Neil Lennon has revealed encouragement at his Scottish Football Association meeting

Celtic boss Neil Lennon has revealed he was encouraged by Monday's meeting with the Scottish Football Association's compliance officer, Vincent Lunny.

Top Scottish referee Craig Thomson believes there remains a healthy respect between officials and managers, but admits he would like to turn the tables on critical bosses and see them taking over the whistle. Category One referee Thomson, along with Bobby Madden, was at Hampden on Tuesday to undertake their FIFA referee medicals at the Sports Medicine Centre and afterwards he spoke, with a degree of humour, about his idea which he believes would help mutual understanding. "I would love managers and coaches to referee a match, just to see what it is like," Thomson told Press Association Sport. "Yes, they do it at training but maybe just to referee a match to see how difficult some of the decisions are and I would love to go and watch them. "And maybe for us to go more into their training grounds, even to help referee training games as well, that is an opportunity to build up relationships. "The more and more contact with each other, outwith the matches, I think is a benefit. "I would like to think we have a good relationship with the managers, we get a lot of respect from them which is what we are really looking for. "They are not going to agree with every decision and it would be foolhardy to think that would be the case. "But I will always say to the coaches that my door is always open. "We all know how emotional the game is and so after the 15-minute window we are happy to speak to any coaches that come to the door." Don't miss any live and exclusive football coverage this festive season. Click here to visit Sky Sports' Festive Calendar