Referee Steven McLean saw the incident when Josh Meekings stopped a Leigh Griffiths header crossing the line with his hand. He was 12 yards away with an unobstructed view. The blame for getting the decision wrong is entirely his.
We can only speculate as to why he didn’t award a penalty. At best, McLean didn’t believe the evidence of his own eyes and passed the buck to his assistant Alan Muir, who was around 6 yards from the action but with a less-clear view.
Muir did not see Meekings clear the ball legally. If he was distracted, and failed to see what happened clearly enough, he should have informed the referee. If Muir told the referee anything else, this is also a failing.
The SFA have a case to answer. Not fit and proper, to use their parlance.
Notwithstanding the fact that if the rules of the game were followed Celtic would be in the cup final right now, they are out because they failed to deal appropriately with the known qualities of Inverness.
Three goals were lost, all of which were defensive mistakes. A break downfield which caught the defence cold, a cross from the right which was not properly contested with all defenders in position, and a failure to match a back post run (similar to a recent League Cup final goal conceded to Kilmarnock). Fatigue may have contributed to the final goal but being down to 10 men was not a contributing factor for the first two.
The game should have been won in the first half but we opened the second period off-pace.
Another matter which should be on the agenda at Lennonxtown today is why didn’t we have the right studs on?
It should be someone’s job to make a decision after the team arrives at a ground on which studs to wear. If the decision was made, the decision was wrong. If this process was not followed, it should have been. Either way there is also a case to answer internally.
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KevJungle
Neil Lennon has been away from the club for less than a year.
Give the manager a break. Is Hoopy the only person at Celtic Park you like?
I don;t mind your posts normally but instead of giving out constructive criticism and progressive suggestions you trot out the same lines. I think generally you have a point but there is never any resolutions suggested.
Let me ask a question. Who is on your perfect Celtic board?
Please give a couple of names at least.
LB
Stop whining guys, get out and do something collectively.
Auldheid has made a suggestion that will facilitate change.
At present we are lone voices.
RRespectfully, change needs action not bluster.
bazzabhoy
11:16 on 21 April, 2015
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We have a board full of successful billionaires and yet, Celtic canny get into the CL.
I suggest that…Celtic supporters withold SB-money and, use it to buy out the board if, the board refuse to do the honourable thing and resign en-masse….not a ‘token’ resignation by one executive but, by them all.
Hand over the control of Celtic FC to Jeanette Findlay and her ilk…imho
LiviBhoy
11:23 on 21 April, 2015
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I dont have a resolution…apart from what I suggest in my post above.
But, I have a reality prediction….apathy will get rid of the board.
You awe get whit ye deserve
That’s whit ye get for asking
That’s whit ye get for no asking
Kevjungle
So you have joined the CST have you?
Presumably you would oppose a resolution on SFA reform and put forward your own on Board reform.
Like to articulate it?
The statement from Celtic is rather poor.
One two line paragraph stating that they are writing to the SFA about the match.
One two line paragraph to congratulate ICT.
One two line paragraph admitting that Celtic fan reaction has prompted the statement.
One two line paragraph to say…well it’s not quite clear what this paragraph actually means.
“We have not been given any other specific explanation so far and this is simply to understand the circumstances of what went on and why such an obvious error was made.”
Passive speech to reference something so clear cut is very strange, and this makes the sentence read very clumsily. It could have been written by a semi literate person.
What is the ‘this’?
What is the ‘other’ specific explanation they have already been given?
Why a screaming run on sentence as part of an official club statement?
Who sanctioned this statement release?
Who was not around to vet it?
Come on Celtic. Do better than this.
Sorry guys but press ganging Kevj is not the answer either. What happened to the new era of transparency from a few years back as outlined in my last post ?
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HH
Auldheid
11:29 on 21 April, 2015
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All I’ll say is…you know that I dont trust you coz…I regard you as being part of a clique…planted by the Celtic board to spin a lot of stuff to kill time till the huns come back, taking folks eyes off the ball when….in reallity….you ‘fear’ your board being found-out…then emptied and, being a hanger-on you’ll become insignifcant in any fall-out.
Keep spinning yer kaliedoscope/smoke-screens/mirrors etc for those who cant see through you…I’m not buying yer guff….ok.
There is an ingrained bias against Celtic from the Scottish football authorities in general and Scottish referees in particular.
It’s always been there and it’s not going to change. The reasons are complicated, and it’s much more than simple, conscious bias.
Fans just have to come to terms with that, and if they can, reach some sort of accommodation with it.
Talk of fans actions, boycotts, alliances with fans of other clubs is just hot air.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
11:36 on 21 April, 2015
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Keep it lit fella – Hail Hail
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
So if more than one poster answers another it’s press-ganging, hardly Awe Naw..
I guess the lawyer in you already has the answer to the question you asked about search engines so what’s the story Morning Glory??
Bmcw….sorry,,i have never suggested any use for or of Cucumbers,Alternative or otherwise….Wee Freudian slip there ….Bless….South of Tunis……That was funny mate………
Rumours of a recording of the match officials Audio conversation on Sunday being leaked?
macanbheatha,
Deanaim comhbhrón ó chroi leat ar bhás do dheirfiúr.
Go raibh suaimnheas siorrai aici.
Árd Macha
rwe @ 11 31..
The statement reads like it was written by someone who had been lumbered with the task and was in a hurry to get home..It is cringeworthy amateur level guff.
don,t quote me …but I heard from the Goat that Maclean had first Tap …and he wisnae that clean! and the song he requested made the poor goat squidillie …
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d1oyvAMtFsk
braw
MURDOCHBHOY
Some people seem to think punctuation is unimportant as it isn’t required in speech,for instance.
Fair point,I suppose. But I think it shows respect to your correspondent.
