Hibs boss Lee Johnson calls out the penalty silence of the Scottish media

Hibs boss Lee Johnson called out the silence of the Scottish media after his side were denied a penalty at Ibrox last night.

Referee Nick Walsh, in charge of the Edinburgh side for the third successive time at Ibrox, should have noticed how James Sands raised his left arm to get an early touch to a dangerous high ball into the penalty box.

VAR Alan Tait has absolutely no excuse, he had multiple camera angles to call on, not just those selected by the Sky Sports producer, but chose not to alert Walsh to take a look at the pitch-side monitor.

MDINGWALL will have media access to the match on January 2 with Celtic’s Communications Manager Iain Jamieson serving up club employees for the gallery drawn from Ibrox fan media and on-message mainstream outlets.

A Google search for ‘Lee Johnson, penalty, Rangers’ will draw a blank.

After the penalty incident play continued, the home-side scored twice in a five minute spell to claim the points that gave new boss Micky Beale the start that he needed. The result that Scottish football required.

Johnson has a legitimate complaint about the Scottish media not wanting to ask about a pivotal decision that denied his side the chance to go 3-1 in front against a nervy home-side.

The former Bristol City boss could soon be out of a job with Hibs a short and significant blot on his CV.

His first port of call about the issue should be SFA President and Hibs director Rod Petrie, someone that is very personally involved in the Continuation Lie and building up the O** F*** myth.

Petrie is as heavily conflicted as Campbell Ogilvie, Stewart Regan, Neil Doncaster and Peter Lawwell with the events of 2012. While any of them are still involved in Scottish football Crawford Allan and his match officials will continue to deliver ‘puzzling’ decisions.

In normal circumstances Walsh could be discounted from being put in charge of the Glasgow derby on January 2 but having been put in charge of 50% of SPFL matches at Ibrox this season that possibility can’t be discounted.

The other contenders are Willie Collum, John Beaton, Kevin Clancy or Steven McLean to referee the derby with Andrew Dallas expected to be on VAR duty.

At the 2021 Celtic AGM Ian Bankier expressed his deep concern about Walsh, at this year’s AGM Michael Nicholson explained how the CCTV at Ibrox wasn’t working when glass appeared at half-time in the goalmouth that Joe Hart was to guard in the second half.