Raskin’s made-up claims about Callum McGregor, taking the focus away from the biggest talking point regarding the officials…
Nicolas Raskin was vocal in his criticism of Don Robertson following his sides 3-0 victory over Celtic at Ibrox yesterday. The Ibrox player embarrassed himself with his total fabrication encouraged by the SMSM, even though footage showed the referee got the decision in question absolutely spot on.
🔵 “I think the referee wanted to book us both, but then looked at him and remembered he had a yellow and then just booked me.”
Nicolas Raskin says it was “weird” Callum McGregor avoided a second booking in Rangers’ 3-0 win over Celtic ⬇️https://t.co/5DOivErfWg
— Clyde 1 Superscoreboard (@ClydeSSB) January 3, 2025
Raskin’s fibs have taken the spotlight away from the real injustice on the day involving both Robertson and his colleagues on VAR. Even though Celtic didn’t deserve to win it’s still fair enough to point out that we were wronged by a decision on the day, when we were only trailing by one goal to nil.
Why no red card for this assault by Jefte on Nicolas Kuhn? 100% deliberate elbow, so excessive force, if not even violent conduct. Especially when think of Jefte’s filthy tackle in the cup final on Kuhn which he should have been red-carded for there too, as Peter Grant said. pic.twitter.com/g4W7pdVBJi
— Timothy Fellowes (@FellowsT1888) January 2, 2025
The decision in question came late on in the first half when Nicolas Kuhn was left with a bloodied nose after being on the receiving end of a reckless’ challenge’ by theRangers defender Jefte.
Robertson was quick to award the foul and caution theRangers man, but as Kuhn was left bloodied on the floor a replay showed that Jefte caught him with his elbow, and intentionally or not it’s dangerous and reckless play so surely it should have been reviewed by VAR and let the official take a second look at what was an undoubted red card offence.
After all it was the exactly the same offence that got Douglas Ross in a red card frenzy as he called for a sending off in a Glasgow derby seven years ago in which Jozo Simunovic walked after his ‘challenge’ on Alfredo Morelos, which was nowhere near as reckless as the one on Kuhn yesterday.
Jefte (i) committed foul, and (ii) seriously injured his opponent doing so – it is strict liability if you commit a foul & the level of force seriously injures the opponent – by the letter of the law it is a red card. pic.twitter.com/VcFYw7NO84
— Timothy Fellowes (@FellowsT1888) January 2, 2025
Just watched the OF highlights. Was Hagi booked for leaving pitch? Jefte not red carded for elbow on Kuhn? 90+ mins of sectarian bile from terraces, more objects thrown for third game in a row. Patterns of assistance
— Marc Wilson (@marcwilson11) January 3, 2025
Just an Ordinary Bhoy
Following the Orange press hysteria about the cup final, the instruction was clear to all huns on and off the field. Shout for everything, including fantasies, delusions, hallucinations and bare=faced lies. Get used to it. Thank god I left Schittland and can turn it off whenever I want. The solution, Celtic play better and shut them up. end of !
“The real injustice on the day” was how poor we were. Droning on about the usual background noise coming from the popular media is a wee bit desperate. I’d suggest you move on and avoid being sucked into all the usual nonsense post a derby match.