Aberdeen’s Astonishing Attack on Celtic doesn’t Stand Up

ABERDEEN’S new Chairman Dave Cormack has launched an incredible attack on Celtic after his stroker Sam Corgrove’s red card appeal was thrown out by the Scottish FA late on Christmas Eve.

The Dons have been upset at Kristoffer Ajer according to their point if view taking a triple role and then winking at Cosgrove as he was seeing the red card flash before his eyes. They also point to a challenge by Leigh Griffiths which they seem to believe is on a par with Cosgrove’s.

Last Boxing Day Aberdeen lost 4-3 to Celtic at Pittodrie. We’re assuming that Cormack missed that game so didn’t see the ridiculous penalty that Wille Collum awarded to the home side or the blatant foul on Craig Gordon for Aberdeen’s third. Celtic just got on with the job and if they scored 3, we scored one more.

Here are the highlights…

There didn’t appear to be much “fairness & consistency” in the refereeing on Boxing Day last year and Cosgrove’s Red on Saturday was as clear cut as you’re ever likely to see.

To be honest, I never even noticed the Griffiths challenge but the two feet off the ground insulation is wrong, he is running when making contact, not lunging.

“Law = fairness & consistency. Sam will take his ban but the compliance officer has a duty to review Ajer feigning injury with his triple salvo and miraculous recovery after Sam gets the red. Griffiths lunges into Ferguson’s knee with both feet in the air. Fairness for ALL please!” Cormack tweeted.

Law = fairness & consistency. Sam will take his ban but the compliance officer has a duty to review Ajer feigning injury with his triple salvo and miraculous recovery after Sam gets the red. Griffiths lunges into Ferguson’s knee with both feet in the air. Fairness for ALL please! pic.twitter.com/ze0LimAdrm

— Dave Cormack (@CormackDavie) December 26, 2019

Neil Lennon was dragged into the controversy by Derek McInnes who claimed that the Celtic manager had told him after the game that it wasn’t a red. That wasn’t the position that the Celtic manager expressed when he spoke to the media on Christmas Eve.

Lennon told the Media as reported bySky Sports News:

“He did get a lot of the ball, but there was intent there.

“I didn’t think he needed to make the challenge in that area and the way he did it.

“Ten years ago I would have been happy with a challenge like that, but with the game as it is now, on the follow-through it maybe could have hurt Kristoffer and he is maybe lucky that he didn’t come off with a bad injury or an injury of some sort.

“Looking at it at the time, it was a full-blooded challenge, but when you see it again I am thinking: ‘Why are you making a challenge like that? You are setting yourself up for trouble’.

“So, the way the game is, it was probably the correct decision.

“You always worry when a player has left the ground that the excessive force could be dangerous.”