Listening to the many talking heads pontificate on the rules of football is usually glorious; most of them simply do not have a clue what they are talking about. But when a defender has control of the ball and is physically pushed off it for a forward to get it from him that’s a foul. What happens when that is explained to them, as it was to Neil McCann last night?
He says that he just doesn’t like the rule. I heard that and burst out laughing. Well of course, maybe we should just do away with the rules altogether then, eah? And the offside one with it, and just give three points to the Ibrox club for turning up.
There is an incident none of them wants to talk about; the moment in the game where Kyogo runs at the Ibrox defence and lashes in the shot from the acute angle. It’s cleared off the line, but the ball is still in play.
If you’re watching what’s happening off the ball, Butland and then Goldson both take a turn at shoving Kyogo in the back; he’s actually felled by the defender. Please note that I’ve said the ball is still in play. Either of those shoves is a penalty.
Do you hear anybody talking about it? Of course not. Because that might shift the narrative towards one where we too have a right to feel aggrieved and we won and so lost that right.
But hearing the obvious pain and frustration out of the likes of McCann and Boyd makes me laugh. That no-one wants to discuss that incident I just talked about tells you which controversy they want to highlight for the next fortnight. Well, let them.
Now today their club has leaked it to one of their media nodding donkeys that they intend to “demand answers” from the SFA over their disallowed “goal” on the grounds that they don’t think the referee made a “clear and obvious error.” But of course he did. Which is why VAR highlighted it. The same ref goes over, looks again, and makes the right call.
Claims that Celtic “intimidated officials” in the lead-up to the game, a theory which has proliferated on the Ibrox fan forums, is ludicrous because, of course, we did no such thing. In fact this website called the club out explicitly because we didn’t and I thought that in order to keep these people honest we would have to.
The news that Ibrox is going to complain is hardly earth-shattering. On almost every occasion where we’ve beaten them in the last few years they have manufactured a controversy of some sort, in order to keep the scrutiny of the media and their fans on point. This is just another pitiful deflection tactic after a bad result, and one that was quite obvious.
Whatever helps them sleep at night, I guess. If I were in their shoes, I’d be a little more worried about the state of their club and their shambles of a manager. Some of the guns have turned to point right at him. I hope he survives a little longer, long enough to go out of the League Cup and get their Europa League group off to the worst possible start.
All that club is doing in disappearing down the rabbit-hole here of blaming someone else is delaying the inevitable. And it is inevitable. The Mooch has about as much of a future as this Tory government, which is now simply waiting to be put out of its misery.
Their club will be in turmoil when they have to finally do it … but that does not change the fact that eventually it will need to be done. In the meantime, they will complain.
And based on the likes of McCann, they will have a lot of people in the media willing to cheer them on as they do it.
They, too, are focussed on the wrong things.
As you say as long as they and there lackies continue to dig up any nob Ed way the same opinion itl suit us as bealybaws will still be there,and all the dumbstruck, roaring, blasting and reverberating headlines they so dearly need to breath over er,as for mcann I remember him waving his lil book of laws of the game he really ought to have read it,, doughnut,,
Bbbbbbbbut. It’s an INJUUUUSTICE!
Calimero FC. have had more dodgy decisions than the rest of the teams in the league put together. It happens week in week out and it has been going on for years.
Fascist hypocrites ralottierum.
Tonight should be a really fab listen on The Radio Clyde Superscoreboard Phone In…
I’m already looking forward to it in spades –
No doubt the presenting Motherwell fan will highlight the disallowed goals especially the second one and highlight it big time and hopefully Celtic fans that listen are onto this and strenuously counteract it by highlighting not just Butland’s but also Goldson’s shoves on Kyogo in the box with the ball in play !
While I won’t personally phone in, I’d urge any other Celtic fan to do so and see what the panel say – especially the probable Sevco minded one’s that’ll be on…
There again – they might not drag in a Sevco one as the poor wee dears might have their feelings hurt by gloating Hoops fans and irate Sevco ones of their own kith n’ kin !
It’s nothing more than the Hun scum way, promote the lie to deny reality.
There whole shitty club was built upon over the past 11 years, and remains a carbon copy of the one that came before the current one.
No surprise that the scum along with it’s cheerleaders try to turn the game all about 1 incident?
Yet its never asked by any of them, if the same incident took place up the other end, would they still claim the same decision?
