With the furious statements from Ibrox on hold the SFA have been given notice of the reactions they can expect from any perceived mistakes from match referees.
Fury is at boiling point among Ibrox fans and Directors, next Tuesday the SFA will announce the match officials for matches away to Dumbarton and Hibs with Steven McLean, Alan Muir, David Dickinson and John Beaton expected to defuse tensions. Having Andrew Dallas and Greg Aitken on VAR should completely eliminate the chances of further statements.
Across the city there hasn’t been a peep out of Celtic about not being awarded a penalty when James Tavernier wiped out David Turnbull in the same match. Compounding the issue assistant Callum Spence flagged for a non-offside, the same assistant who refused to flag Abdallah Sima being offside in the build up to the Alistair Johnston handball.
Still no word in this penalty incident from Celtic v Rangers at Ibrox.
Looking for clarification on pushes in the box with the ball in play.
Had a meeting about it.— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) January 9, 2024
It is hardly a surprise that Celtic have been sitting quietly at the back of the bus, the last time they went public about a referee was in January 2019 after an incredible performance by Beaton at Ibrox.
Celtic waited six days to question that performance, after tea and biscuits with Ian Maxwell and a refresher on the events of July 2012 Peter Lawwell never said another word.
The Turnbull penalty claim wasn’t Celtic’s first of the season in the Glasgow Derby, back in September Kyogo Furuhashi was pushed by Jack Butland and Connor Goldson following a shot from Daizen Maeda.
Neither Don Robertson or Muir on VAR duty bothered with the incident, typically there wasn’t a word of complaint from Celtic where Lawwell and Nicholson think that it is top banter to crack jokes about the horrendous standard of Scottish referees.
No Scottish referees are expected to be involved in the European Championships in Germany despite the lobbying of disgraced former SFA chief Hugh Dallas.
Look very closely as the linesman doesn’t flag for offside until well after Turnbull is fouled. Not before.
Yet that will be the excuse why it DIDNT go to VAR.
Should have went to VAR at least.The Celtic penalty shout v Rangers… eventually. pic.twitter.com/8a9pzSYLbo
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) December 30, 2023
? “Penalty Rangers”
Celtic chief Michael Nicholson’s cutting reply when quizzed on referees and VAR at AGMhttps://t.co/6vJYJ8p66Ihttps://t.co/6vJYJ8p66I
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) November 22, 2023
Masonic brothers the lot of them
You’re a 100% correct . They are ALL masons ( the Celtic plc too ) which makes it worse . We all , in unison , need to starve them of money . We’ll never do it . Fans are so fickle . It’s the only way we’ll get change.
Oh I starve them of ma money through the turnstiles Martin…
And I have done since Doncaster emphatically stated that ‘Rangers’ (his word and not mine) were the same club – ABSOLUTELY –
And Celtic said nothing – Na Da – nothing… Not even Ssssssshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !
PL – and Nicholson – have to explain to the long suffering support
as to why they have CHOSEN not to complain to the SFA about
the standard of match officiating.
And if sevco can complain publicly without any repercussions from the SFA,
then we should be doing the same.
Ive been saying it for years every fan that goes to watch there team stop giving there money to they masonic fuckpigs at hampden sfa.spfl lets boycott all cup games league cup and Scottish cup lets embarrassing them the dirty corrupt cheating bastards thats running our game to help ranjurs out i still think the officials will help them out toget their title this season because new club need CL money to survive if celtic get the title then its bye bye to there 2nd and move on to 3rd ranjurs but will the corrupt sfa spfl let them get away with it yet again 55 titles in 13 years we wait and see if p.lawwell and our board do will they strengthen our team our weaking them like they did for 10inarow and let they won to save them surely not a 3rd time if so our board better not step into paradise next year season if we lose it to save the OLD FIRM GET THE TORY BASTARDS OUT OF PARADISE..