There is a new Scotland manager in place and probably soon a new SFA chief executive.
Any suspension of Lafferty would not take place until next season as the matter must first be referred to the next meeting of the SFA disciplinary committee.
But the referee later admitted that he had simply realised his own error and the row that followed led to Craven's resignation and an investigation by the SFA that reprimanded McDonald.
"We were adamant that we did not want a game in June and wanted a week's preparation for the four games against the Czechs and Lithuania, " said Levein, who praised Smith and SFA president George Peat.
The following day Scotland manager George Burley was asked for his opinion on the SFA president's comments.
Wednesday's match at Hampden is unlikely to be a sell-out and the SFA could make a loss.
In his reply, Mr Salmond said a summit would be held next week "to chart a way forward in Old Firm encounters" and that Celtic, Rangers and the SFA had agreed to attend.
Not that this is necessarily uniformly good, especially if SFA completely transitions to this format.
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However, Mitchell offered an explanation for the SFA security chief's reasoning.
It was followed by the unfortunate sight on that same screen of the SFA chief executive Gordon Smith roaring with laughter.
"We can't comment at all on potential action that will come of this, " said Herbertson, the SFA's head of referees and discipline.
"We all acknowledge that there have been disappointments over the past year and that we have not met our objective to qualify for the World Cup, " SFA chief executive Gordon Smith said on Tuesday.
The West of Scotland MSP has introduced a motion in the Scottish Parliament welcoming the continued opposition by the SFA to a single UK football team for the Olympics.
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Peat said the SFA was determined to help eradicate offensive chanting from SPL grounds.
The report also suggests the executive and SFA meet with editors and sports editors to discuss coverage of sectarianism.
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Shadow Sport Minister Michael Matheson MSP has called on the SFA to replace him with a manager who rejuvenate the national side.
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Now, following the manager's call for unified support of the team, the SFA has released this statement just hours before Scotland take on Macedonia.
Speaking shortly before the SFA's announcement, Novo had refused to comment on the Pittodrie incident.
However, the SFA say they have no knowledge of Larsson signing up for such a course.
And this week SFA president George Peat said he felt the current criteria for selection should remain.
Having been approached by the SFA, McLeish agreed to chair the Scottish Football Review committee in February 2009.
McBeth will end his four-year spell as SFA president at the body's annual general meeting in Glasgow on Friday.
"If Paul Hegarty decides to take the job, we at the SFA would be very pleased to see him on board, " said Smith.
And regionalisation of the leagues below was a feature of the recent SFA-commissioned report into the professional game by former First Minister Henry McLeish.
Peat has reopened the affair at the team hotel after SFA chief executive Gordon Smith and manager George Burley had declared the matter closed.
"We've avoided playing in June, which has always been difficult for us, " Levein told BBC Scotland after the meeting he attended with SFA chief executive Gordon Smith and representatives from Scotland's Group I rivals.
There could be player suspensions for Smith to deal with as well after Madjid Bougherra and El Hadji Diouf were ordered to appear before the SFA's disciplinary committee following their actions in the same Old Firm derby.
Scotland manager George Burley refused to rule out the option of picking Novo, while SFA president George Peat was opposed to any change to the current criteria for selection.
The SFA has had the report since March and its findings have been discussed at board level.
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