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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And, as Gene makes clear, nowadays what is referenced by VAR…….
I think the Establishment and the SMSM are a wee bit rattled; otherwise why the articles and items like last night’s effort by BBC Scotland’s sports department to say that everything is rosy and there’s nothing to see. NAE CORRUPTION in bonnie Scotland. Pull the other one.
BIG JIMMY on 6TH JANUARY 2023 6:11 AM
Im watching LAUREL and HARDY in the 1930 Film…” ANOTHER FINE MESS”….
MAGIC Stuff !
it on Channel 82…Talking Pictures.
HH
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have you watched Stan & Ollie yet? I watched it at Christmas and really enjoyed it. Steve Coogan is excellent as Stan
CONEYBHOY on 6TH JANUARY 2023 9:48 AM
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No mate, I havent seen the Steve Coogan Film/Show ?
Steve Coogan as ” ALAN PARTRIDGE” was hilarious.
HH
CONEYBHOY…
I meant that I havent seen ” STAN and OLLIE” yet.
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For you Joe
HH
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Gianluca Vialli RIP.
A couple of wee questions for you Joe.
– Occasion?
– Who was the better player?
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JOHNJAMES a must read today.
Shocking news
Gianluca Vialli has died at the age of 58.
Joshua Law
Fri, 6 January 2023 at 10:04 am
On a February evening in 1998, Ruud Gullit flicked on the television, pressed the Teletext button and there it was, the news nobody – not even he – expected. Gullit had been sacked as Chelsea’s player-manager just nine months after winning the club’s first major trophy for 26 years.
He had had no prior warning, no reason given – not yet at least. And just a few hours later, his replacement was revealed. As if the story was not sensational enough, the man to fill his spot was one of his players, Gianluca Vialli.
As sporting soap opera goes, this was the peak; the late-90s, west London football equivalent of EastEnders’ big reveal of Phil Mitchell’s shooter.
It must have felt like a knife in the back for Gullit. Yet for Chelsea, it was a decision that ultimately paid off, another turning point in a successful era that is now inextricably linked with an elegant, shiny-headed, larger-than-life Italian attacker-cum-coach.
Vialli had arrived at the club in the summer of 1996 on a free transfer. He was quite the coup. He had lifted the European Cup as captain of Juventus just a few weeks before signing – a footballing aristocrat both figuratively and literally having grown up in a 60-room castle.
Yet here he was at Stamford Bridge, at a Chelsea that was nowhere near the Chelsea of today, getting on board with the Premier League’s foreign revolution.
Gullit, who signed Vialli, had just been appointed player-manager and the team was to feature Dan Petrescu, Gianfranco Zola, Roberto Di Matteo and Frank Leboeuf. It was exciting and continental, bubbly Prosecco football to replace the chips-and-gravy stuff that had gone before.
That season, Chelsea won the FA Cup, with Di Matteo’s famous strike giving the Blues the edge over the Middlesbrough of Juninho and Ravanelli. But for Vialli personally, it was a campaign of more downs than ups.
He had scored a brilliant winner away at Old Trafford and two goals in a thrilling fourth round FA Cup tie with Liverpool. Chelsea fans had taken to him immediately and sang his song to the tune of ‘That’s Amore’. But for much of the season, Vialli was embroiled in a feud with Gullit that often saw him on the bench with Mark Hughes and Zola preferred in attack.
The next season, things started well, with Vialli scoring four in an away game at Barnsley, after which his manager paid him a backhanded compliment. “He looked fitter and sharper,” said Gullit, “and he’s given up smoking.” Vialli also buttressed terrace hero status with a leader’s display against Tromso in the Cup Winners’ Cup, scoring two away goals in a Norwegian blizzard and a hat-trick at home as Chelsea went through 9-3 on aggregate.
The Vialli-Gullit relationship was still strained, however, and in the book Blue Day, Vialli is quoted as saying: “I was playing more, but I was frustrated with the rotation system which didn’t really make sense. I was thinking of maybe leaving. My friend Atillio Lombardo was at Crystal Palace and I thought about them, but also Celtic and Glasgow Rangers.”
Aye but
It’s nice to hear that ” Journalists ” are looking in. Well get this.
“Rangers” and the SFA are cheats. Everything in the history of “Rangers” has been gained by deception.
Your entire lives are based on lies and deception. Thanks for visiting.
Regarding VAR decisions and when penalties are awarded or not, certainly in one of the two decisions which went Celtic’s way, the Livingston penalty made no difference to the result, we were ahead and fully in control. What was the other one which went in Celtic’s favour, anyone?
Secondly, the two decisions which didn’t seem to go to VAR on Monday both could/would have penalised Sevco, no way that is not going to happen, is it?
MARKIEBHOY
You’re far too nice, how about?… you all thought I was going to say
“ go forth and multiply “
But, just like wee Griff said, and it can’t be beaten
“ Yir teams deid mate “
Classic.
H H. Mick
I would like to see VAR interventions and decisions recorded and published ‘officially’ in the results section of matches – if they can record stats on possession, shots, passes etc. then surely it is a logical extension?
Maybe an official record might make statistical anomalies a wee but more transparent?
TIM MALONE
Good shout, don’t think we’ll ever see an official recording.
But to further your proposal, why don’t Celtic do it ?
Why not ?
H H. Mick
i saw a bit of basketball over the holidays and they had all officials crowded round the TV for ages , deciding on a potential foul and free throws. Ref should look at the screen every time VAR have done a review and informed the ref. keeps the decision in the ref’s hands.
On the idea of explaining/recording the VAR decisions, I think Collum would likely have have used the ‘close proximity and hands within body frame’ as the reason .
If it was, O’Reilly should not have been done vs Ross County and Smith or Hearts would have been done. Bernabei would not have got away with proximity due to his arm being up; same with Smith
SCULLYBHOY on 6TH JANUARY 2023 10:38 AM
Thanks for the excerpt.
I was at Vialli’s first game at Stamford Bridge in ‘96. Went there with my Uni mates and remember the geezers in the pub pre-game with newly shaved heads. I also remember Gary Macallister getting pelters for his penalty miss v England in the Euros in the summer, and a general good atmosphere.
One of our gang that day, also died last year in his 50’s.
RIP Vialli, RIP ‘English Col’
G.Vialli. A top class footballer. May you and English Col rest in peace.
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Melbourne Mick
I should take a long hard look at myself – imagine missing a chance to say they were dead!!!!!
I did put a comment on Mr Piggy Gammons page in the Daily Ranger.
What is the connection between The Loch Ness Monster, The Yehti, Father Christmas and a VAR decision against “Rangers” – Yep, none of them exist. I hope he liked that one.
P.S. For our younger supporters – of course Santa exists, I was just winding up the Hun.