Yesterday’s handball decision by the newest technological advance within football really did look incomprehensible. The man operating the VAR, Nick Walsh, has a history of questionable decisions against Celtic shall we say. How can a player possibly acknowledge where the ball is if he isn’t looking at it?
The Poetry in this photo, showing two players (Bernabai & Edwards) both jumping to head the ball, both with a random hand behind their back…
Thus demonstrating Bernabai's hand is in a natural position 😂 pic.twitter.com/A80TMP8ZNz
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And the St Johnstone manager, Callum Davidson also made his thoughts on the penalty decision awarded to Dundee United yesterday after intervention from VAR in his pre-match interview ahead of the match at McDiarmid Park this afternoon (at the moment the half-time score is St Johnstone 1 theRangers 0 with James ‘I Fell Good’ Brown scoring the first goal of his career.
READ THIS…“It definitely was not a penalty at Parkhead yesterday,” Callum Davidson
It was a moment that defied both belief and logic yet again from officials in Scotland. After the Hearts game at Tynecastle in which Michael Smith stopped the ball whilst moving his hand outwards from his body to stop James Forrest, the discrepancy in the consistency from the men operating VAR has to be given closer inspection.
If that Bernabei incident is a handball under the new laws of the game then I’m afraid football is going down the drain. It will ruin many a more showpiece occasions and mar the game in controversy like never before. It’s only been a fortnight or so and already it’s becoming tiresome and devisive.
After the game and all the usual debate online, Jim Spence took the time to comment on a video that someone had posted in reply to his article in The Courier regards VAR issues. The fan was rightly bemused by the egregious errors that the officials overseeing the technology saw fit to impose on the game, thus influencing the referee.
Spence, being very droll and satirical, mocked the decision with a sarcastic remark stating:
“Clearly a penalty. Defenders must learn to leave their arms in the dressing room or tie them to their waists before jumping.”
Clearly a penalty. Defenders must learn to leave their arms in the dressing room or tie them to their waists before jumping. 😎 https://t.co/jvszntNPhq
— Jim Spence (@JimSpenceDundee) November 5, 2022
It would appear Celtic supporters aren’t the only ones concerned with the introduction of this technology recently.
And it should also be noted that the referee saw nothing wrong with this shoulder high challenge on Giorgos Giakoumakis – not even a free-kick – and after a VAR review by Welsh for a possible red card, no action was taken…
Shoulder high tackle. It is a straight red it’s for endangering your opponent. The fact that this wasn’t even deemed a foul by the ref is baffling. pic.twitter.com/hVyvlqzpMu
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It’s becoming pretty clear to all that the SFA/SPFL have an agenda to use VAR to stop Celtic at every opportunity.
After not conceding penalties at all, we have now had five in three games, two of them in Europe on Wednesday.
Celtic started yesterday at a very fast pace and scored early on with the pace picking up and pressure being applied to the already tiring United defence.
But in stepped the corrupt officials to interrupt the flow of Celtic attacks. They will do this all season long.
They have made poor referees even worse. The joker who was ref yesterday was completely awful, but he needs to think, “why does Nick Walsh get to make all the decisions from a wee room watching a TV?”
It shows how little confidence the powers have in him to do a good job!
It turns out they were right, but he was playing to their instructions!
Very corrupt.
Yes the cheating referees and those operating Var, are now doing openly in every game ,and getting away with it, surely there must be some way of challenging this blatant cheating, week in week out
Never change when you have 90%of referee’s that surport rangers the sfa and spla are corrupted and against Celtic ask them why Nick Walsh was on VAR when he is a blue nose bitter bastard rest my case