Embargoed? Celtic’s Maeda penalty decision seems out of bounds for Mainstream

There were quite a few talking points from Celtic’s win over Motherwell today but it seems that there is one huge decision that the Mainstream media don’t want to discuss.

Brendan Rodgers was asked about the injury to Adam Idah that eventually resulted in Liam Gordon getting sent off, he was asked about Luke McCowan opening the scoring, the return of Cameron Carter-Vickers from injury and a few other issues.

Gordon’s red card was one of two huge refereeing decisions, it seems that the other, a first half incident involving Daizen Maeda and Stephen O’Donneill is to be quietly forgotten.

Which is part of the reason that social media is marginalising the mainstream, the decision not to award Celtic a penalty is most certainly trending with two leading SFA officials, David Dickinson and Alan Muir failing to apply the Laws of the Game on a number of counts.

Perhaps their thoughts were elsewhere this afternoon.

Initially Dickinson awarded a goal despite a grounded Daizen Maeda using his arm to knock the ball over the line.

Muir, on VAR duty was quick enough to spot that but how did the Celtic player end up on the ground, catapulted into pushing the ball into the net?

With the benefit of various Sky Sports cameras Muir would have noticed how Maeda got in front of O’Donnell who knocked him to the ground.

Before the use of his arm Maeda was fouled in the penalty box, rather than disallow the goal a penalty should have been awarded to Celtic.

If that wasn’t the case then Maeda should have been booked for diving or deliberate handball.

Rodgers wasn’t asked his views on the incident or if he got an explanation from any of the officials at the match

With Gordon Duncan avoiding the obvious question on Sky Sports we can expect his new bestie Willie Collum to do the same with the highly selective decisions that the SFA decide to apply transparency to in their weekly whitewash/review.