I think too much focus on this incident has been placed on the tug on Devlin's shirt before Devlin tugged Brophie's.
As I see it, the red was given because the ref deemed Devlin to be the last man.
The concern that the decision was upheld by the comittee, based on this part of the incident alone rather than the "was Shay Logan actually the last man" part is worrying.
The fact that we can see Logan in the picture and as a result could actually be deemed to be the last man, casts the decision of the ever incompetent egotistical Thomson into a grey area and would then put doubt on the decision to award a red card to Devlin.
The committee in my opinion failed to agree on the main issue, and given that a "3 for 3" agreement is required to overturn the referees verdict, it may be that we are in for a long hard season, because there will be plenty more to come.
For what it's worth, I do think that match officials have a hard job these days and at times are not all singing off the same hymn sheet due to all not being fully conversant with the letter of the law...........which is a sad indictment of the Scottish game and our lawyers and bankers officials.
Every club asks for a fair crack of the whip, but inconsistent decision making makes that unlikely.
As for the setup favouring the 2 favourite Glasgow clubs, it has always been thus.
No one can tell me that a referee or linesman ( I'm old school), isn't going to be influenced by 40 or 50 thousand Weegies ( or Irish if you prefer) calling for a penalty.
in my opinion, the beeks at the SFA are similarly influenced by the way too powerful voices at those two clubs, running scared of making decisions against them.
The rest of the other clubs are easy targets therefore.
We were warned by one of the esteemed members of the buyable SFA board that "football armageddon is coming".
This is just the start folks and the two colours that will be left standing are green and blue unless we do something now.