Alan Muir will referee Saturday’s Premiership match between Hearts and Ross County at Tynecastle.
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At Fir Park Celtic were denied two clear penalties which could well have resulted in red cards if the laws of the game had been followed, neither incident was borderline or required additional cameras or slow motion to highlight the fouls committed.
Fortunately Celtic took all three points from the match which took some of the spotlight off the performance of the referee and his assistant on the main stand.
Saturday’s match at Tynecastle will be Muir’s fourth Premiershi[p appointment of the season.
Celtic’s match on Sunday will be refereed by Craig Thomson whose most recent hoops fixture was the controversial defeat from Aberdeen at Pittodrie last month.
Thomson felt that Andrew Considine’s foul on Leigh Griffiths eight yards from goal only merited a yellow card despite Celtic’s top scorer being in a position to shoot at goal.
Before taking charge of that match Thomson will be the man in the middle for tomorrow’s Juventus v Borusia Monchengladbach tie in the Champions League with Steven McLean and Kevin Clancy as additional assistants behind the goal.
Next week’s Hearts v Celtic League Cup tie will be refereed by John Beaton who has already refereed two Celtic matches this season, the Premiership wins over Partick Thistle and St Johnstone. Russian officials will be in charge of the Molde v Celtic Europa League tie.
Lisbon Lion John Fallon will be signing copies of his book ‘Keeping in Paradise’ in the Celtic Club, London Road before Sunday’s match.
Beside him … and behind us. Without even the sourtesy of a reach around.
The Blazers have got to back – up Alan Muir because it is their orders he is obeying.! Also he has to obey his “lodges” orders of being left out in the cold if he (or any other of their corrupt counterparts)dare give Celtic a correct decision . The “stoshie” going on about the rugby decision leaves me way behind.! Correct me if I am wrong but these scribes that are screaming “blue murder ” are the same scribes who tell Celtic they are ” honest mistakes ” when penalty after penalty is denied too us. Funny old game this when. you report about Celtic and the funny shaped ball game. What was said in the Bible “scribes and vagabonds”?… Step forward Scottish press reporters.!!!
Can I remind the high heid yins at our Club….
Rangers (IL) complained to the SFA about referee Jim Callaghan’s performance in an Old Firm game in 1969 and got him suspended for eight matches.
What are we doing about it Celtic…?
Correctamundo, how bad has it got to get before Lawwell sticks his head above the parapet, is he waiting until we lose via an incompetents incompetence/bias? If that’s true then it will sound like sour grapes FFS! I seem to remember Smith and Sleekit kicking up fck about a ref with an Irishy sounding name who was lambasted from all MSM cos he (rightly) ruled out a Deidco goal.
The Celtic Board are “big scaredy cats” and the Authorities take advantage of this.
And he never refereed another top flight match.
When Celtic ‘fielded’ the Lisbon Lions for the last time, years after that 1969 game, Jim Callaghan was the referee.
The suits will do nothing about it Mike, they are there for themselves and lining their pockets.
It’s just us, the support who have to suffer these blatantly bias decisions.
It’s always been the same.
The “old suits” got a lot wrong in their day Monti….but they stood up for the Club when it was needed.
Today’s mob are a disgrace…and they wonder why numbers are falling.
I wonder if Joe’s had a reply from Regan on this one.
Won’t hold my breath.
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I agree the Old Board did stand up for the Celtic supporters, but Lawell and Desmond and are a Disgrace, (sadly I’m ashamed of the present Celtic )
Hear hear.
No mention on here of the attention seeking little boys of the gunge brigade and mothercare !
Will the sons of tooths idols get a penalty in that whatever cup it’s called,tonight,all I will say it’s highly likely………………..
The SFA will do everything possible to get the huns back in the premiership, as well as trying to stop Celtic hitting 10 in a row. Muir and several others will do all they can to do that.
Celtic should seek out what clubs want change in our game, and then challenge the bigoted brotherhood !
HH
James O Hare and Kevin O Donnell…….guess who got them removed from the list.
Must have been an interesting debriefing with the ref supervisor on Monday morning for brother Muir.
OK Alan let’s roll the video and you can reply to my questions about the decisions you made.
Q: very meaty challenge there in the first few minutes, could actually have been a red card, yet you didn’t even show a yellow.
A: sorry, missed that one, all happened a bit too quickly for me.
Q: oops, that’s another bad challenge on the Celtic player, looks as if a yellow was merited.
A: sorry, missed that one entirely.
Q: Brown through on goal about to pull the trigger, wiped out by the Well defender, looks like a stone wall pen to me.
A: Are you taking the p*ss, it’s Celtic, anyway I was unsighted.
Q: Well defender’s just armed the ball away just before Ciftci puts it in the net. Have to say Def pen and a red card.
A: oh come on, that would have left the Well with no chance of staying in the match. Just as well I didn’t see that either, could have left me in a tricky position.
OK Alan, excellent answers, you played a blinder. I’ve given you maximum marks, keep up the good work, definitely our Go To Man when it comes to those fenian b’s