Justice Done? St Johnstone Goal Should Never Have Stood Claims Former Ref

Former referee Charlie Richmond believes Celtic’s late dramatic winner never should have happened, because St Johnstone’s goal should NOT have stood.

The Perthshire side equalised in extra time when a ball was floated into the box and Celtic failed to clear the ball. However, Richmond spotted an infringement during the play when Andrew Considine had a hold of Giakoumakis shirt which stopped him from defending the cross.

“He’s (Considine) got a hold of his shirt,” Richmond told Football Scotland.

“It’s not a refereeing error because he can’t see it. It’s really difficult to spot during the general flow of the game.

“But the camera angles will pick that up. The question is whether the holding of the jersey impedes the player from jumping to head the ball away.

“And I think it does. That would be flagged by VAR because there’s been an infringement in the scoring of a goal.”

Instead of dwelling on it, Giakoumakis and his Celtic teammates went up the park and scored a winner around a minute later to make sure of all three points in the end.

Richmond is absolutely correct, the goal shouldn’t have stood and VAR would’ve called for the goal to be chopped off.

VAR is very close to being implemented into Scottish football, we could be weeks away from the technology coming in. If anyone thinks it’s going to be a silver bullet when it comes to controversial decisions, they haven’t been paying attention elsewhere.