Viewers to the Motherwell v Hibs Scottish Cup tie were given an early shock by referee Willie Collum.Â
In the second minute of the match Bevis Mugabe lunged at Josh Doig as the Hibs player passed the ball with the full force of the defender sending Doig crashing to the ground. Celtic fans are very familiar with that sort of challenge.Â
A straight red card or an early red card are almost unknown in Scottish football, sometimes it appears that the first foul, regardless of severity, results in a stern word of warning while the first 10 minutes of a match have a more lenient set of Laws applied.Â
Did Motherewell’s Bevis Mugabi deserve a first-minute red card for this challenge?
Watch the incident ?? pic.twitter.com/sNtWVQk0UF
— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) March 13, 2022
In December David Turnbull was the victim of a far more dangerous attack from Calum Butcher, referee Don Robertson felt that it was only worth a yellow card to the Dundee United midfielder. The SFA retrospectively upgraded to a red card and three match ban.Â
A month later Mouhamed Niang delivered a brutal assault on Yosuke Guchi’s ankle. Again Robertson was the referee, again a yellow card was produced with the SFA returning to upgrade it to a red with the Celtic midfielder out of action for one month.Â
Wonder what Crawford Allan will say about this. pic.twitter.com/3HXII11bZC
— The Ayrshire Separatist. (@DanielJMath1) December 5, 2021
Silly tackle there was no need for it lol 1 min into the game he’s asking too get sent of
— brian mcgiugan (@mcgiugan) March 14, 2022
Straight red, late wreckless lunge only lucky Doig’s foot wasn’t grounded or could of broke his ankle
— Wayne Clark (@waynethehibee) March 13, 2022
It was a terrible challenge in Scotland you do see yellows or reds for these so there is an inconsistency I’ll admit there was one later on in the same game that looked bad and got the yellow ????
— Pete Moyes ?? (@OfficialMoyes94) March 13, 2022
100% deserved red card he has had it coming for a long time, guy is just a thug so happy that supposedly interest from Celtic never went any further certainly not good enough to play for us this seems to be the way he plays put boot in first to try and intimidate players
If you give the referee a decision to make there’s always the chance you could walk. I thought Kenny Miller got it wrong, in my opinion it was reckless and his studs were showing it was a straight red all day long. Josh Doig was lucky his leg wasn’t planted or it could’ve been a lot worse.
Theirs only 1 club in Scottish football that benefits from refs is sevco 5088 morelos always kicking out and now we have mr kent and tavawanker diving about for penaltys refs point to the spot straight away were as no other clubs seem toget penalties as much as sevco but cheats never won just ask Murray about his EBT SIDELETTERS EH.