Hearts manager spoken to 'like a two-year-old'

This game was barely a few minutes old when Jim Jefferies had lodged an official complaint about referee Willie Collum to SPL delegate, John Connolly.

Jefferies, convinced that Celtic's opening goal should not have stood because of offside and utterly certain that his team were denied a penalty, went to Collum in the aftermath and told the official that he should apologise for the injustice he perpetrated on his team. "The first goal was offside," Jefferies said, with a thinly concealed rage. "I was standing a yard away from Daryl Murphy when he got the ball. It was clearly offside. I said to Willie Collum (who had earlier sent Jefferies to the stand for protesting) that I was due an apology and I got spoken to like a two-year-old kid. I've reported it to the SPL delegate. He shouldn't be talking to anybody like that."

Jefferies wasn't finished lambasting the officials. "At 2-0, we had a golden chance to get a goal back when David Templeton was held back (by Emilio Izaguirre in the Celtic penalty area). The word we're getting is that the fourth official said the linesman thought it was a penalty. The fourth official said it to Billy Brown (Jefferies' assistant).

"At the start of the season, I was at a meeting with Hugh Dallas where he tells you the changes and it was said that if the fourth official sees something on the field then he's got the licence to tell the referee."