Inaccuracies and Wrong Calls

What’s the point in playing at the Bigotdome?

You go there, try your best to play football and all you get is a blanket of blue shirts hell bent on kicking ten shades of shite out you with the backing of incompetent officials.

Before I go any further, if Celtic take the chances presented, namely Shaun Maloney’s two, then we win the game hands down. They couldn’t and wouldn’t get back into a game where they don’t have a lead to defend.

Which leads me nicely onto the game itself and the inept refereeing on show.

To say the ref got it wrong is an understatement. Twice in the opening twenty minutes Shaun Maloney was upended by old codger Davie Weir. Yip, not once but twice.

Did we get a penalty?

No chance, instead Shaun gets a booking and the ref bottles it. So, the second time the wee man goes down, again a stonewall penalty , but Craig Thomson bottles once more.

Surely a booking? Naw, that would have meant a sending-off and even more scrutiny of his deplorable display.

But it gets worse.

After his rush to book Maloney for diving, he then lets off Mendes in the middle of the park for blatant simulation. The Portugese simply ran out of ideas and took a dive. Why wasn’t he cautioned?

Because in the second half when the wee bastard pulled down Aiden he was booked for the first time, instead of the second.

Inconsistent? It gets worse.

The manager with no name then throws on Nacho Ned and Oscar Winner Lafferty to try and get the ball off Celtic. At one point the possession was 65/35 in our favour.

Immediately Novo goes on a mission to ‘maim’ Mark Wilson and Lafferty spends his whole time on the park making Bruce Lee like challenges on anything in the Hoops.

Eventually, the ref did book both, but only after the pair had tried to take out several Celtic players.

This damning verdict on the officials is made even worse with the ‘admission’ by the referee that he should have given Celtic a penalty after 12 minutes.

Same as Kenny Clark did when Neil Lennon was scythed down at the Hun end a few years back.

So, fellow Tims there we have it.

The ref says sorry and we all have to forget about it.

Maybe we should get one of our players to go on a rant about the referees like Kenny Miller did. Seems to work if you want to get every decision in your next game!

P.S. If it’s any consolation eleven of Scotland’s Shame are up in court today for rioting in Manchester. Hope they all get life!