half of the game won 2-1 by Celtic, was mentioned in referee Bobby Madden's report after Logan raised it with him. As the matter does not fall under the SFA's fast-track system, it is expected to take at least a fortnight before a decision is reached. "A complaint has been raised and it is with the compliance officer," confirmed Campbell Ogilvie, the SFA president. "That will go through the system now. The compliance officer and his department are entirely stand-alone from anything we do so we can't comment any further than that."
Ogilvie, meanwhile, remains optimistic that Scotland will be named as one of the hosts of Euro 2020 despite UEFA describing the commercial element of the Scots bid as "inadequate". European football's governing body will announce on Friday which 13 nations will host matches, with the SFA hopeful Hampden will be awarded three group games and one knock-out tie.
"When UEFA's report came out [last week] we wrote to them advising that we will meet the requirements," Ogilvie added. "We've gone from 32 [bidding] countries down to 19, there's an executive committee meeting on Wednesday and then the decision on Friday. You've got to be optimistic, absolutely."
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