Earlier on I wrote about Crawford Allan and those comments he made yesterday. As The Celtic Star and other sites have stated, it was listed as a “mistake” by Allan and his report, but the decision itself has been held up as correct.
Some in the media would prefer it if you ignored the last part. The mistake was in the way the decision was arrived at. The decision itself was legit. Because, and I keep saying this, that’s not a penalty kick regardless of anything else.
The press would love to push this line that some big injustice was done there. They would love to push a version of this story wherein the VAR officials and others conspired to explain away a decision that was either mistaken or corrupt.
Neither of those things is true. The Ibrox board can howl this from the rooftops and people like The Village Idiot can howl at the moon but the correct decision was arrived at regardless of timing, the VAR view or the offside.
It’s like the decision earlier in the season involving their disallowed strike at Ibrox; that wasn’t a goal. The foul on the Celtic man was obvious. There were months of fury and foot-stamping over that one too, but the correct decision was made.
The way the press is covering the Allan report is hardly a surprise. Some of them still refuse to accept that the decision was right, and they never will. Hell, there are evidently some of them who believe that The Unseen Fenian Hand was pulling the strings of every official at Celtic Park that day, or that it operates Willie Collum by remote control.
Some of them have said as much in print.
The likes of Keith Jackson get most of their views and opinions from the Ibrox fan forum basement floors. They believe every mad theory that percolates down there. And for all of it, they have never produced a single concrete example of their club being prejudiced again. Look at how many we can name off the top of our heads.
There is much less attention given to some of the other findings in that report, such as the ones involving penalty incidents involving the Ibrox club. There are a couple of those where the inference is clear that major errors have been made. In a close title race, why isn’t that the lead story? Why aren’t they the key findings?
The double standard stinks, doesn’t it?
There are questions which arise from some of these issues. How many involved the two “full time VAR officials”? The SFA knows the names of every official involved; how many are common denominators? Who are the repeat offenders and which games involved them? If the same people are consistently making mistakes, what happens to them?
There are plenty of stories which come out of this dossier, and the admission that there have been all these mistakes. So much for VAR having made decision making better; this suggests the opposite. But some in the media are determined to get the story they want out of it, and the story they want is that the Alastair Johnston decision is even more controversial.
And in point of fact, that could not be further from the truth. In fact, it is more vindicated than ever.
Hi James.
This is more about an earlier blog as I know that you like to quote movies.
Liebrox talking to Crawford Allan , is like The Merovingian talking to Neo , I see you like to follow orders ,so run back with this!
The Matrix.
scotlands sevco media shame no mention of the turnbull penalty incident a shower of gutless imposters .
Thank fcuk Scousebhoy that I stopped reading these rags over twenty years ago…
Even then it was ma wee granny’s (God rest her) cast off –
Once on a very rough ferry a teenage girl sat near me spewed everywhere…
Her mother (I presume) threw the pages of The Daily Record all over it to hide it –
All I could say was “The poor vomit” !!!
My biggest fear is that somehow the powers that be will feel obliged to ‘right a wrong ‘ in the next Glasgow Derby ! The lead up week to the game shall be full of the non penalty tales of woe in the SMSM . It shall tell us volumes of course greatly about the outcome of the derby ,from those good old boys in Hampden’ s 6 th floor by who is selected to match officiate and organise VAR also . Every picture has its shadows …always needing light too ! If you get my drift ?
I think come the end of the season the use of VAR should be re-evaluated and all clubs should have a vote if they want it scrapped.
In addition to protesting against the Celtic Board at tomorrow’s game against Kilmarnock I hope the fans ‘wade in’ verbally on those two shithouse rats, Beaton and Collum, who will do their utmost to stop Celtic collecting the 3 league points on offer. Ignore the rumour that Mark Lawwell is leaving Celtic. If true, it only means that Pedro is officially back in charge of the recruitment process. I was saying to the wife how strange it is that three members of the Royal Family are seriously ill at present. She says that Megan Markle’s mother is responsible. I was thinking of writing a nice letter to the woman asking her to ‘weave some of her magic’ on the Celtic Board. Hopefully we’d get a similar result. I’ve just opened a bottle of aftershave I got as a Christmas present. It’s ‘light blue forever’ by Dolce & Gabbana…….. I believe Peter Lawwell uses a special edition called ‘Norwegian Blue Forever’. Have a great weekend everybody.
Couldn’t agree more. What surprised me (although it shouldn’t have done) was lack of press comment on the status of the games when the mistakes were made. Were these game changing decisions? If awarded a penalty when already 3 up it doesn’t really matter (leaving GD to one side) but if it’s a tight game then it’s significant.
Have a look at the reported wrong VAR decisions. Rangers should not have had a penalty in two games, away at Livingston on Nov 9th and at home to Dundee on Dec 12th. On both occasions Steven Kirkland was the VAR official. The report states that the dive by McCausland at Livi SHOULD have been VAR reviewed then overturned and the Sima dive at Ibrox versus Dundee SHOULD NOT have been VAR reviewed and the on field decision of no penalty should have stood. Steven Kirkland is choosing when to get involved as long as it benefits Rangers and is worth the watching.
Not ‘Rangers’ that should not have had the penalties in two games Simon…
Remember – They died in 2012 –
As of today they are 11 years and 203 days old !