Giorgos Giakoumakis spurned the chance to win Celtic’s game against Livi on Saturday. The Greek centre forward took the ball after Kyogo was slapped by Ayo Obileye. The striker, who started ahead of Kyogo, had a quiet game and was obviously hoping to seal the three points himself – despite Josip Juranovic appearing to be the penalty taker.
As you will know, Max Stryjek got down well and managed to save the tame effort from Celtic’s No.7. However, photos appear to suggest that Celtic should have had a reprieve as Stryjek was off his line. Rules state that the defending goalkeeper must remain on the line else a retake will be rewarded.
Bobby Madden was referee and he had no problem doing this to Motherwell’s Liam Kelly against St Mirren in the midweek. Secondly, the Livi defender enters the box before Giakoumakis hits the ball. Which is also an offence and would’ve merited a retake.
📽️Highlights from Parkhead where Giorgos Giakoumakis saw his late penalty saved by Livingston's Max Stryjek as Celtic missed the chance to go top of the table pic.twitter.com/IpJokVDA4d
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Ultimately, Celtic weren’t clinical enough across the piece and didn’t create enough. However, fans are frustrated in retrospect when decisions like this are missed and it results in crucial points being dropped.
Celtic face Ferencvaros on Thursday before a trip to Dens Park next Sunday.
Oh give it a rest please. We were handed a gift and the wrong, pretty hopeless player was handed the responsibility and almost filled his shorts, after being garbage on the day. The penalty taker was ignored. It was poor management and poor leadership to hand an important penalty to a big dumpling that will be transferred out of CP within a year. Just another Ajeti or Klimala. He then had another opportunity a minute later and again bottled it. Hopefully we don’t see him for a few weeks/months.
He would probably have missed the retake But rules are rules and considering Madden ruled that a penalty had to be retaken on wed night at Motherwell for the very same reason it just shows how inconsistent the cheating gang of Scottish referees are. The photo clearly shows that two Livingston players had broken the Laws of the game but Madden made one of those honest mistakes. The Scottish game is corrupt, always has been but a group of referees have taken the dishonesty to a new level and all to favour one club.
I totally agree with the two previous comments . The sinister corruption of SPL Referees has reached new heights and instead of moaning every supporter of every club should , ” Call this out “, with Football authorities , the media and even the Scottish Government , where appropriate .
What surprises me most is that the people who suffer the most from these , ” Honest mistakes “, namely :- Celtic Football Club and all other clubs in the SPL are ominous with their silence ????
Anyway Jock Stein commented on this issue by stating that Celtic did not only have to be a good team but a , ” Great team ” , to offset this adversity .
When a team has 90% possession and has only had one shot on target after 45 minutes of football then something is wrong and the whole squad , the players and the manager should realise this , and for F***s sake start taking corrective action .
Remember the quote by Albert Einstein —” The definition of MADNESS is to perform the same experiment over and over again and hope to get a different result “.