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SFA & SPL - The clowns will hide nowAnother Old Firm been and gone, another few questionable decisions, another few questionable events.

A first half lead was not protected but technically I believe, an own goal aside, it was not all our own fault.

Other than our average play, lets separate the events that turned the tide even as worse against us:-

– 1 – The already yellow carded neanderthal, Lee Mc Culloch, was not sent off for a body check which was a definate bookable offence which in any other match would have seen him gain a second yellow and gain his marching orders.

Willie Collum’s behind dropped away from him and like some referees before him he stayed away from that red card.

My decision – Willie you got it wrong and you made a considerable error in your refereeing judgement of the foul from McCulloch, I would have grasped the yellow flashed it high to confirm his second bookable offence and by having a set of testicles to do so, I would have sent him off.

– 2 – Wee Shaun Maloney got a shot to the brow by Steven Nai’baws’ that made his eye socket swell up like one of Pamela Andersons nips left out in the winter breeze.

My opinion – Had Shaun not got injured so early he had no time at all to test the rangers backline. If he had stayed on the pitch he may have been the Bhoys fulcrum to getting at the rangers defensive set out.  No dis-respect to his replacement, Efrain Juarez, but the two guys both have their strengths and weaknesses but Maloneys experience in Old Firm situations swings it everytime to me. Maloneys typical pocket dynamic spark was a much needed light that we didn’t have in a very dark situation.

– 3 – The own goal early into the second half. A defensive mix up that led to a decisive equalising goal.

My opinion – I watched the replay of this goal several times and if Glenn kept his head he could have dealt with the ball better rather than take a lump of a swing at the ball. Nerves got the better of our backline and it should have been dealt with better.

– 4 – Forsters goal kicks. He seemed off with his kicking distibution all afternoon. This led to a goal against us that gave the gers a 2-1 lead.

My opinion – The lad has talent in abundance and will learn from this big stage rivalry. According to pre-match interviews he seemed up for the match but his kicking let him down. Fraser will look at the replays of the kicks he took and will advertently go back to the drawing board and learn from those mistakes. Maybe nerves got to him but we had no one else to turn to, all I can say is Fraser keep battling on and I hope you learn from the mistakes made in the first ‘Big Match’ of your career.

In a rounding off note he was not the only pragmatist in the run up to the goal as the cross could have also been defended better. A shaky defence can do nasty things to a goalkeepers confidence.

– 5 – The penalty? Was it? Willie thought so. The situation again got the best of him when his back was to the “offending” tackle from Majstorovic. He gave them the critical decision for a dive from Kirk Broadfoot, that he deemed to be a foul worthy of a penalty.

My opinion – Willie caved in, he was un-aware of the “clash” between Maj and Kirk, he could not have seen it fully nor did he consult his linesman like referees at Tannadice do, he immediately blew for the penalty like he almost knew he had to. The 31 year old Mr Collum, who is younger than a majority of the contesting players got the decision totally wrong, he fecked it up and should never referee a match of this calibre again. The SFA or SPL or whoever put Willie Collum in charge should be ashamed, surely we have a better referee that that in Scotland? If not, why not in future consider flying a third party referee in who has no scottish heritage at all but masses of continental experience to be the match official.

Willie you arsed it up and you did not even see the incident. If you care to see it for the first time go over to the BBC football website and in the Celtic section the clip of the “Broadfoot foul for the penalty” can be seen there.

The penalty that should not have been – Incident De-construction

For the sake of my own sanity I have decided to take apart my own captured video footage I have of the incident and for the “sheer delight” of the possible readers who may come across this I have produced screen shots of the incident in a stage by stage concept.

Dive stage 1 – Broadfoot decides to knock the ball past Majstorovic and start to leap towards Dannys left leg.

Dive stage 1

Dive stage 2 – Broadfoot in motion pushes his weight towards the approaching Majstorovic and continues his salmon like leap before any contact has even been made. Left leg bent off the ground right pushing into the approaching Maj.

Dive stage 2

Dive stage 3 – Broadfoot, who is already diving in motion, finally connects with Majstorovic to add to his dive in effect, notice from the image below that he connects with Maj’s arm first not his leg, even though Broadfoot already seems to be heading in a motion forwards with his head suggesting his balance is forwards ideal for a dive.

Dive stage 3

Dive stage 4 – Broadfoot raises his right leg off the ground and he gives us a good superman impression in flight, the dive is done.

Dive stage 4

At this point out of shot referee Willie Collum had his back to the incident.

Here is the proof from two different angles:-

Angle 1 – Collum has his back to the players just as the incident takes place. Collum looks clearly fixated on the ball.

Angle 2 – You can see the angle Collum is away from the incident taking place he could not have fully have witnessed the “collision” between the two players.

Collum back to the incident

The above proves that the decision was shoddy. Collum if he saw anything, only saw Broadfoot land on the turf thats all he had to go on. I studied the video footage I captured and this proves he was totally incorrect.

With the press jumping more at the death threats Willie Collum has received in the wake of the events of the match rather than the focus being on the cheat that is Kirk Broadfoot (Who has previous for diving, ask Hearts fans or search broadfoot dive against hearts on google) where are the voices of the SFA or SPL in all of this?

