The incidents may be four and a half years apart but the Laws of the Game haven’t changed.
From the first whistle to the last they stay the same. Whether Barrie Mackay kicks Tony Ralston on the shin in the second minute or Adam Montgomery tackles Gary Mackay-Steven in the 85th minute nothing changes.
In April 2016 Celtic fans first became aware of Donald Robertson. In a low key match away to Ross County Brendan Rodgers’ squad were on their way to a 2-1 victory when the man with the whistle decided to intervene.
With 89 minutes on the clock County forward Alex Shalk didn’t even both running into Erik Sviatchenko, with the Dane more than a yard away he threw himself to the ground with Robertson obliging by pointing to the penalty spot
Robertson also had time to send off Scott Brown.
From the same referee that thought Butcher’s attack on Turnbull was a booking. https://t.co/Jj9lqHugQy
— Joe McHugh (@videocelts) December 6, 2021
Wonder what Crawford Allan will say about this. pic.twitter.com/3HXII11bZC
— The Ayrshire Separatist. (@DanielJMath1) December 5, 2021
Yesterday at Tannadice, the man that awarded a penalty for Schalk’s dive watched Callum Butcher apply his full bodyweight onto David Turnbull. Robertson decided to award a yellow card.
Well our manager should just take our players off the pitch because everyone in that ground seen that even the 4th official but yet again honest mistake buy 4 officials so why have 4 when they cant do there job right dirty corrupt scumbags.
Will var make any difference as we will have the same people making the decisions if its a goal offside red card etc who will be monitoring the matches all from the corrupt sfa.regarding the tackle against turnbull straight red no ifs or buts these refs seem to have terrible eye sight when they manage celtic matches or is that they are just cheats has being going on for to long on Scotland all down to the sfa corruption.
I agree John. if there is any damage take the player and the ref and his colleagues to court, they are there to provide fair control. If the ref claims to be blind the two lines men and the fourth official are responsible. if none see an incident, none of them should get another game to run. Get back wages and any specialist treatment costs from them personally. Any employer is legally bound to provide health and safety to their staff.
This is not something new that’s happening. The SFA and the referees have been corrupt for at least 30 years. If you look back at all the injustices that Celtic football club have had to put up with. I am very very surprised we have not walked off the park before now.
The SFA is jobs for the boys and when Celtic were winning The quadruple treble they really should have called them out. They even tried to cheat them during those years.
All referees should be informing the SFA. Which team there alliance is to. Simple as that. It works in English football