ALLY McCoist has branded the decision to award a penalty AGAINST Celtic as ‘scandalous’ after the bhoys felt the wrath of an incredibly harsh VAR decision.
The incident happened, and the game moved on before things suddenly stopped. The screens inside Celtic Park revealed a potential handball was being looked at.
This miffed Celtic players, and Dundee Utd boys weren’t sure themselves.
After just under 5 minutes of deliberation, they awarded a penalty for Bernabei handling the ball in the box.
The Celtic defender jumped up and looked the other way when the ball struck his hand. The Argentine defender even got a yellow card for his troubles.
It was something Ange picked up on after the game and asked is just any ball hitting of a hand is now considered a penalty.
Not surprisingly, Kris Boyd believed it WAS a penalty. However, Ally shot him down for utter nonsense and believes the game is gone if that’s considered a penalty.
McCoist said live on Sky Sports: “Can I bring a bit of sanity into this?
“If we’re giving penalties for that, the game is gone.
“Some of the decisions we’ve seen for hand balls are absolutely scandalous.”
The handball rule needs to be looked at. An unnatural position is considered when arms arent by the player’s sides. Both Bernaebi and Fletcher have their arms up because they naturally come out when you’re in the air to give you balance.
Celtic won the game 4-2 in the end. A very late scare from Dundee Utd prompted the Champions into action.
Its harsh but his arm is in an unnatural position and prevented the ball from heading goalwards so they were always going to award a penalty, but to book him for it was ridiculous as it looks completely accidental!
Giakoumakis was kicked studs first to the groin area, he went down, play went on, then VAR intervened, the Dundee Utd culprit looked visibly bricking himself knowing to expect at least a yellow possibly red card, but then the ref waves play on and that was that!?
In fairness it didn’t look intentional and the Utd player did try pull out of the challenge last second, but as we seen with Berni’s penalty, accident or not its still a foul; how a professional panel of VAR football rules experts can look at that incident and not award Celtic a freekick at the very least is astonishing