The truth about Paulo ‘second yellow’ Bernardo and the attack from Connor Goldson

Typical of the issues with legacy media the myth is being spread by the Ibrox messengers that Paulo Bernardo was lucky to avoid being sent off during Celtic’s victory in the Glasgow Derby.

The Portuguese midfielder was booked for celebrating scoring the opening goal off the pitch, an issue that is often overlooked in high pressure matches.

Midway through the second half James Tavernier played the ball towards the former Shrewsbury starlet with Bernardo closing in on the ball.

Now in his sixth season in Scottish football Goldson knows exactly how to play these situations. Give it ‘welly’ to play through the ball, deliberately into your opponent then fall to the ground squealing that you are the victim. A ploy that rarely fails domestically.

Predictably, taking their lead from old media on television and radio the accepted version of events is that Bernardo got away with one, Nick Walsh was afraid to make the big decision which is actually true.

Viewing the incident from close range, as shown in the video clip above the Bearsden based PE teacher should have detected the intent from Goldson with the decision being whether it was worth a yellow or red card.

To the surprise of no-one play restarted with a free kick awarded to the visiting team with Walsh coming off the park having taken the SPFL run without conceding a penalty to 74.

With John Beaton picking up the baton for Tuesday’s match against Kilmarnock it looks a formality that the Barcelona record is surpassed, taking the run beyond the two year mark.

Since popping a penalty past Allan McGregor in January 2022 Lewis Ferguson has gone on to join Bologna and become the top scoring Scot in Serie A, passing the totals of Denis Law, Graeme Souness and Joe Jordan.