Hibs boss Lee Johnson curses 'footballing Gods' after players forced to take cold showers in training ground chaos

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Hibernian managing director Lee Johnson has hit out at the Scottish Football game Clan subsequently his club fielded a suspended player during their depict confronting Morton.

Hibs were penalised by the Scottish Professional Football League with a three-0 defeat later on including Rocky Bushiri in their starting line-up despite the Belgian defender being the subject field of an automatic 1-match ban later on picking upwardly bookings in each of their previous 2 games.

The punishment proved academic as Hibs would accept gone out of the competition anyhow but the state of affairs was an embarrassment to the guild on the back of a disappointing first to Johnson's reign on the park.

The SFA sends a list of suspensions to clubs each week but Johnson claimed there should accept been extra warning after Bushiri picked up an firsthand suspension on the Sunday ahead of the midweek game.

Bushiri and Hibs now face an SFA disciplinary hearing on Baronial xi afterward breaching the interruption.

After a ane-0 friendly win over Norwich, Johnson said: "To be fair, I think the Scottish FA take got to accept to look at themselves, to be honest with yous.

"Obviously I have come upwardly from England and I am looking at no quaternary officials in games. The extranet system should have a flagging system. It wasn't just the states that got done by that, it was three or four clubs.

"In England at that place's an extranet system that, if there is a pause pending, in that location's a flag that comes up and everybody gets notified in the football game club. Information technology's not difficult to practice that, it's but admin."

The former Barnsley, Bristol City and Sunderland director added: "At the aforementioned fourth dimension nosotros've got to take responsibility, first on a football level, and then on an assistants level.

"But there'southward things up here that I'1000 seeing that I am thinking: 'Come one, we can sharpen upward'.

"This is the top league in a peak country, total of passion, full of keen footballers, full of history, and we need to acuminate up."

A get-go-one-half strike from Elias Melkersen handed Hibs victory confronting the Canaries with Johnson fielding a largely youthful side in the second period.

Goalkeeper David Marshall missed the game with a sickness bug while Chris Cadden saturday out with a thigh injury which volition be scanned. Aiden McGeady went off early with a small knee injury.