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Soccer-Inverness defender set to miss final after handball controversy

LONDON, April 21 (Reuters) - Inverness Caledonian Thistle defender Josh Meekings is set to miss the Scottish Cup final for a handball incident that was not seen by the match officials in their semi-final victory over Celtic on Sunday.

Meekings went unpunished for blocking a first-half goalbound header from Leigh Griffiths with his arm on the goalline but will be sanctioned in retrospect.

Inverness won 3-2 in extra-time to secure a final next month with Falkirk but Meekings could miss out, despite Inverness rejecting the offer of a one-match ban from the Scottish FA for "denying the opposing team an obvious goal scoring opportunity by deliberately handling the ball".