The first time I spoke to Ange Postecoglou I warned him about both the Scottish media and the kind of refereeing decsions that he’ll face in his time in charge at Celtic. Yesterday Ange possibly for the first time stated his own dissatifaction at a referee insisting that he reckoned that Celtic had a covering player in Stephen Welsh threrefore Callum McGregor’s foul merited a yellow and not a red card.
“From my angle I thought we had a covering player but the referee has made that decision,” Ange told BBC Sportsound.
It’s a margin call to be honest. The referee makes his decision in real time whil afterwards we all get to check it out as many times as we like. It’s hard to argue that Beaton’s call could have gone either way and it is simply unfortunate that this one, like so many others, went against Celtic.
Callum McGregor will now sit out the trip to McDiarmid Park next weekend, no bad thing maybe given the amount of football that has to be played over the next few months, but maybe Celtic should spent the grand it costs on appealing the decsion and see where it takes us.
And when doing so use the opportunity to flag up what looked like a much more clear cut last man call at Ibrox recently in their game against Ross County, and that offence was committed by Sands, a player already on a yellow.
So the outcome that day was a shrug of the shoulders and not even a free-kick to Ross County.
Spot the difference 🤷♂️ pic.twitter.com/iodSbVlMcX
— Abada-cadabra (@ThePundit_) October 2, 2022
McGregor’s red card will not be overturned. However by flagging up these two examples Celtic can let it be known that we will contest these ‘inconsistencies’ and in doing so make it harder for the men with the whistle to get away with the cheating that theRangers benefited from against Ross County.
