It seems that the phrase ‘the interpretation of the match referee’ is becoming increasingly relevent this season.
Effectively it is a get-out that allows anything to go with two comparable incidents in the same match resulting in very different decisions being made.
Livingston have been on the receiving end as much as anyone, starting back on Day 1 of the season when Don Robertson set the tome for the season.
A quick push by John Lundstram in the penalty box went unpunished, later on in the match Robertson was back to his eagle-eyed best when he picked up on routine contact on Connor Goldson to blow early before the ball was headed into the net.
Livingston v Rangers incidents from 3 league games this season:
Disallowed goal.
No penalty.
Upgrade from yellow to red.
Conceded penalty.
Red card.
No penalty. pic.twitter.com/0jU0o3UmcW— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) February 19, 2023
At Ibrox in November VAR was in play as David Munro opted to look at the monitor to send off Morgan Boyes with the 10 men of Livi losing a stoppage time equaliser.
On Saturday David Dickinson and Andrew Dallas used selective vision to overlook Borna Barisic hanging onto Jon Nouble then picking out jersey pulling on Alfredo Morelos triggered by a push by the Colombian.
So what we know the cheating goes we are the biggest part of it as we anticipate in it every single week by still showing up for games to the benefit of one klub,GET USED TO IT.
Lol at all the MUGS o here complaining all the time after every game when decisions go against us but sevco are BLATANTLY CHEATING and we sit back at the back of the bus and alow.
As I said before te cup final for next weekend is over Walsh and Beaton will see to that and especially after that baner display last weekend,they will get their revenge back on our fans for how they described Douglas Toss.
Practically every decision the referee has to make is “Open To Interpretation” and all a referee has to do is not make a decision he could have make for it to become “An Honest Mistake”. Little can ever be done about it afterwards unless you played all the games again over and over until you had a game where there were “No Honest Mistakes” in the game. Not very practical.
And so the team which relies on “Honest Mistakes” to go their way has an advantage over a team which doesn’t!
And so a team may be prepared in a way which relies on “Honest Mistakes” or “Referee’s Decisions” to go THEIR way!
If that the kind of team you follow, then that is up to you. Just don’t start complaining when you don’t get all the “Honest Mistakes” that you think you should have had and didn’t get!