How embarrassed will Don Robertson be after his performance at Hampden yesterday? He gave 15 fouls against Celtic and only 9 against ‘them‘, if I can borrow that word from the lexicon of yesterday’s opponents. Not surprising and that statistic certainly wouldn’t embarrass Mr Robertson. We have seen such performances for him and other referees even when we are playing against robust teams and have more than 70% possession.
When Cameron Carter-Vickers and Goldson challenged for the ball in their box, and Goldson went to ground, it was given a a foul against us. When the Fatboy kicked CCV in a goal-line scramble, it was play on although the Celtic player was lying crumpled on the ground. Morelos had every right to go for the ball but he obviously made contact. No sign of red on Don’s face for that.
From the start, he failed to protect the Celtic players from wild lunges from Davies and Lundstram in particular. They were reckless and went unpunished, except a yellow for Barasic. Again no embarrassment for the referee and he has form here; I am thinking about two tackles against us where he failed to take the appropriate action and which were retrospectively upgraded to reds.
Having said all that, let’s get to the embarrassing bit for the man in black. If he had just done his job properly, who knows how yesterday’s game would have ended. Instead he couldn’t bring himself to award a free kick to Celtic for a blatant body check on Matt O’Riley in a dangerous position. Instead he allowed play to go on, much to the bewilderment of the players in blue around him.
We all know what happened after that and although it wasn’t a goal assist as such, the referee played a big part in the goal. Thanks Mr Robertson, but why the red face? In trying to help his team he only succeeded in helping us. Hoisted by his own petard, me thinks.
On a different tack, I would just like to say how well Tod Cantwell has fitted in to the team in blue. He seems to have effortlessly picked up on the anti-Celtic rhetoric coming out of Ibrox. Apparently, we didn’t win the League Cup and he is looking forward to adding to ‘the 55’; these are a couple of his outbursts. Is there a room in Govan where the new recruits are indoctrinated and forced to watch a recording from Donald Trump on how to lie and cheat at sport?
I am reminded of how Didier Deschamps was referred to when playing in the French team that won the World Cup. He was described by Eric Cantona as the water carrier in midfield. Yesterday, by his show of petulance, Tod took that to another level. Never mind Tod, I guess Celtic are not in the final, but anyway, the drinks are on me.
Chris Wotherspoon
The block by Raskin was such a blatant free kick and it should have been the easiest decision of the day.
Robertson’s Bobby Tait moment. https://t.co/bOJJZN4YT8
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Oh and you’ll enjoy this…
Its not just the FA and UEFA that would object to Sevco in the English League. Every Police force and City hall would be against it as well
It seems this clown wants the new club to follow the old club and disappear altogether!
Now we understand what they mean by “follow follow” 🤣🤣🤣🤣