Match Thread [FT] Rangers 2 (Kent 47; Tavernier pen 52) - 2 Celtic

[Uilleam 5,487]

Just now, buster. said:

It hit his fcuking hand, get over it but apparently the IFAB rules are in our favour 😁

It's still moot. 

The situation is similar to an appeal by a fielder for a boot sole level catch at cricket. 

[buster. 4,808]

1 minute ago, Uilleam said:

It's still moot. 

The situation is similar to an appeal by a fielder for a boot sole level catch at cricket. 

Oh no it is not......😄

[buster. 4,808]

If CFC go to the SFA (as per press headline) without a handball to stand on......can we get to see the correspondence 😁

[Gonzo79 13,750]

If they're having a meeting about rules and how the refs apply them, other clubs will have to be represented too?

 

We and the press give their paranoia too much coverage.  All it really warrants is a wee chuckle and a swift telling off.

[Uilleam 5,487]

4 minutes ago, buster. said:

If CFC go to the SFA (as per press headline) without a handball to stand on......can we get to see the correspondence 😁

Downtrodden fc demands to meet with the SFA on the matter of VAR, presumably to try to ensure that the Laws of the Game may be disapplied whenever such derogation would be to its advantage.

 

The sickening thing is that it may get its way.

 

The meeting, of course, and in line with Scottish Administration policy and practice, will remain unminuted. 

[Devil's advocaat 1,285]

1 hour ago, Uilleam said:

There are too many problems with depth of field, and angle of the shot for the photograph to be definitive.  It's a  2 dimensional representation of  3 dimensional situation.

Absolutely. I've seen pics taken from Cathkin with a long lens that make Ben Lomond look as if it towers over the city. 

 

Stills can be very easily manipulated.

[buster. 4,808]

2 hours ago, Gonzo79 said:

If they're having a meeting about rules and how the refs apply them, other clubs will have to be represented too?

 

We and the press give their paranoia too much coverage.  All it really warrants is a wee chuckle and a swift telling off.

Partly it will be to appease their support.

Partly to make a noise and influence refs.

 

I recall, when the combative war criminal John Reid was their hands-on chairman, they sent a video to the SFA regards decisions they were unhappy about. I think it may have been in Feburary 2010 when we were winning the league under Walter Smith.....Under the surface the crowds at Parkheid were significantly down and they decided on Mission Conflict to get the support onside. The extension of that was the springtime appointment of Neil Lennon.

 

Followed by a summer tour of various supporters clubs by Lennon and Lawwell, where they told the hordes that conflict would be stepped up if they didn't get their way.......Later in the same year there was DougieGate. Full blown warfare, rallying the hordes. Crowds increased significantly.

 

They completely forgot to mention bad decisions that benefitted them in a previous season that they had won the league. It was one after another, I recall an late Aberdeen equaliser at the Midden being ruled out for nothing and an opening goal for them against Falkirk (IIRC) punched into the net, etc. etc.

 

Edit

Might have years mixed up but points stand.

 

https://www.independent.co.uk/sport/football/scottish/referee-admits-blunder-in-ruling-out-aberdeen-goal-813899.html

 

The referee Iain Brines has admitted he wrongly disallowed the goal that could have finished Celtic's title challenge.

 

Brines penalised Aberdeen's Zander Diamond for handball seconds before the defender fired the ball into the top corner of the net for what he thought was a last-gasp equaliser at Celtic Park on Saturday. Instead Celtic moved top of the Scottish Premier League with a 1-0 victory.

 

 

Edited January 4, 2023 by buster.

[CammyF 6,884]

Celtic don't want VAR in Scottish Football (and never have).

 

From the 1st VAR game involving them (Hearts away), their patsies in the press have slagged and ridiculed VAR and officials. Now that there is sufficient noise around, this is the beginning of Celtics play to have VAR scrapped. 

 

Liewell back in the fold, just in time to drum up support from other clubs and before you know it, VAR will consigned to the bin. 

[buster. 4,808]

20 minutes ago, CammyF said:

Celtic don't want VAR in Scottish Football (and never have).

 

From the 1st VAR game involving them (Hearts away), their patsies in the press have slagged and ridiculed VAR and officials. Now that there is sufficient noise around, this is the beginning of Celtics play to have VAR scrapped. 

 

Liewell back in the fold, just in time to drum up support from other clubs and before you know it, VAR will consigned to the bin. 

VAR is going no-where unless one day it was the financial cost of it that couldn't be supported.

[CammyF 6,884]

49 minutes ago, buster. said:

VAR is going no-where unless one day it was the financial cost of it that couldn't be supported.

As we've seen on many occasions Celtic tend to get what they want (early call of league, Cinch deal, no investigation into running of the game). If they want rid of VAR, they'll find a way to get rid of VAR.