SEE YOU IN THE TUNNEL
Tansey’s raging with Dikamona over SFA ban
ST MIRREN midfielder Greg Tansey has labelled Hearts star Clevid Dikamona “vindictive” after serving a retrospective two-match ban for a challenge on the French stopper.
And Tansey insists he can’t wait to confront Dikamona in the tunnel the next time the sides meet.
The Englishman was initially shown a yellow card for a lunge on Dikamona but the Hearts player took to Twitter to hit out at the challenge and tagged the SFA account to make his point.
That sparked fury from St Mirren fans as well as former Buddies star John McGinn who branded him a “grass”.
Tansey was then banned for two matches after an SFA fast track tribunal upgraded his booking to a red card. The 30-year-old denied going in to hurt Dikamona intentionally and reckons the tweet made him out to be a coward.
Tansey said: “If you slow anything down, if you make any tackle into a still, it can look bad.
“If you watch it at normal speed, there is no way I am going for that sort of challenge. I have touched the ball before I’ve touched him. There is no way I’ve gone to do him – I would never try to injure an opponent.
“He is basically calling me a coward. I spoke to him after the game and he was fine.
“I shook his hand and I told him I hoped he was OK. He said he was fine.
“The next thing I see he is tweeting the SFA. He should just tweet me. It is almost a bit vindictive – he is trying to get me done.
“If he had a problem he should have said to me after the game and we would have sorted it out. I would have apologised and said there was no malice in it.
“I will speak to him. I will see him in the tunnel. I wouldn’t want it to get out of hand in the tunnel and I wouldn’t want to carry anger into the game.
“But I will definitely address this with him. I had no malice to hurt the guy – none at all.
“I was dumbfounded when the gaffer told me the SFA had hit me with a two-game ban.”
Tansey will return from his ban today as Oran Kearney’s men travel to McDiarmid Park.
St Johnstone cannot be sucked into a relegation battle with the Buddies and are four points off the top six with four games to go before the split. But Tansey insists the Perth outfit still have something to play for.
He said: “If I was one of the St Johnstone players, you would always want the win bonus.”