Former Partick Thistle manager Ian McCall has expressed his surprise that referee John Beaton didn’t point to the spot straight away to penalise Emmanuel Longelo’s foul on Daizen Maeda. The experienced referee waved play on before Kevin Clancy, on VAR, advised his colleague to have a second look at the incident at the pitch side monitor.
At the game, it looked clear that the defender had pulled down Celtic’s No.38 as he seemed set to latch onto the flick on and score to give Martin O’Neill’s side the lead. The Celtic players complained but Beaton waved away the shouts initially.
Speaking to BBC Sportsound, McCall was baffled by John Beaton’s failure to award the penalty without the assistance of his colleague on VAR.
“We got to see three or four angles of it, but you only really need to see the first one of it.
“Longelo has just wrapped his arms around Maeda from behind him. He was just completely hauled to the ground, and I can’t believe the referee never saw it in real time.”
Tomas Cvancara blasted the ball beyond Ward to give Celtic the lead while Longelo was shown red for his role given that he made no effort to play the ball. It was a clear penalty and there were no complaints offered post match.
Celtic rounded off the scoring as Yang scored his second of the afternoon, latching onto a long ball from Vil Sinisalo, before taking a touch and finishing well. The result from Rugby Park means that the title is in Celtic’s hands and eight wins will ensure the return of the Premiership title to Paradise.
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Cheatin beaton should never be in charge of a Celtic game, should never be in charge of the Huns either. Willie golam should give cheatin his walking papers.hh
Presumably you mean his orange-walking papers|
‘Pundits’ on Superscoreboard were saying – what you complaining about – he gave you the penalty. No he didn’t ! VAR did. One clown said its difficult to see with so many players in the box – OMG Beaton was looking straight at it !! Keevins saying its just because Celtic supporters have an obsession with Beaton – why do you think that is Hugh ?
I really don’t like VAR usually but without it we would not have got the most stonewall penalty you’ll ever see and no red card. If he’s not bent then he is incompetent.
Correct on both points, incompetent and bent.