We all know the answer, so must admit to be totally surprised that we got the right decision been made overall, especially upon a decision that is viewed mainly upon what colour eyes your looking through.
That doesn’t take away from the fact that the scum got what they deserved from the game.
The scum are Sure a poor team, up against one of the weekest team we had on paper for many a long years, that we didn’t play particularly well for long enough periods, yet won comfortable enough and could easily have been by a far bigger margin also.
The huge difference was the character and desire involved, and the Hun scum never had any and all the new recruits will fit in very nicely with retaining the serial losers tag and better invest in some polish to wear the badge that tavpen and goldhun do so proudly still
I am sorry James that guy did not have control of the ball, and he can thank his lucky stars that var bailed him out. I have watched it a good few times now on YouTube, and I think he was lucky that the decision went our way, because it could just have easily not have. It was absolutely terrible defending, and he was far too slow to react, he did the same thing about 10 minutes later passed the ball to one of there players. I know he only young, and he not long in the door, but if he wants to continue defending like that, then he won’t be here for long. I think any fair minded person will say we got the gods looking down on us yesterday, as big Sutton said if he was a rangers fan , he would be raging, a think that tells its own story.
What this incident showed, was just how few “knowledgeable” pundits know or understand the law. If you put all the noise aside, about who said what and analyse the incident in relation to the laws of the game, you see Gus dwelling too long on the ball, eventually realising this and turning to face his keeper, shielding the ball in the process. As he attempts the back pass he is obstructed by the planted foot of Dessers who crucially, makes no contact with the ball prior to tripping Gus. The law says this is a foul. Had Dessers nicked the ball away before Gus tripped over him, the law says he (Dessers) is in control of the ball and Gus would have been adjudged to have committed a foul. Shock, horror, controversy. Ref (correctly) applies laws of the game. What is the world coming to.
Gods looking down on us S Thomas !
Kyogo shoved twice in The Sevco Box whilst the ball is in play – by both Butland then Goldson…
The Gods certainly weren’t looking down on us in these two incidents which were stonewall penalties in my humble opinion –
What’s your humble opinion on these two shoves please !
Yes I think we were very fortunate to be honest.. I thought it was terrible defending. I think the boy brought pressure on himself through his dilydallying. I think we got away with 1 there, but it’s all about opinions pal. Guys will tell you in this blog, I tell the truth as best as a can, I am not a bigot. I think we had the gods looking down on us yesterday .
It was a foul. Exactly the same as the Haksabanovic penalty we didn’t get a few weeks ago. Unfortunately that didn’t go our way. The same as the CCV one at Tynecastle last season when Devlin kicked underneath CCV’s foot and got a penalty/ or even the one last season with Starfelt and Sakala when he stood on Starfelts foot and buys a penalty. If it was the other way around and Lagierbelke did the same to Dessers in the box then it would have been a clear penalty- why is it different for the forward fouling the defender? What is more is that Dessers also pushes Lagierbelke in the back as well as tripping him up as he goes to play the ball. We only think we’ve been LUCKY here because VAR’s introduction to Scottish football has sucked us Celtic fans into a weird parallel universe of bizarre decisions that have went against us.
Just as aside, this is quite a common theme with the media in general and SKY specifically, is that they manufacture ‘controversy’ in matches they lose, normally instigated by a commentator at the time on the SKY coverage and then once they’ve stablished the ‘controversy’ everyone in the media with blue tinted specs runs with it. Miller and Boyd did it yesterday. McCann did it last night. SKY even got the English referee with an Irish sounding name to reiterate that it wasn’t a foul on ‘Ref Watch’…the same guy (gallagher) who said the Ross County Lacavotti handball wasn’t a penalty/ or the Sakala-Starfelt one was also a penalty/ and he also insisted that Steven McLean was quite right to ignore Celtic’s claims for a penalty in the game at Ibrox in May when Connor Goldson clearly handled the ball in the penalty area…and this same Dermot Gallagher backed Nick Walsh’s decision not to award a penalty to James Forrest at Tynecastle in October last year…I could go on but there might be a pattern emerging.
Personally I though Lagierbelke played really well. Other than the one where he was fouled and one high ball over top in the first half he mistimed, he hardly put a foot wrong and he did have a lot of the ball. Not bad for a young defender coming from Sweden into an absolutely toxic cauldron of sectarian hate. He will only get better for the experience. Scales also had a few ropey moments early on but he was also very good. They made a good central defensive partnership.
