{"id":18131,"date":"2023-01-04T07:47:56","date_gmt":"2023-01-04T07:47:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18131"},"modified":"2023-01-04T07:47:56","modified_gmt":"2023-01-04T07:47:56","slug":"celtic-diary-wednesday-january-4-their-cheating-hearts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/etims.net\/?p=18131","title":{"rendered":"Celtic Diary Wednesday January 4: Their Cheating Hearts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It appears the Celtic board are about to swing into action and ask the SFA for clarification around some of the more controversial decisions by the officials&#8230;on and off the park&#8230;during Monday&#8217;s Glasgow derby.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Such as the penalty awarded to &#8220;rangers &#8221; after the full blooded assault by Carl Starfelt on Fashion Sakala.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It was so bad that afterwards, in this clip, Sakala shows his relief that paramedics will not be needed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/i\/status\/1610375738959478784<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Any insinuations that he is faking his injury and cheering the decision by the referee he has just conned are just plainly wrong. The man is clearly hurt and might yet require surgery.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Or, of course, he could be celebrating having conned the ref&#8230;but that&#8217;s nonsense. Beaton is a referee who some quite simp;y do not need to con. Just offer him an opportunity and you can bank on him to do the right thing.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Not only to award a dubious at best penalty kick, but to deny a certain one when it might affect the outcome of the game &#8230;.or should i say the prefered outcome of the game.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This is handball. In the penalty area.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2-prod.dailyrecord.co.uk\/incoming\/article28858525.ece\/ALTERNATES\/s1200b\/0_Rangers-v-Celtic-Cinch-Scottish-Premiership.jpg\" alt=\"Connor Goldson Rangers 'handball' claim puts Willie Collum under VAR  microscope as former ref defends John Beaton - Daily Record\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Which leaves the ref with a decision.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u2018Its no doon to me\u2019. Well aye it is mate. You\u2019re the ref. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/8kWjX0X0nR\">pic.twitter.com\/8kWjX0X0nR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Paulie (@pauliebhoy46) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/pauliebhoy46\/status\/1609926633917489152?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Video Assisted Refereeing&#8230;.there&#8217;s a clue in the name&#8230;..is there to assist the referee and so therefore it is down to him.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we expected, the media leapt onto a hitherto unknown rule to justify the decision of the officials&#8230;. this is from the Record, attempting to explain it to their readership, without pictures&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3><em>What the rulebook says<\/em><\/h3>\n<p><em>The IFAB rule states: &#8220;Not every touch of a player\u2019s hand\/arm with the ball is an offence. It is an offence if a player:<\/em><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Deliberately touches the ball with their hand\/arm, for example moving the hand\/arm towards the ball<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Touches the ball with their hand\/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger. A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand\/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable by, the player\u2019s body movement for that specific situation. By having their hand\/arm in such a position, the player takes a risk of their hand\/arm being hit by the ball and being penalised<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Scores in the opponents\u2019 goal:<\/em>\n<ul>\n<li><em>Directly from their hand\/arm, even if accidental, including by the goalkeeper<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Immediately after the ball has touched their hand\/arm, even if accidental.&#8221;\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Oddly enough, they left out this image from the rulebook&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.datocms-assets.com\/43623\/1653641422-illustration-book-handball-chosen_en.png?auto=format&amp;q=90\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Goldson moves his hands to stop the ball. Whether that&#8217;s to stop\u00a0 it hitting his face is irrelevant, it&#8217;s a penalty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>It certainly would have been had Starfelt defended a Goldson shot at the other end in the same way in the same place.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>VAR has, as we predicted in the Diary, allowed the officials to spread the blame, whether it be for their incompetence or their bias.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If they are incompetent, get rid of them and the people who train them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If they are biased, and there is certainly that perception, then logic dictates that someone is either encouraging or at the very least ignoring this, and so they need to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As we said yesterday, if the club won&#8217;t take action, supporters and shareholders must.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The club should refuse to speak to or endorse league sponsors, they should withhold the fees not only for VAR but for referees themselves, as long as they legally can.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>And even then, perhaps go to court&#8230;..after all, if we&#8217;re paying for a referee the least we should expect is a &#8230;referee.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Failing that, I&#8217;m off to look for some military level surveillance equipment.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>If no one is going to let us know what these officials are discussing, then we&#8217;ll have to find out ourselves. We&#8217;ll need it when we play them in the Cups&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>They cheated us once&#8230;.under no circumstances must they be allowed to do so again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It appears the Celtic board are about to swing into action and ask the SFA for clarification around some of the more controversial decisions by&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":18132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/etims.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/Cheating-quotes.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2J7If-4Ir","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18133,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18131\/revisions\/18133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/etims.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}