Motherwell coach calls for Celtic goal at St Mirren to be disallowed

Richard Foster has claimed that Celtic’s second goal against St Mirren should have been disallowed for handball against Alistair Johnston.

Aaron Mooy’s free kick to the back post was met by the Canadian who appeared to head the ball down onto the base of Mark O’Hara’s back with the ball bouncing into the net.

Last week Motherwell announced that Foster was taking over as the Head of Coaching at their Academy but it seems that he will be continuing with his media career which saw him at Ibrox on Saturday for the visit of Kilmarnock.

Monday morning requires a VAR review on the BBC Scotland website with Foster discussing the weekend incidents alongside former referee Stuart Dougal.

CLICK HERE to view with Johnston goal discussed at 4 minutes 30 seconds.

FOSTER: On first viewing it probably looks like he has headed the ball down and onto the defenders back and into the net, and while the pictures are not conclusive it does appear to hit his right arm, he probably heads it down onto his right arm, that takes it net. However, like I say VAR didn’t intervene there because, I don’t imagine that it is a clear and obvious error or it is inconclusive.

DOUGAL: I think that, that for me I think would be the key area why VAR wouldn’t get the referee involved again. If the picture was as clear as you believe it to be, and there is an arm used there then most match officials, in fact all match officials know that a goal cannot be allowed to stand if it has hit the arm accidentally or otherwise.

With the limited talented pool in Scotland there seems to be regular overlap of current football employees with the media.

In England it is virtually unheard of with all of the leading media pundits completely independent of any club.