Having already overruled erroneous officials on two occasions, yesterday’s Video Assistant Referee could bear no more and declined to confirm the ball struck Joe Newell’s arm before he scored for Hibernian.
Bad though that decision was, it was nothing on the second half incident when a penalty was not awarded to Celtic. Josh Campbell, who was already on a yellow card, shoved Benjamin Nygren off the field with both hands inside the box. It was a stonewall penalty and a similar incident to the foul given against Sebastian Tounekti which led to the Hibs equaliser. Campbell should have received a second yellow, reducing Hibs to 9 men for the second week running.
The VAR team was not prepared to go there. They could do nothing about Celtic’s onside goal. Jamie McGrath’s studs to the shin of Alistair Johnston was equally undeniable. A line was drawn, Celtic were getting no more.
This is how it is going to be between now and the end of the league campaign. I predict Celtic will get a soft penalty in the Scottish Cup Final, “proof” that these things even themselves out. In the league, anything that can be overlooked will be overlooked. You know decisions against Celtic are laughable when even Kris Boyd confirms it.
Celtic dominated the encounter even before the 21st minute red card, but failed to test stand-in keeper Jordan Smith often enough. The return to the starting line-up of Alistair Johnston brought the equaliser. The fullback timed his run and cross perfectly, leaving Daizen Maeda the simplest of tap-ins.
From then until late in the second half, Celtic fans were thinking, “When’s he going to bring on Kelechi?” Our 29-year-old striker is by the length of the M8 between Edinburgh and Glasgow the most talented player in Scotland, who looks like he is playing against schoolboys. Getting the best out of him over the next three games will determine the outcome of the league.
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To paraphrase Yoda, ” Win or not win – no try”
And to quote William Munny, ” Deserve’s got nothing to do with it. “
If Hearts win the league, they will almost certainly end up in the Europa league after a quick exit from the CL qualifiers. They will not get anywhere near to us (or r2ngers) when it comes to revenue.
Next season should see a quick return to normal service IF our club actually puts in place the necessary changes. Without it, the tens of millions extra we have in the bank and the millions in extra evenue counts for little. We all know this is self inflicted.
Fassreifen @ 8:04 am,
The poker analogy is literally a very good point…
GlassTwoThirdsFull @ 9:19 am,
Quite…
Hail Hail
Anybody who knows anything about football knows this……how difficult it is to predict football results, and even moreso how difficult it is to predict scorecasts….and yet despite that we have some on here predicting what is going to happen next season. Not Saturday Night/Sunday Morning……but next season…..
Somebody once stated that ‘ a week is a long time in politics’ well it can be an even longer time in football.
Forget about next season….it does not exist. Don’t keep telling us what we can’t do when we need to focus on what we can do. Which is score a couple of goals more than Hearts before they come to Celtic Park for a game I now truly hope is one where both teams and both clubs have a realistic chance of becoming Champions.
YeGottaRollWithItCSC
An Dun
Why all this negativity. You post as if it’s all over and Hearts and Bloom have won the League. I thought there’s still three games to be played yet for each team with Hearts having to come to Celtic to ic Park on the last day.
Keep The Faith! We will win this League.
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Martin up on TalkSport now…..
Thats the spirit Sadies bhoy.
HH
Seems Welsh is ref on Sunday with Beathun on VAR. If so, neither should be anywhere near this game.
Ave Ave
new article posted.