Dermot Gallagher and Jay Bothroyd had their say in the decision not to award The Rangers a penalty kick against Celtic on December 30th.
Since Celtic’s victory, there has been a complete online meltdown which has been spearheaded by the Ibrox club’s favoured journalists to try and make out like they were somehow cheated.
Dermot Gallagher and Jay Bothroyd both concluded that it wasn’t a penalty and could never have been one even if Willie Collum had deemed Alistair Johnston’s handball as intentional.
Gallagher concluded that while Collum didn’t think the hand ball was enough, even if VAR awarded a penalty the attacking phase of play would then have been checked and Sima was offside so the penalty would not have stood.
This is something very difficult for the hard of thinking or just the disingenuous people to accept.
This will happen when you have a club so used to getting spot kicks for the flimsiest of reasons.
Celtic outplayed their rivals on the day and that appears to be lost in this particular meltdown. It’s good news for Celtic if the Ibrox club think they would have won if they had got an illegitimate penalty.
We have already saw Bobby Madden explain the decision clearly to those disgruntled.
As for the audio being released, we should welcome all audio being released as we’ve been wondering why certain pulls in the box are penalty kicks and why others are not.
I think a lot of this is a smokescreen to distract from the Turnbull decision.
The same linesman, who didn’t raise his flag in the first half, did raise his flag when Turnbull was slipped in by Johnstone and subsequently bundled over by Tavpen. Two hand drove in the back.
This call was a lot closer than the one he missed in the first half. At the match I thought Turnbull was offside by a yard at least but since seeing the still on Sportscene he looks on. The question then moves to why a penalty was not given.
Of course absolutely no analysis of this incident is allowed in Scotland. Linesmen are only supposed to raise their flag when there is clear daylight between the players and there certainly wasn’t in this occasion. So the two questions should be: why did the Linesman raise his flag and more importantly why did the referee not award a penalty ?
Answers on a postcard !!!
Good questions mate… The biggest one for me is when to fcuk will our board come out and openly question the cheating that we can see even more clearly since VAR? Better to do it when we win…
‘How do you want your sour grapes served sir?’.
‘So you want to wait until your grapes have turned totally to vinegar!!!!!?
Ha ha, Ha ha, Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
You bunch of rummy, glass eye’d, Zombie, dob, mofo’z.