Neil Lennon has added his backing to the demands to reform the appeals process describing the current set up as a nonsense.
Support to overhaul the current procedure which sees referee's review their own decisions was set in motion last week by Players Union boss Fraser Wishart and an open letter from Celtic Chairman John Reid.
SPL Chief Neil Doncaster has also backed the campaign to change forcing Gordon Smith to admit that he too is now in favour of reforming the system.
Asked about the current system on Celtic's Channel 67 service Lennon said: "I think it's a nonsense. You appeal a decision and then the referee, who made the decision, looks at it again agrees that he was right in the first place!
"Surely it has got to be done by an independent body to get a neutral opinion on it. I'm glad that it is being looked at again. I certainly don't agree with the current system.
"Possibly this will take some pressure off the referees, I don't think that there's anything wrong with saying 'look I've got that one wrong or I've made a wrong decision'.
"If someone else comes in and says that three or four people think that was decision was wrong that's fair. We're just looking for a bit of common sense in the game."
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