It was the ultimate case of irony when Celtic scored at Hampden within 10 seconds of John Beaton allowing Nico Raskin to smash into Matt O’Riley with a body-check.
Willie Collum’s stand in has a well established pattern of leniency when it comes to attacking Celtic players as Kieran Tierney, David Turnbull, Yosuke Ideguchi and many more have suffered from.
Sticking with that policy John Lundstram got off with a few stern words in the opening minutes at Hampden after he tried to end Kyogo Furuhashi’s involvement at the first opportunity.
Three minutes from half time Raskin, Ryan Kent, Borna Barisic and Ben Davies all switched off expecting a Celtic foul, two touches from Daizen Maeda and the brazen head of Jota was putting Ange Postecoglou’s side in front.
Robertson must have felt gutted seeing his decision back-fire, on the touchline John Beaton knew exactly how his refereeing colleague was feeling.
Has a very John Beaton feel about it. https://t.co/kWQipCsnd0 pic.twitter.com/xzBdCrcNn1
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) May 1, 2023
“IT’S JOTA!” ?@CelticFC catch Rangers sleeping and they strike first in the #ScottishCup semi-final ?#TheRaceTo8 pic.twitter.com/qLBp5YBAQ5
— Viaplay Sports UK (@ViaplaySportsUK) April 30, 2023
Been going on for as long, while Sevco players collapse at will with free kicks awarded as routine
Paranoia, Robertson was the guy with the whistle, not Beaton, who didn’t award us an obvious free kick for the challenge on O’ Reilly. His glaring denial came back to haunt him, he probably didn’t sleep last night having nightmares over his assist for Maeda to put it on a plate for Jota. Roll on June 3???
It isn’t paranoia. I believe that the video in Lint’s post in the article is from a previous game refereed by Beaton (not long ago), where the same Karma bit deep.
Bull shit, paranoia
Karma is indeed a bitch.
They might have to give the foul in future – just in case Karma bites again.
That move that leads to CELTICS goal sum’s up the blatant cheating by the referee “the rangers” players fell and the referee gave a free kick a CELTIC player is blatantly fouled the referee gives NOTHING… CELTIC play on and score…GIRUY ha ha ha … thanks Don your cheating cost your team