'Honest' mistakes 24/25

Won't matter. They can't rule out 6 legitimate goals within the first 30 minutes for us and they can't give to many penalties to them due to the overwhelming help they gave early on now accumulating into a near world record amount...

Sure we will get a easy yellow or two, easy free kicks to break the game up. It won't be enough. 5-1 to the good guys.

 

Fully expect Lustrum like tackles to be flying from them with the full backing from the officials. Our players need to be careful from the first minute so as not to give the cheating feckers an excuse to book or send them off

 

I think they'll behave tonight TBH. They know the league is gone and they won't waste any more dodgy decisions on it. They'll save it up for the cup final. In fact, I won't be a bit surprised if we get a dodgy decision or 2 tonight. They can give us a few now when the league is all but won to give them more leeway to screw us over at Hampden.

 

Absolute solid reasons here and the first one especially. The excitement of the game has gone because you can’t celebrate at all now without feeling like a total fool

 

Think that was a blatant penalty for us today. Glad he didn’t give it in the end, we’d only have missed it and gave them a boost

 

As a clear a handball as you’ll get

 

The handball not given today was a stonewall penalty. It looks worse when Beaton didn't give that in VAR, but gave the shocking one against us at Hearts. It isn't different officials with different opinions what is handball. It's just plain cheating.

 

I don't think either were penalties, but that's what's causing the issue... They went so far out of their way to find the justification for the first one, but then don't apply the same logic forward... And everyone said at the time they were digging a hole for themselves giving it... If they'd just said they'd * that one up they could've buried it and moved on...

 

I thought they got pretty much every big call wrong. The handball is given in literally every other game and they never even looked at it. Scale's shove on Dessers (?) wasn't a foul, but the weaker shove on Hart was a foul. Makes no sense. Random decisions without rhyme nor reason.

 

If the Bernie handball against Hearts was a pen, then yesterdays handball was a pen. The Diomande elbow is questionable. The push on Hart was a correct call by VAR that would be very difficult for a ref to spot without technology. Without VAR that goal would probably stand and made it difficult for us to get back in it.

 

They wanted VAR so bad that in games against us they've now actually had quite a few things go against them correctly..

Feel like they've scored a goal against us almost every time that's been chalked off this season

 

Both pushes were fouls but VAR can only look at a foul for a penalty, lead up to a goal or red card. There was a foul in the lead up to the goal so it was looked at.

 

And every single one of them was correct when you run it back. How the ref didn't see the Iwata incident at Ibrox without VAR is just laziness. The Lagerbielke one was more difficult, but the correct call was made in the end.

 

Scales shove on Dessers was definitely a foul (although outside the box IMO). Arguably, that evens out the handball. They got both of those wrong*. The shove on Hart was absolutely a foul. That was the right decision from the VAR.

* Which is to say that although I don't think those kinds of handballs should be a penalty, they've been giving them all season and consistency would require them to give it here.

 

I assumed the shove on Dessers was in the box but I never really looked at it that closely, just happy it wasn't given. I'm not saying the foul on Hart wisnae a foul, just that the Scales one looked worse. If it was outside the box, that kind of explains that.

No VAR on the handball was just ridiculous because, as you say, totally inconsistent with the rule as it has been applied all season. If next year they want to stop giving those, great, but don't start before the end of a season where we've repeatedly been penalised for far less.

 

The Dessers foul was a poor decision but I found it absolutely unbelievable they covered that at half time..

Clearly outside the box. No last man. No really a dangerous position from open play..

Utterly bizzare because they quite rightly should've had a freekick..

 

The ref didn’t give the shove on Dessers or the shove on Hart. It was only after VAR intervened he made the correct call. VAR couldn’t look at the Dessers one as it was outside the box, but had that been inside, it would have got looked at and a penalty would have been given, as it was a definite foul. The handball is a definite penalty, even more so when you look at some of the handballs we’ve had against us.