The Football.....

[AndyRM]

Lol at the attempts to justify it.

Scottish officials are hard wired to protect the Old Firm at all costs, it's an absolute joke. I guarantee you no other team in the SPL gets given that.

Gonna be interesting to see who Collum picks for Saturday. I reckon it's between McLean and Robertson, who aren't quite as bad as Beaton, but they're close.

 

[Pblakeney]

Have you actually seen the incident? It's a clear penalty. The Hearts player would be fully aware of the consequences of his fist being beside or in front of his head when going for a header. A nailed on penalty. Whether the officials would have seen it without VAR is another matter but that aside it was a clear penalty.

Celtic penalty

.......and I would love to see Hearts win the league but I fear they won't now................

Have you actually seen the incident?
It was a Motherwell player. 🤪 Displays a certain level of blindness.

 

[PaulSB]

Lol at the attempts to justify it.

Scottish officials are hard wired to protect the Old Firm at all costs, it's an absolute joke. I guarantee you no other team in the SPL gets given that.

Gonna be interesting to see who Collum picks for Saturday. I reckon it's between McLean and Robertson, who aren't quite as bad as Beaton, but they're close.

I'll happily take your word about the Old Firm bias and acknowledge I know very little of Scottish football. With Hearts doing so well this season I've taken more notice than usual.

Regardless of the league, clubs involved, etc surely you can see this was a penalty? The hand appears to be in front of or directly alongside the MOTHERWELL 😄 player's head

 

[AndyRM]

I'll happily take your word about the Old Firm bias and acknowledge I know very little of Scottish football. With Hearts doing so well this season I've taken more notice than usual.

Regardless of the league, clubs involved, etc surely you can see this was a penalty? The hand appears to be in front of or directly alongside the MOTHERWELL 😄 player's head

He didn't put it there though, he was fouled by the Tic player backing into him which pushed his arm up...

Like I said, guaranteed nobody else in our league other than Rangers would get a decision like that.

 

[Alex321]

Lol at the attempts to justify it.

Scottish officials are hard wired to protect the Old Firm at all costs, it's an absolute joke. I guarantee you no other team in the SPL gets given that.

Gonna be interesting to see who Collum picks for Saturday. I reckon it's between McLean and Robertson, who aren't quite as bad as Beaton, but they're close.

Regardless of any bias towards Celtic, that would have been given almost every time in the English PL this year. You simply don't jump for the ball with your hand above your head any more. Any contact with that hand or arm, that will be a penalty.

And if they are that biased, why wasn't the one by the goalkeeper earlier in the match given? He clearly caught the Celtic player (who was doing nothing wrong) well before reaching the ball.

 

[AndyRM]

Regardless of any bias towards Celtic, that would have been given almost every time in the English PL this year. You simply don't jump for the ball with your hand above your head any more. Any contact with that hand or arm, that will be a penalty.

And if they are that biased, why wasn't the one by the goalkeeper earlier in the match given? He clearly caught the Celtic player (who was doing nothing wrong) well before reaching the ball.

The difference is that the VAR would have agonised over the decision in England, looked at it from multiple angles and realised that there it's not a clear and obvious error by the referee so the onfield decision should stand.

But no, Beaton takes one look at one angle and decides that's good enough for him.

I didn't see the earlier decision, I only caught the last 20 minutes or so.

I'll not get into whether they're biased or not, that's not even up for debate.

 

[T4tomo]

The defenders arm is levered up because he times him just ahead of the celtic player and (legally gets slightly over him. The contact on the hand is marginal and not effecting the path of the ball.

Its definitely not a clear and obvious error. in addition whilst his hand is "up" its still within the outline of his body and head, so not making him unnaturally larger.

It also underlines all that is wrong with the current handball rule. It needs to go back to only deliberate hand ball.

I hope Hearts stuff Celtic in the final game.

 

[AndyRM]

To cut referees in Scotland some grudging slack, it's not their day job, so why we expect amateurs (essentially) to be refereeing a professional game is beyond me.

 

[Accy cyclist]

Anyway, why did Motherwell play in an odd dark green/blue strip last night? I thought they played in amber and gold.🤔

 

[AndyRM]

Robertson is the referee for Saturday... He's got previous for dodgy decisions, and has apologised to McIness in the past (when he was with us).

Good luck to him.

 

[AndyRM]

Anyway, why did Motherwell play in an odd dark green/blue strip last night? I thought they played in amber and gold.🤔

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It's their 140th anniversary kit, which they've been celebrating this week.

I believe it's getting used as their third kit next season.

 

[Alex321]

Anyway, why did Motherwell play in an odd dark green/blue strip last night? I thought they played in amber and gold.🤔

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If he thniks that was the worst VAR penalty decision he has seen, then I can see why he is no longer with the BBC. There must have been double figures worth of worse decisions this season in the PL.

 

[T4tomo]

https://www.efl.com/news/2026/may/14/efl-statement--sky-bet-championship-play-off-final/

Spygate update....

 

[AndyRM]

If Gary wants a worse penalty decision, featuring Beaton, Celtic and similar timing...

https://www.skysports.com/football/...-lewis-mayo-handball-was-a-poor-poor-decision