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Rewarding referees who find ‘innovative’ penalty interpretations

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If my memory was sharper, I would be able to tell you when Celtic went 18 months without being awarded a penalty in domestic football (they were awarded in Europe during this spell).  When the ‘anomaly’ was uncovered, it made news across all media for a few days.

There must have been a sharp intake of breath when referees read that stat.  Analysis reset the threshold and next game out Celtic won a penalty (a foul on Neil Lennon comes to mind).

Newco are the only team in the Premiership not to have a penalty awarded against them this season, an exceptional situation 20 games in.  It is an accumulation of hundreds of decisions by many officials, all coming up blue.

Steven McLean will be in charge of their next game, away to Dundee United on Sunday, the man who reinvented the handball and red card rules in the 2015 Scottish Cup semi-final.  With Celtic 1-0 ahead, Leigh Griffiths beat the keeper, but Inverness defender Josh Meekings was on the line and made a save with his hand.

A penalty and red card should have been awarded, instead, play was waved on.  As well as an assistant, McLean had a ‘Fifth official’ behind the goal to collude with, none was prepared to take action.  In a storied history of referee decisions against Celtic, this one surely ranks in the top three.

McLean later red carded Celtic keeper Craig Gordon and awarded a penalty which took Inverness to extra-time, where the man advantage proved sufficient to send Celtic out of the Cup.  Far from being demoted, the following year, McLean accepted a fulltime appointment in the SFA’s refereeing setup and was awarded the Scottish Cup Final.

Would you bet on the current Newco penalty stat coming to an end at Tannadice on Sunday?  I think it’s a stick-on if Newco are a couple of goals ahead.

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  1. Gene on

    BRRB

     

    Shipbank crew – meeting of the wise men from the east end of Glasgow – a Magi(c) epiphany indeed

     

    Enjoy

  3. KINGLUBO on

    GENE

     

    My sympathy for you, a disgraceful un-necessary situation.

     

    It may be no surprise to anyone that the Toly party are dying to privatise the NHS and are deliberately making things worse. I read recently that in Greater London something in the order of 20% of GP practices are owned by US private equity companies.

     

    As for Starmer, he is less of a socialist than Maggie Thatcher, clown . He even bollocked one of his MP’s for going on the picket line FFS

     

     

    KINGLuBO

  10. Back to Basics - Glass Half Full on

    ParkheadCumSalford …

     

     

    Lol. Don’t sweat.

     

     

    Can understand anyone’s frustration with Keir.

     

     

    I had fairly high hopes for the guy when he was announced but he’s underwhelmed me often since.

     

     

    As for today’s output?

     

     

    Sophistry and equivocation in spades.

     

     

    Personally, I believe there is a genuine untapped electoral market for “Brexit was irretrievably stupid” / “time to seriously go after the super rich” positioning.

     

     

    Clearly he doesn’t.

     

     

    To be fair to him – it’s his manor, not mine. He has serious skin in the game and I don’t.

  12. ernie lynch on

    KINGLUBO on 5TH JANUARY 2023 4:35 PM

     

    GENE

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

    ‘It may be no surprise to anyone that the Toly party are dying to privatise the NHS and are deliberately making things worse.’

     

     

     

    ###

     

     

     

    That much is clear.

     

     

    I suspect the SNP under Sturgeon are adopting a similar approach across everything they have responsibility for. ‘Trash the lot so people are desperate enough to vote for independence as a last resort’.

     

     

    It almost makes you nostalgic for the first Salmond government (remember it, the one where the Tories kept him in power) when his strategy was to show that if the SNP could run things effectively people would be more likely to vote yes.

     

     

    It all seems such a long time ago.

     

     

    Does anyone know what Salmond is doing now? Did he die or emigrate or something?

  13. Gene on

    Ernie , Kinglubo etal

     

     

    The NHS has been a party political football for years – it’s never had a 10 year plan that commits a strategy that everyone can buy into. You could put the whole of the UK GDP into it and it still wouldn’t be enough.

  20. bigrailroadblues on

    Gene

     

    I actually like all the ingredients. I’ll get one for me and Big Jimmy tomorrow.

  21. celtic40me on

    GP surgeries have always been privately owned. It’s not the Tories who are selling them off to private equity firms.

  22. Gene on

    BRRB

     

     

    I see you as Caspar

     

     

    Gaspar (or Caspar) wears a green cloak and a gold crown with green jewels. He is the King of Sheba. Gaspar represents the Frankincense brought to Jesus.

     

    Melchior has long white hair and a white beard and wears a gold cloak. He is the King of Arabia. Melchior represents the Gold brought to Jesus.

     

    Balthazar has a black beard and wears a purple cloak. He is the King of Tarse and Egypt. Balthazar represents the gift of Myrrh that was brought to Jesus.

  24. Saint Stivs on

    here we go again,

     

     

    those “generations of unionists” lived in different times. what is their voting history got to do with anything now ?

     

     

    their great great grandweans vote nationalist, get over it.

  27. ernie lynch on

    SAINT STIVS on 5TH JANUARY 2023 5:08 PM

     

    here we go again,

     

     

     

     

     

     

    those “generations of unionists” lived in different times.

     

     

    ####

     

     

    Different times indeed.

     

     

    The Easter Rising, Partition, The Civil War, the Border Campaign, The Troubles.

     

     

    And yet through all those events Celtic fans were resolutely what you describe contemptuously (and disingenuously) as Unionists.

     

     

    But all supported Irish Independence and distrusted and detested the SNP.

     

     

    It needs a better explanation than the pathetic efforted you’ve attempted.

     

     

    Were they stupid?

     

     

    Ignorant?

     

     

    Cowardly?

  35. ernie lynch on

    SAINT STIVS on 5TH JANUARY 2023 5:35 PM

     

     

     

    That’s no answer, and is not even an attempt at a coherent argument.

     

     

    The fact is that generations of Celtic fans supported Irish Independence but wanted Scotland to remain as a member of the UK.

     

     

    They saw no inconsistency in that position.

     

     

    And they were right.

  36. Saint Stivs on

    and so what ? it doesnt need an argument , it was factual then, what has it got to do with how people choose to vote now ?

     

     

    Should I just vote Labour for ever because my granda did when he worked in a shipyard but would never be promoted because of his religion ?

  38. Celtic Mac on

    Ah the ol’ Border Campaign, takes me back to the days of Bert Lynch, who fought in that campaign, or rather very much against it until he crossed the Irish Sea, back in the day. And memories of Sean South, an unlikely hero for any knowledgeable Nationalist less so for some modern day Celtic supporters. Few days into the New Year and the Unionist tendency re-appears like clockwork. They haven’t gone away you know.

     

     

    We Know CSC

  40. Gene on

    BRRB

     

    As you disappear over Victoria road following the star that’s settled over Celtic park. ⭐

  42. Saint Stivs on

    Anyways onto important things – watching the news can anyone give a home to a rescue Nicholas Witchell.

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