When I can be bothered at work,I print out e-mails and return them in internal mail with spelling,punctuation and grammar mistakes highlighted.
Pisses people off big time. Yet I work for a newspaper-not The Grauniad!-and these mails are from people who should know better.
And frequently say they canny understand a word I’m saying,btw.
They usually understand my reply…
Fergus was no hero….
Fergus didny expose the SFA when they threatened to throw Celtic out of the league as, they were not for paying the hun-inflated-fee that the SFA were demanding for hiring Hampden whilst CP was being built coz….Fergus knew that if….he blew the lid off Scottish Football’s corruption….he widny have got his £40 million for his 5 years work at Celtic.
So…who did Fergus put 1st….Celtic?….or his £40 million?….why wait until his ‘last’ days in office before exposing Farry?
Fergus was in it for him and, him alone.
Had Fergus went for the SFA during the ‘Hampden’ season…there would have been ‘no’ Hun 9 in a row…surely Mr Stein’s record was worth more than £40 million?
What’s with all this negative chat about cucumbers? I always thought that the common consensus was that cucumbers were cool…
Starry
my point is we went through this all very recently. Since then it has got worse. This is a failure by the board or is it ? Are they content with matters ? The silence and even the most recent statement would indicate that they are.
My question is a legitimate one and easily dismissed. Maybe Paul67 can do so.
Auldheid is singularly the best postet on this board closely followed by TBB
HH
McLean a mason of Busby branch?
Surely we should be lobbying the SFA to ensure that membership of discriminatory secretive bodies should preclude employment.
KEVJ
Fergus didny expose the SFA when they threatened to throw Celtic out of the league as, they were not for paying the hun-inflated-fee that the SFA were demanding for hiring Hampden whilst CP was being built
Any proof of this,or did you come up wi the idea in your softroom?
…….oot.
Can’t stand the heat.. OOT ye go
We are Celtic supporters,
faithful through and through,
unless we don’t get a penalty,
then we talk about boycotting games.
I’m still disgusted with Sunday but we’ve got to back the team, especially now as we’ve still got work to do to win this league.
Can you imagine if Scott Brown decided not to play in a game that McLean was referee? Only Celtic would suffer.
I read Kev, Nega and so on posts and it convinces me that things are not going to change. Why: because we are stuck with this no balls board. We are stuck with the Hun Establishment and their cheating official. So Timmy you can lump it or GTF. I’ve made up my mind.
Themaestro72…..Agreed 100…..
BMCUW,
I may have been a little too vague in my previous post, sorry – my quip about punctuation was aimed at the interloper I believe you’ve identified.
Good to see Some sanity back on here after two days of Madness…..
The Green Man
10:20 on
21 April, 2015
Now, I believe there was a pro- cannabis event in George Square yesterday.
Agree with it or not.
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There was indeed. I walked past it on my way to a meeting – naturally I held my breath!
It sounded better than it looked. Some good toons but many of the participants looked more like Glasgow Heroin Chic rather than Kingston Kool Natty Dreads!
;-)
My back’s still sore.
My mood hasn’t cheered.
But at least my inability to bend may save me from any errant cucumbers!
HH jamesgang
The anticipated fight back from the SFA has begun today. The man at the top says view where obstructed…for a millisecond ! What sort of shyte is that !? John Hartson out saying there’s no conspiracy, the first of several ex-players who will be lined out to do so.
In the end, we’ll be accused of being sore losers and being paranoid. And the world will move on, nothing accomplished. Just hoping that next season we don’t leave ourselves vulnerable to cheats in black.
Awe_Naw_No_Annoni_Oan_Anaw_Noo
Aye the board stuff you posted I got that, I was more interested in the search engine question, that would not be a question I would pose had I not the answer maybe I’ve seen To Kill a Mockingbird too many times..
Our recent statement is a hedger, not well structured but it asks the question without getting the jackets aff.
There’s a lot of people who think getting the jackets aff is the answer I prefer Auldheid’s patient stalking approach but that’s just me.
The issue is back in focus due to McLean’s performance let’s see where it goes but it’s a football thing all the clubs not just a Celtic thing as many seem to make it. When we act alone you see the reaction, it has to come a board level SPFL/SFA. Would love of board to at least be clear to the support where they stand but we’ve been waiting a long time for that:((
Kev J’s disrespect of one of our most respected posters ( Auldheid) does not sit well me, a lot of good men no longer post here, you have to ask yourself why?
Clique meeting in the usual place at the usual time:))) isch guet schatlzi:))
Hai Hai
Posting when working blues CSC
Auldheid, absolutely spot on, is there a role someone like myself who lives in England could play in either of the 2 bodies you mentioned?
Too many windmills being tilted at round here, off oot.
TIMJIM
Once more,I respectfully request that you are selective in your boycott. Even though I understand your reasons-as stated earlier.
However,it is your call to make. It’s difficult to demand that the board back the support when our continued attendance suggests to them that we are a happy bunch.
I genuinely wish I could meet you for a beer or two in autumn wi my Dad-he’s about the same age as you,but a happyclapper-and I genuinely hope you shoot an albatross and enjoy your wife’s retirement to the full.
No albatrosses were harmed in this post,of course.
The players can play badly. The manager can make mistakes. We were not at our best on Sunday but how anyone can believe that the referee has made an honest mistake and not given us a penalty at 1-0 up?
At least one of the officials seen it and chose not to give it.
The least you expect from officials is transparency and honesty.
LB
Yes wheel out a man who has previous to comment on Celtic’s wanting an answer. This cost Dundee Utd a league cup win in 2008 against who, I wonder?
Check it out from 2mins 39 seconds in:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Pye5rueBDx0
David
Was that “penalty” v Dundee??