So I ask you the SFA and SPL cheifs and chairpersons where are your explanations? Or have the clowns gone into hiding?

As ever Celts and even those who are not, opinions are always accepted!!!

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  • Al says:

    Stokes should have been off in the first minute. Celtc with 10 men would have been totally gubbed. I like you you missed that one.

    Then Samaras straight leg on Bougherra which should have been a yellow minimum and he’d have been off later in the game. You conveniently missed that one too.

    No doubt you’ll delete this comment as it conflicts with your one sided world view.

    • Sean says:

      Ok your opinion has been had, we will agree to disagree but I am no animal nor am I labelling you one, so read on and answers afterwards please.

      Now to the nittiy-gritty you seem opinionated so answer me these few puzzlers?

      Now your view on McCullochs body check / potential second yellow???

      …and Kirk Broadfoots blatant dive for the penalty please?

    • lordofthewing says:

      Your points, valid, prove that Gollum was a PIE! Sending of Sammy would have improved us.

  • Seoul Bhoy says:

    There is also the Ki/Naismith incident where both players were involved in ‘hangbags’ but yet only Ki gets booked, allowing Naismith to continue his rabid ferret impersonation.

    It should also be noted that Naismith was involved in the ‘accidental’ collision with Maloney.

  • lordofthewing says:

    Maloney, with him we were more attack minded without we brought on a player struggling for form. Unsure if it would have made such a great difference.

    Forster, was out before everyone else in the second half practising kicking. There was problem and our backline knowing there was a problem and still giving him the ball is criminal.

    Glenda defended like a 12 year old getting a look at Pamala Anderson’s nipple.

    And the SFA are trying to cover up numerous breach of policies from the week before in Dundee so I wouldn’t expect anything from them until they wash the blood from their hands.

  • srr says:

    In response to “Sending of Sammy would have improved us.”

    What absolute rubbish!!

    It sickens me that so-called Celtic “supporters” continue to make this man a scapegoat for the failings of the team on the pitch

    To suggest one man is reponsible every time we play poorly, merely ‘cos he is on the pitch (and not scoring) is quite ludicrous, especially given he plays on the wing a lot, as opposed to his favoured striking role

    I thought Samaras was one of very few players (for us) on Sunday who actually looked lively and wanted the ball

    I’m tired of this ‘anti-Samaras’ bandwagon… funny how those critisicing him are soon quick to praise him and sing his name when he’s scoring… if he’s in and out of the side obviously he’s gonna struggle for form and yes, he’s no Henrik Larsson but who is?!

    Give the guy a break… his work rate is phenomenal and with a decent run in the starting eleven, the goals will come, you just watch… and since when was 25 goals in 71 appearances bad? As I say, a fair few of those 71 appearances were on the wing too

    Until then, get behind him and all the players. The last thing we want at our football club is more moaning ‘supporters’ who single out players, sigh and groan at failed passes or mis-hit shots etc… prawn sandwich anyone?!

    TAL.

    • lordofthewing says:

      I think you took the ironic rebuttal to a lurking soothsider a bit too seriously but you highlight Sammys problem. He never hides so it’s noticeable when he does naff all 90% of the time with the ball. Also, I know what character he would be in the wizard of oz.

      He has all the ability to grace any league in the world if he could just seem bothered. I do wish him well but end up frustrated watching him.

  • ianin440 says:

    We have a new game to concentrate on tonight. I would have been surprised to see a red card for Stokes. This sort of tackle happens all the time and was perfected by Derek Parlane on Billy McNeill on a regular basis. No bookings were ever awarded in those dark days. 🙂

  • Omaha Bhoy says:

    I only was able to watch online. Was there a hand ball to complain about also when Rangers failed to clear? I forget when it was exactly but want to say it was the second half… Maybe it was judged correctly a matter of the ball playing the hand but it seemed to have taken away a potential scoring chance.

  • sixtaeseven says:

    Interesting to look at official UEFA CL site (where they have stats for everything).
    They have a list of most “fouls suffered” by player.
    Guess who have TWO players in the top THREE?
    That’s right the diving huns.

    http://www.uefa.com/uefachampionsleague/statistics/round=2000118/players/type=foulssuffered/index.html

    Aye, Wattie has got them coached in the black arts right enough.

    • Sean says:

      Now that does not surprise me at all.

      Rangers have a diving pair in Naismith and Broadfoot, watch out for them at the next olympics.

      All I can say is sixtaeseven take a bow. PROOF IF WE EVER NEEDED IT?

    • lordofthewing says:

      Hunbelievable

  • Broadfoot is a diving hun auntie fanny im afraid bhoys.
    If this is what mordor fans think is qualitiy football then that’s fine,but remember the sheite wee Aiden and Shaun used tae get for diving?
    Oh well back to Anti Football again this week trying to emulate the great Lisbon Lions expansive and wonderful attacking prowess?
    Like a wee genius once said “like Holland only speeded up”.
    Forever in our shadow Hail Hail.
    Ps whatever did they do with the Cup Winners Cup?
    Lol

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