A new image has shown just how close David Turnbull came to serious injury at Tannadice yesterday.
Taking the ball forward on the left wing the midfielder felt the full body-weight of Callum Butcher come crashing through his lower leg, as the picture shows the impact looks horrific.
With his leg bent at the knee the Dundee United man was able to get added impact as he cleaned out his opponent.
Don Robertson and his assistant David Roome both had clear uninterrupted views of the incident. How they come up with an outcome of yellow card really needs explaining.
An offside call, right or wrong, doesn’t put the career of any player at risk, yesterday there was a serious risk to the leg of Turnbull.
Subconsciously every player in Scotland will have noted what happened, it seems that it is almost impossible to get a straight red card in this country meaning that further challenges like Butcher’s are more likely.
This angle is the worst leg breaker and not a red card a mean how many more tackles afore one of our bhoys gets a career ending injury that’s beyond a shocker pic.twitter.com/TO87myktOh
— bhoy 1973 (@1973Bhoy) December 5, 2021
Compliance officer take note…..
— tommy gaughan (@gaughan_tommy) December 5, 2021
Is the ref gonnae come out like Madden and say he got this one wrong??..nope didn’t think so
— moraig campbell (@moraigcampbell) December 6, 2021
Our @CelticFC board should be coming out screaming about this!! We all know the @ScottishFA is corrupt but our board are pathetic cowards for not calling this out!
— Alan McGrane ?? ?? (@AlanKerrMcGrane) December 5, 2021
@ScottishFA are on the hook for health & safety in the workplace. Also, officials & referees elsewhere have gone to prison for match fixing. @UEFA please take direct control of our game
— Still Sniggerin’ at SevcoFC (@007bhoy) December 5, 2021
Unbelievable… fuchs in 1st game too
— Tam Hughes (@TamHughes243017) December 5, 2021
It needs to be called out. I hope Ange mentions it this week,
— Mick (@7Beggers) December 5, 2021
Wonder how it feels to be a player in our squad at the minute knowing these tackles are likely to go unpunished?
— Sam Burns (@Samburns90) December 5, 2021
This kind of assault outside on the street would be a crime by law, and punishable by law, yet our players have to suffer this on a pitch in front of thousands of witnesses week in and week out and the HUN refs turn a blind eye, it’s shamefull, no doubt the ref would have been down the Masons hall rolling up his trouser leg and shirt sleeve giving dodgy hand shakes all night. It makes me cringe.
It’s a sad day when if the fans can this horrendous tackle that could have ended David’s career, surely the sfa should take action as they surely will have seen this horrendous piece of thuggery, if nothing is done about it by the corrupt shower that run football in Scotland then Celtic must surely ask why they have not acted.