I’m told that the meeting between Paddy Stewart and the guy currently doing Hugh Dallas’ old job was summarily brief.
Perhaps an observation was proffered, asserting that “there’s never a perfect match” apropos officiating.
Like the rest of Planet Fitba, I’m interested to hear the VAR audio on the Trusty incident.
If the correct protocol was indeed followed, then this will lead to several days of public mourning by the Ibrox klanbase.
In fairness, Paddy was merely reading the room after the semi-final defeat, but that’s his job.
As ever, the folks at the Huddle Breakdown drill down into the data.
Here, Alan Morrison (32 minutes) reminds us of the “patterns of assistance” that benefited Sevco during Crawford Allan’s reign of error at the SFA.
I’ve noticed that this cleverly precise term is now being used on Sevco social media.
Delicious!
Hat tip, Mr Morrison.
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To be honest, whatever Trusty was thinking about on Sunday, it wasn’t a good look in real time. Now I can’t recall whether var got involved or not but, Trusty got a yellow and went on to win the MoM award. Whether he should have been red carded or not is not for the rangers, or their fans to decide.
I have lost count of the number of times that Celtic have been on the wrong side of refereeing decisions but there hasn’t been the amount of faux outrage that we are seeing since Sunday. Several decisions went against Celtic on Sunday but I don’t see many in the media highlighting them.
If you take away all of the controversy from both sides, the rangers were never winning that game. Celtic should probably have won a lot more comfortably than they did in the end had they taken a few more of the chances they created.
All the feet stamping and whinging from the rangers is nothing but a part of an ongoing attempt to influence the way that matches are refereed in bonnie Scotland. Especially when they have to face the champions. They and their rabid fans can not face up to the fact that they are nowhere near as good as they seem to think they are.
Hopefully, Celtic do not sit back and let them try to take control of the narrative. The rangers need to realise that Var makes things a helluva lot different to the refereeing that they were used to in the bygone days of yore.
HH and God bless Martin and Maloney ☘️☘️
Usual ludicrous nonsense from them. I remember Big Joe Hart nearly having his head taken off by Big Fletch quite early in a game at a wee while back. Unlike Butland, he was bleeding and there was an extended stoppage to patch him up. Fletch also got just a yellow in what anyone can see was a far more serious incident. Don’t recall the media or even Celtic making a fuss, or issuing angry statements about that – or, in the most recent game about:
1) Cornelius’ assault on Kenny, which was probably worse than what Asgaard was red carded for, as it could have snapped his leg/ankle (and/or the wee sly kick from Diomande that followed);
2) Cornelius’ deliberate handball in the box, where he clearly pushes out his right arm to block a cross (from Hatate I think it was?) with Celtic players wide open in the box;
3) The fact that Ralston didn’t “dive in to block the ball” in the penalty incident that got them back into it, as parroted across the mainstream media – he was thrown to the ground by one of their players and it hit him on his way down, so it should have been a foul.
4) The fact that it wasn’t handball anyway, as his arms were tucked in and so did not make his body “unnaturally large”. As the earlier one that we could have had, that was rightly waved away because the ball hit the Sevco player’s knee before bouncing up and hitting his hand/arm (which was raised high and extended to make his body “unnaturally large”) shows, the fact that the ball hits an arm or hand doesn’t automatically make it handball.
As much as their arguments are ludicrous and they’re overplaying it now by crying wolf and with the constant stream of statements that are rapidly just becoming white noise now, I just wish our lot would do this sometimes. Instead of just quietly accepting their place at the back of the bus.
EST ever yet it even dates back to Bellahouston 1982 some of them actually believe THAT!!!!😃
“The Crawford Allan reign of error” is a delicious phrase.
It doesn’t help the less rationally minded that we were fed the fake news narrative from Billy Dodds ‘punditry’ on the BBC re Auston Trusty – “he just rakes his studs across Butland’s face” which was reproduced all across the Scottish MSM, but never challenged as being the ridiculous hyperbole it was. Trusty was naive, nay, stupid for dangling his foot out – even more so for giving the referee a decision to make in a Glasgow derby. Thankfully Walsh and his VAR team obviously saw the same thing we all did, as Trusty’s instep made glancing contact with Butland. It only seemed to be the Celtic facing social media sites that showed the photo of Butland in the immediate aftermath of the incident, without even a dirty mark on his face, never mind any stud marks. However, WE’RE the ones “always cheated” according to the Govan mob. In the interests of transparency (and for the good of the game – isn’t that what they’re after?), I believe the head of refereeing should share his insights from his meeting with Patrick Stewart. After all, there were two teams playing last Sunday, not just The Rangers!
it’s a kinda fenian global warming that’s to blame .
The Trusty/Butland incident is now in its 4th day of meltdown. However, since Rangers go into a similar process after every loss to Celtic then I’ve come to the conclusion that there has been a continuous meltdown since 2012 which is being delivered in instalments!