Former referee Des Roache has called out Nick Walsh and Alan Muir over their refusal to award Hibs a penalty at Ibrox.
Soon after the half-time break, with the Edinburgh side leading 2-1 a high ball into the penalty box panicked James Sands into raising his arm to prevent the ball from reaching Kevin Nisbet.
It looked a straightforward decision but the SFA tag-team decided to leave it to each other with play continuing without the award of a penalty.
Within 20 minutes Micky Beale’s side scored twice and all was well in Scottish football with Sky Sports and the authorities getting the result they required.
Comparing that penalty incident with others Roache told The Sun:
That incident in isolation, for me, in the olden days is not a handball because he’s making a genuine attempt to keep his eye on the ball and looking to play the ball – and it has struck him.
But as we’ve seen numerous times this year, intent to play the ball is no longer in the law and the law states if the ball strikes your hand or arm then you may be penalised.
We’ve seen them given. We saw one at Celtic v Dundee United when Alessandro Bernabei jumped to head the ball and the penalty was given.
Last night yes the ball has hit [Sands] and the ball is below the ‘t-shirt line’ but play has allowed to continue and it hasn’t been penalised.
Crawford Allan, Ian Maxwell and SFA President Rod Petrie haven’t commented on the incident.
One was a penalty, one wasn’t
VAR working exactly as it was intended in Scotland pic.twitter.com/gYIYQyngcR— J (@J_113CSC) December 15, 2022
As I said before we get our own back on those cheating scum bastards at Hampden by making sure Scotland never qualify or play at any major tournaments ever again,and starve the fat bastards at Hampden of any cash.
the decisions at tynecastle and motherwell were a disgrace the excuses were embarrassing and pathetic but the biggest disgrace in all this shambles is the celtic board.
Why would they comment?
After all according to them “VAR is doing exactly what it was supposed to do”.