The Laws of the Game are the same the world over but in Scotland you will find radically different interpretations.
Firstly there is no ‘last man’ law but if you deny your opponents a goalscoring opportunity the punishment is a red card. There is no guidance on distance, no allowance for ability, or lack of, but if you deny an opponents a chance to score the punishment is the same.
Crawford Allan supervises match officials at the SFA, he keeps everyone upto date with the annual changes to interpretation from FIFA.
Spot the difference ???? pic.twitter.com/iodSbVlMcX
— Abada-cadabra (@ThePundit_) October 2, 2022
Yesterday John Beaton put in exactly the sort of display that fans have come to expect. At every opportunity he tries to slow the game down, almost every time a Motherwell player was tackled a foul was given, 30-60 seconds eaten up while Liam Kelly wasted time from the first whistle. No added time was played at the end of the first half.
Into the second half Beaton chose to ignore a clear handball that would have given Celtic a penalty and resulted in a second yellow card for Ricki Lamie, Beaton had a clear view as did his assistant.
A two goal cushion against 10 men presents a very different closing 20 minutes, Beaton’s decision kept the game alive with the consequences realised in the 89th minute when Callum McGregor clashed with Ross Tierney. Beaton was on the scene straight away, red card out and suddenly Motherwell’s time wasting was rewarded with five minutes of stoppage time.
Last month Don Robertson was presented with a similar scenario when Ross County were at Ibrox. Midway through the first half with the match goal-less Jordy Hiwula was hauled to the ground by the already booked James Sands. Robertson chose not to notice the incident, Sands stayed on the park, picking up a bonus with his side winning 4-0.
Since Celtic sat on their hands over Steven McLean’s refusal to award a penalty and send off Josh Meekings in the 2015 Scottish Cup semi-final against Inveness Caley Thistle the club has been a hostage to honest mistakes.
A year later McLean was rewarded with the Scottish Cup Final appointment. Kevin Clancy, Robertson, Willie Collum, Nick Walsh, Bobby Madden and others know that mistakes in Celtic matches will retain their place on the rota for top matches.
Once again this week the Celtic board will say nothing, any contact with the SFA brings a reminder of whose fat fIngerprints are all over the 2012 Five Way Agreement. The last thing that the Celtic board want is for that document to see the light of day.
Get all association Celtic supporters to propose a no confidence vote on all referee’s in Scotland .
Contact John Paul Celtic’s go to guy will the board back the supporters or not.
We know the answer
If Celtic player’s get harmed badly and continuously wrong and important decisions wrong then take the board to task.
We the Celtic supporters have no confidence in this board at present and are doing nothing in a rigged game.
Failure to do nothing will result in talking with our integrity intact morals and principles ethos will wake away from a rigged game from top to bottom.
As Celtic supporters faithful through and through We have it’s player’s interests at heart the Clubs principles at the forefront and will not support blatant cheating corruption and lies blatantly everyone can see.
Celtic supporters have the best interests for all at the club apart from cash greedy fat cats board members.
Well its about time the fans started boycotting our game and let everyone know whats happening in the Scottish game dirty corrupt scumbags the lot of them including our board get them out now before its to late.
I applaud you for trying to put pressure on Celtic’s board to stand up for our club. I can’t understand their failure to do this. Are they really Celtic fans or just charlatans pretending to be? If they won’t put pressure on the spfl over refs can fans of all clubs not put pressure on for refs to come clean on who they support so we try to have an honest game?
Editor: Managing 50% of the O** F*** is much easier than trying to progress the club into the 21st century and punching our weight or more in Europe. See Sydney Super Cup for boardroom vision.
As the cash cow for our club when will the the supporters unite and take these charlatan’s to task enough is enough this board are complicit in the biggest scandal to hit Scottish football ever and through their betrayal and silence let them explain why they have remained silent is it guilt or fear or both? Us supporter’s deserve the truth ?????
Lawwell sold us our, end of!
While Celtic plc continue to rake in profits to a full house and all that entails why should they make things hard for themselves by upsetting the gravy train
As I said before why can’t this be disclosed as Freedom of Information Act.
Are we living in Scotland or Russia.
As I keep pointing out. The SFA are a Private Limited Company as far as the Law is concerned and not subject to FOI.
FOI Législation was introduced to prevent Public Bodies from hiding behind secrecy when they covered up malfeasance and mal administration.
It was introduced in the UK unwillingly. EU law forced Westminster to step into line. It will be one of the next defences the ordinary punter has recourse to that will be overturned along with the erosion or repeal of Human Rights Legislation.