David Martindale has claimed that two of Celtic’s goals in the win over Livingston should have been disallowed.
After drawing a blank in the two previous clashes between the sides Celtic made no mistake in a 3-1 win that restores their three point advantage at the top of the Premiership table.
There were mistakes made by the referee in the goals from Daizen Maeda and Nicky Devlin (OG) but they were early in the play with Livingston having plenty of opportunities to clear their lines before the ball hit the net.
The first goal came from a corner wrongly awarded to Celtic, across the Scottish game this weekend there will have been plenty of similar incidents. A Livingston defender could have prevented Carl Starfield getting a header, Max Stryjek could have pushed the ball away from Daizen Maeda or there could have been a home defender tracking the Celtic striker. It happens.
For the second goal the ball may have struck Tom Rogic on the arm, a Livingston defender got a touch on a cross from James Forrest before Devlin chested the ball into his own net. Again, in almost every match a handball decision won’t be given.
?? “Celtic probably deserved the three points but the two refereeing decisions probably don’t help us”
Livingston manager, David Martindale, is unhappy about Celtic’s first two goals ? pic.twitter.com/KfoiFQiL6R
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) March 6, 2022
I fink for the first two goals if I’m being honest that big refereeing decisions went against us.
And saying that it makes the game a lot harder for us but I fought that Celtic were clinical today. I fought that it was a top, top performance on and off the ball, I fought that they were fantastic in their transitions on and off the ball.
That is probably the Celtic that we are more accustomed to watching. I fought that albeit they were very, very good but I fink that the first two goals gave us a massive mountain to climb and there’s two refereeing decisions that for me are disappointing from my point of view.
You need a wee bit of fortune and luck to be on your side but you need the refereeing decisions to go in your favour as well and I don’t fink that we got them on the first two goals.
I’m not standing here saying that we deserved anything more from the game, I genuinely don’t but I fink that over the piece Celtic deserved the three points if I’m honest but the two refereeing decisions probably don’t help us and give us a massive mountain at 2-0.
Nick Walsh refereed today’s match, Scotland is the highest rated league in UEFA that doesn’t use VAR technology.
As expected…from hoodoo to boo-hoo.
Martindale changed a recently successful formula and got what they deserved…i.e bugger all.
And?, did he miss the other two times his players handled the ball in the box?, apart from the actual one that Celtic got a penalty from, or the fact that their arms were away from the body(in unnatural position), where as Rogic had his arms at his body!.
Makes you wonder the real reason for his whining, as the 400 fouls against Celtic don’t get a mention, couldn’t be deflecting from the cheating in favour of another team , he maybe supports in the league,surely not!?.
Here we have yet another manager who has “unemployment” written all over him.
There is no bigger recipe for unemployment for any coach/manager than failure to see how much your team is outplayed, out thought, outclassed and well outscored.
Apparently it turns out that Celtic have not won a single point this season. All have been due to refereeing errors in Celtic’s favour of course!
Despite these same referees showing extreme bias towards Celtic.
I look forward to the day we actually win on our own merits for once!
We got a break but were in control throughout. Better team won, No mistake about it. He has done well with his team and credit to them but part of that is down to the surface, should not be allowed anywhere near professional leagues.
A drug dealing hun complains about refereeing decisions.
You really couldn’t make this up.
Only in Scoddish Foodbaw.