{"id":17567,"date":"2022-03-22T09:26:02","date_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:26:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=17567"},"modified":"2022-03-22T09:26:02","modified_gmt":"2022-03-22T09:26:02","slug":"celtic-diary-tuesday-march-22-spinning-us-right-round-at-the-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=17567","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Tuesday March 22: Spinning Us Right Round At The Record"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another weekend, another chapter in the book of refereeing controversies.<\/p>\n

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And it was that old favourite Bobby Madden….<\/p>\n

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He’s grown a beard, and is apparently indecisive about whether or not to keep it.<\/p>\n

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If only he could be as decisive about himself as he is about the Laws of the Game.<\/p>\n

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His decision to award a penalty to Rangers in their game against Dundee was , well, imaginative, as there seemed little reason to do so. Apparently, expert Dermot Gallagher , speaking on sky TV, said it was because of a shirt pull, even though the defender wasn’t facing the forward, the serial diver Alfredo Morelos, it was the correct decison.<\/p>\n

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And so endeth the media debate, with the SMSM deciding that Gallaghers word was law.<\/p>\n

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Which will help his application for head of VAR in Scotland at the interview.<\/p>\n

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The issue was compounded when Kris Boyd said that if it was a penalty then it was a sending off, switching debate away from one wrong decision to another spectacularly imaginative scenario.<\/p>\n

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The ball was around six feet above Morelos, though I suppose he might have got it, if he was actually a giraffe instead of just having one.<\/p>\n

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There were also a few protests at Dens from “rangers ” fans, or as Ibrox stalwart Alan MacGregor described them “fucking arseholes ” with regard to the club travelling to Australia to play as support to Celtic in the Ange Postecoglou show, although the real reason is that they know full well they’ll disgrace themselves abroad, be roundly and soundly beaten and don’t want to admit that they need the money.<\/p>\n

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The media refuse to acknowledge the real complaint being offered, which is they don;t want to share the field with a club “entrenched in child abuse “, which in turn is a response to Celtic fans who don’t want to subsidise a financial basket case.<\/p>\n

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Kris Boyd summed it all up, in his own words….well, some of them are words.<\/p>\n

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— Tam sellic son (@TamsellicsonIII) March 20, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n