Interesting that Celtic decided to put Alistair Johnston up for media duties today ahead of Celtic’s Scottish Premiership match against Aberdeen at Celtic Park tomorrow evening…
Johnston of course was the player who got to the byeline to cut the ball back for Daizen Maeda to level the scores at 2-2 at Easter Road on Saturday lunchtime. We know that both the linesman and the match referee thought that the ball was in but unfortunately for Celtic Alan Muir on VAR duties had other ideas and ruled out the goal ‘factually’ stating that the ball was out.
Celtic in contact with the Scottish FA today
Celtic has been in contact with the Scottish FA today, as Brendan Rodgers confirmed at his own media conference, and the club will be looking for the factual details that Muir based his decision on. If it’s merely a guess using the footage from the 18-yard line then that is going to be a big problem for Willie Collum.
Alistair Johnston was measured discussing the incident and confirms that as the person closed to the incident he reckons that the ball was still in play. The is going to run and run this story.
