The Offical Glasgow Celtic thread

[JollyGreenGiant]

The best part of all this it was the fantastic outcome of Celtic winning and keeping the title race open (and almost equally in their hands) and it shows up the moon-howlers amongst the Celtic supporters who think the whole thing is rigged in spite of ongoing success and achievement.

And of course we won't mention those who think the whole thing is rigged in favour of Celtic. Gawd no.

Why would we need to mention them here?

[GTP]

I thought one of the Motherwell players was pushing the player who handled the ball, it was panicky defending 3 men trying to stop a flick on. Celtic didnt even have that many in the box to defend against.
Kelechi Iheanacho rolling it into the net under a lot of pressure deserves great credit. And whilst the keeper did make a great save the first goal was a bad mistake.
VAR setting it up for every decision going Hearts way on Saturday so they can deny it is all a conspiracy against Celtic.

[GTP]

Given the context of the game about as bad a decision you'll ever see. Zero evidence form the camera angle the ref was given to suggests that a pen, it shouldn't have even got far.

Just don't see how the ball would travel that far it its hit a hand, that doesn't make sense.

Still photo's aren't evidence either, been sent so many photo's and not one of them proves anything. If we see more angles that proves its a handball than happy be wrong but given what the ref was shown its an horrific mistake.

As for a lot of ex Celtic & Rangers players there pretty much all as biased as each other although Paul Lambert did offer plenty of sense this morning.

I believe it was a handball but accept that the TV pictures can be interpreted either way. But the context of the game should have no bearing on a factual decision from the VAR or referee. And to say there is zero evidence of a handball is to dismiss the view of professional match officials who firstly determined in the VAR room that it was a handball and confirmed this at pitchside from those pictures. There is no way that either party gave a penalty on the basis of zero evidence.
And as for the theory that the ball wouldn't travel that far if it hit a hand, it could be as simple as the ball hitting the hand and then hitting his head and travelling away. Heading it away does not rule out handling it before this.
Regardless it was given perhaps because of a conspiracy, perhaps because of an error or perhaps because it was the right decision given the rules of football.

[mup]

The best part of all this it was the fantastic outcome of Celtic winning and keeping the title race open (and almost equally in their hands) and it shows up the moon-howlers amongst the Celtic supporters who think the whole thing is rigged in spite of ongoing success and achievement.

And of course we won't mention those who think the whole thing is rigged in favour of Celtic. Gawd no.

Why would we need to mention them here?

Because its a thread about Celtic.

[tonto1888]

I hope this thread remains as busy once all the mockrage about the penalty dies down

[clonian]

Would Hearts winning the league actually help Celtic in the long run?

If Celtic win it with all the issues the team has had, management issues and squad mismanagement/lack of investment - would it leave the board thinking they got it right anyway and O'Neill saved the day.

Has there been any confirmation of the new manager?

[Main Street]

To claim a photo of a hand touching the ball is not evidence of a hand ball is ridiculous, head in the sand absurdity.

Also absurd is the blind acceptance of the pseudo science of supposed ball trajectory, that the length of the distance the ball traveled after hitting the defender 'rules out contact in any form with a hand/wrist' is being accepted as a valid evidence against the ball hitting the hand/forehead

 WTF have we got here, Neutons laws of motion, the hidden verse in VAR's guidelines?



Back to VAR.
It's not enough that a hand ball has to be seen but also the incident passes the criteria, hand in unnatural position making the body bigger,  and this is clearly evident regardless of intent (which is zero) that the ball made contact with arm in an unnatural position. And how his hand got there is also irrelevant in this case most likely the other 2 players pushed Trusty into the defender.
 
It was on the softer side of penalty awards, considering there was no intent involved in no risk zone, but it fulfilled the VAR criteria and satisfied Brother Beaton and VAR.
Why is there no hysterical critical examination of the decision not to review the incident when the goalie using his two knees as a missile, blatantly and forcibly bulldozed Maeda onto the ground before getting paws to ball? an astonishing faux pas.

[quit yo jibbajabba]

f**k me. Think some of yis need to take a step away from the laptops/phones for a bit

[brokencrossbar1]

The beauty about this is that it sets it up lovely for Celtic to win on Saturday and the moonbeam conspiracy theorists like Bryson genuinely will end up be escorted away by the men in white coats!

[illdecide]

Honestly never seen the likes of it before...the reaction from it is ridiculous and guys jumping in here is a bit embarrassing tbh. It's a call that sometimes you get and sometimes you don't, it's the timing and significance of it that has most people rattled. I genuinly thought it was for an elbow to the jaw as I had to watch the game on Celtic TV and not SKY and that's what they were saying at the start of the check too. I could start here and name 50 other incidents we didn't get over the season that we thought were nailed on so I'm not sure why everyone is getting their knickers in a twist.
The penalty was given at 94 min and 50 seconds and there were 5 mins of added time allocated so that's another load of shite about playing all this extra time. Motherwell are a great footballing team and deserve all the plaudits they've got all season, they're damn hard to beat and particularly at home. Celtic did not play great last night and I suppose Motherwell had their say in that.
Roll on Saturday and the worst part of it is I have to stick that pessimist and Yap "JimStynes" all day . Celtic are on a roll and at home, Hearts will not handle this pressure on Sat and will be beat. Their away record is quite poor and the atmosphere might just be too much for them, the joy seeing that w**ker McInnes's face red with anger after getting pumped will be the icing on the cake for me as his comments last night were inflamatory and disgracful tbh along with that other jester/clown Kris Boyd.
C'mon Celtic...just one more win and then let Dunfermline win the cup just for the old Lurgan man to have his glory...Ohh and it relegates Sevco to the Conference League if Dunfermline win the cup .

[Main Street]

Regardless, should Rangers get in the Europa League they will get relegated (Danny Rolled?) to the Conference League.

[johnnycool]

The beauty about this is that it sets it up lovely for Celtic to win on Saturday and the moonbeam conspiracy theorists like Bryson genuinely will end up be escorted away by the men in white coats!

Why does anyone give that p***k the time of day?

He needs the oxygen of exposure to keep relevant, suffocate the hoor.

[SaffronSports]

Tough ould game tomorrow, must win to complete the job. Crowd will no doubt create a brilliant atmosphere and Celtic have shown multiple times this season that they never give up. I'd be delighted to get over the line but once full time goes in the Scottish Cup final next week, Operation 2026/27 has to begin. There's a serious amount of players not fit to wear the jersey so the management needs to be appointed asap and there needs to be a good clear out of those that aren't good enough and those that don't want to be there. I'm sick of watching Celtic scramble around for loans at the end of August. Get the business done early.

[JPGJOHNNYG]

Tough ould game tomorrow, must win to complete the job. Crowd will no doubt create a brilliant atmosphere and Celtic have shown multiple times this season that they never give up. I'd be delighted to get over the line but once full time goes in the Scottish Cup final next week, Operation 2026/27 has to begin. There's a serious amount of players not fit to wear the jersey so the management needs to be appointed asap and there needs to be a good clear out of those that aren't good enough and those that don't want to be there. I'm sick of watching Celtic scramble around for loans at the end of August. Get the business done early.

There is the small issue about who will be the manager. Will MON want to give it another year or will they be looking for some other up and coming manager with fresh ideas just like Nancy

[RedHand88]