Sky Sports pundit and former referee Dermot Gallagher has weighed into the Leigh Griffiths debate on whether the player should’ve seen red for a potential stamp.

The violins have been out since Celtic won 4-1 against Hamilton pulling seven points clear of their nearest rivals. It’s not surprise they’re currently making noise – you can smell the fear as their team stutter in the SPFL.

But down to the actual incident itself. Dermot makes the very valid point that once Leigh’s foot has been grabbed and he’s off balance it has to come back down somewhere.

The former whistler then put it down to only Leigh knows if his foot coming down on Woods was meant.

Either way there’s ambiguity in the incident and enough that it simply under no circumstance can be viewed as an out and out violent stamp.

“Griffiths is the only person who will know what his intent was, whether he can get out of the way or whether he can’t,” Gallagher told Sky Sports News.

“When he brings his foot down, he’s got to bring it down somewhere. Is he toppling over? I don’t know, only he knows.”

Leigh was unlucky not to get on the score line but won Celtic the free-kick which would lead to Eddy’s equaliser.

The front man has been enjoying a run in the first team for the first time in over a year.

1 COMMENT

  1. The man’s absoloutly spot on and I had to laugh at mccoists opinion on it because I’ll tell ya why lol he said at first look I didn’t think it was a red card but after watching it again this that and the other he should’ve been sent off well the refs not got the ability to watch it again and I presume the ref thought at first look the same as he did at first look it wasent a red no makes me laugh the refs always get a hard time of it but all these people saying desisions are wrong have the benifit of replays at the time they haven’t so until they have you just have to take the good with the bad because it does even out at the end of a season I really do believe that

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