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I too laughed at McCann “not liking” the law. What annoys me though, is that he is then allowed to use his position on the BBC to set the narrative of the discussion of the issue. Only Richard Gordon, at HT, tried to talk him into seeing sense. Later, on Sportscene, he was given free rein to spout his bigoted nonsense. What he should have been focusing on was the lack of a clear vision from Beale as to how his team should play. It is good to have variety and flexibility in how a team plays. The variations however, need to be based on a common theme, otherwise, instead of a harmonic symphony, you produce discordant noise. Which pretty much sums them up yesterday.
I was personally amazed that he chalked off their goal. I fully expected him to let it stand.
I think we were fortunate there.
I do take your point though about Kyogo being shoved. That needs to be highlighted.
Beyond ecstatic though to get the 3 points in that hostile midden, given our comprimised side.
Always a delight to see those wearing an Orange strip telling their own players to Fk Off !! Poetry.
It’s the usual blame game now…….sit back, relax and enjoy.
These spurious complaints from Ibrox are bringing the game into disrepute.
Plenty evidence going back decades evem, they expect decisions as we even saw yesterday ha ha as they cheered our goal! As they aint used to rules being applied utter poison!! Place should been bulldozed in 2012 tho even long before that! Its mothing more than a breeding ground of hate and vile anti social poison digusts me, i love our great club never to play that filth
Nothing more even
In reply to mr thomas i just saw the replay of the incident i think you need a test of your vision or reread the rule book
Cry more huns. HH
Just sour grapes, if it was the other way round McCoist McCann Boyd would all have the big smirks on their faces.
Nothing g to worry about with ibrox commplaing to the SFA, that’s an everyday occurrence.
Rangers expected to win.
Celtic made it a win.
Statement o’clock once again from the klan klub board screaming for a meeting with the SFA and Crawford Allen the chief in charge of the refs also being called into the meeting being demanded by the klan klub.
Watch out for Crawford Allen doing another special guest star appearance on radio shortbread tonight or later this week to explain the refs decisions in disallowing those sevco goals.
The sevco board are playing a blinder here once again shifting the focus on to the SFA and Crawford Allen to take the sting out of the defeat their team had just suffered.
Have “the rangers” and some pundits and journalists finally wakened up that VAR is flawed.CELTIC have been saying that since it’s “Inception here”and the very same people have told us rules are rules when goals have been disallowed penalties given or not given we have even been told a “the rangers” player using 2 hands to parry the ball and I quote (not a pen for me he was only protecting his face) and some poor unfortunates depend on these people’s expert opinions….. good god
McCann has previous for not adhering to laws he does not like. Tax laws for example. As for the Huns? I’m thoroughly enjoying Bealeball, and hope that the man is here for a long time. The Huns are skint. The bet the family silver in trying for the CL bounty…and failed miserably. Can they afford to pay off yet another failed manager?
Hail Hail.
C,mon we will gloss over the clan fighting amongst them selfs and i seen things getting tossed onto the park and again not one word the clan shame The Board has to keep the rotten mob out of Celtic park .
It’s done now and cannot be undone…..let the little piggies fkn squeal!
I swear I have never heard another club in world football that makes regular complaints to the Football authorities regarding on field decisions, pitiful
The whole lot of them are in denial and have been since the original Rangers went bust, all this ranting n raving is part of that n also deflection .They are unable to face up to the fact that they are a busted flush and in a very weak financial position. Nothing will change until their board firstly faces reality n in turn informs the Klan , I reckon their are 2 chances of that happen ,so the pantomine n the banter yrs will continue despite the best efforts of the Celtic board Is Mis
Thats the orc way hold on to the ” comforting lies”! They love those oont they ha ha ” We were gaebage so quadruple TREBLE don’t master”! Is the weirdos default thinking ha ha Mental!! Yeah and appart from the covid ghost league every season been thr same!! I saw the keogo shove but knew he never give it! See we know how the cespit works no one gets anything there or ever did! Tgrte plenty evidence hoing bsck decades!! The rrfs appart from being mostly huns the officials are terrified to annoy ” der hun” God knows why tho as most i ever met were utter cowards! And mutans as we saw yesterday again ! I just love this bs ” this Celtic team are crap” Well watch Brendan amass 95 plus points you mutants as we romp another league and Scottish cup!! Ha ha love it!