{"id":13884,"date":"2019-02-07T08:27:00","date_gmt":"2019-02-07T08:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/etims.net\/?p=13884"},"modified":"2019-02-07T08:27:00","modified_gmt":"2019-02-07T08:27:00","slug":"celtic-diary-thursday-february-7-entertainment-without-integrity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=13884","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Thursday February 7: Entertainment Without Integrity"},"content":{"rendered":"

Scottish football may be entertaining, but last night we had examples of everything thats wrong with it, which will be largely ignored in order to pretend there’s a new level of competitiveness.<\/p>\n

At Celtic Park, the champions continued their dominant post break run with another win, 2-0 over Hibernian, but yet again, laissez faire refereeing led to a serious injury to a Celtic player.<\/p>\n

Emilio Izaguirre was stretchered off after an assault, and he will take up the place in the doctors room vacated by Dedryck Boyata, who returned to the side last night.<\/p>\n

“It was a clumsy challenge at best.<\/em><\/p>\n

“He is over on the ball, the boy, and I think it scared Emilio a little bit in terms of he has had issues with his ankles before when he has broken them.<\/em><\/p>\n

“But the medical team is telling me he thinks he has got away with it, it is a little bit sore and hopefully he will be okay in a few days.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

We’ll see.<\/p>\n

The Hibs player was yellow carded, as sooner or later the referee has to book someone, if only for appearances sake . should it have been a red card ? Rodgers weakly said he thought the ref may not have seen it…<\/p>\n

“I think Craig is a very good referee, he maybe didn’t see it at the time, he was maybe blinded, but it wasn’t a good challenge at all.”\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh, come on. Say what you saw.<\/p>\n

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Harry Brady of Celtic Underground did…<\/p>\n

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Harry Brady<\/strong>\u200f\u00a0<\/span><\/span>@HarryBradyCU<\/b><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n
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