'Honest' mistakes 25/26

i suppose there was no mention of the other 2 handball/ penalties we should of had

 

Absolutely none. Our decision gets heavily scrutinised, as it always does. I don't think any of their's ever do

 

I agree. And all other teams think the 'old firm'get all the decisions! I think people see patterns they want to see in just a general incompetence of refereeing decisions.

Games involving celtic and rangers demand so much more commentary than any other club. The penalty given in the Hibs vs Dundee Utd game for handball was a similar discussion to the Celtic one but few people discuss it. The Shankland handball at the weekend was a ridiculous oversight, but if that happened between Aberdeen v Livi, few people would be discussing it.

My other general gripe when it comes to handball specifically is that almost noone commenting knows the rules. So when pundits say things like "I wouldnt give it" they arent answering the correct question.

Referees are just inconsistent and rules are too opaque.

 

As I said on Sunday, if our penalty situation had happened to the huns, most pundits and media sources would be like "I can see why it was given" or "you can't have your arms up in the box"

 

so many channels, media outlets, that the commentator/pundit market is oversaturated and lots of useless old players who haven't really kept up with the game judging on standards from when they played. They often come across as old men shouting at clouds.

Ours do demand more commentary, but there definitely seems a media bias in scrutinising decsions going our way and ones that go against the huns. One good thing about the VAR review is we can see big calls from the other games, see similar incidents and see how they are judged. It also makes you aware that contentious decisions exist outside of Glasgow.

 

Agree totally, but Shankland definitely handles the ball early in the move for the first goal, plus they’d a goal disallowed for little or nothing. File it under ‘things you love to see’ but, in all honesty, we’d have been raging if we were on the end of those decisions (again).

 

Very dodgy handball call against Juve there where the defender slid in with his arms supporting him on the ground and it brushed against them.

As long as the rule around handball is worded as it is, it leaves decisions open to interpretation and to very harsh calls as a byproduct. Sunday was one of them.

The narrative about it being a shocker is clearly agenda driven. It was a harsh call but it's a very grey area so I can't see how people are so definitive about it.

 

If that’s a genuine peno, then, the game is *.

 

Defo agree with this.

But need to be honest its started a wee bit like penalty to Celtic now in recent times, weve had a few dodgy ones, lol, which is great. Thst weekend was sublime with us and their games.

 

Payback for the years of dodgy penalties awarded to that lot lol

 

It was definitely harsh at the weekend. I’d rather they weren’t given when it deflects like that.

But Andy Haliday said if it was going towards goal he’d understand if it was given. For me that complicates it even more? VAR would take about 10 years if that was the rule. Who’s to say it wouldn’t have taken another deflection or dropped to a Celtic player?

It’s such a grey area and refs are guessing at this point.