Ibrox penalty error takes precedence over all else in last Sunday's League Cup final, while a myriad of fouls on Celtic players are completely ignored

Yesterday at 12:36 PM

Celtic won the League Cup final, right?

So, really, we have nothing to complain about do we?

For a minute here, let’s delve into an alternate universe.

The SMSM love doing this all the time, so I’m going to give it a shot.

Let’s just say the Ibrox side were awarded the penalty they believe they were screwed out of.

And then let’s just say they won the League Cup final as a result of scoring from that penalty.

In this alternate universe, Celtic would be feeling extremely hard done by.

The first point which would require attention would be the fact that Robin Propper pulled and obstructed Cameron Carter-Vickers for the Ibrox side’s second goal.

CCV cannot break free from Propper, his jersey is tugged, and then Propper wraps his arm around CCV’s, effectively making him a bystander for Diomande’s goal.

This is a clear and obvious foul, and CCV is clearly seen remonstrating with John Beaton after the incident.

Beaton chose to ignore it.

He did not seek clarification on it from Alan Muir and Frank Connor in the VAR room.

Nor did they even pick it up.

Celtic would have every right to be aggrieved in this situation.

But would our protests, if our CEO Michael Nicholson actually had the courage to demand answers for this in the alternate universe, have amounted to anything?

We all know the answer to this.

Willie Collum would probably have toed the party line in his VAR show with Gordon Duncan, and said the exact same thing that he has about the Ibrox side’s penalty decision.

It was unacceptable, mistakes have been made, yadah, yadah, yadah.

Celtic would have been left raging, but the League Cup would still be at Ibrox in the alternate universe.

Back to the real world now.

So, for posterity, I’m going to agree that, based on the rules, Alan Muir and Frank Connor’s decision not to award the penalty to the Ibrox side was “unacceptable”.

However, their decision to ignore Robin Propper’s pulling and obstruction of CCV was also unaccpetable.

IGNORE being the operative word here.

Because its still being ignored.

In fact, every transgression, and there were quite a few by Ibrox players, is being ignored.

All that matters is this penalty decision.

And this has resulted in everything else being forgotten about.

It DOESN’T matter, because Celtic won.

And it didn’t cost Celtic.

Only the decision that cost the Ibrox side matters.

But what did the Ibrox side expect?

If the VAR team couldn’t spot an incident like the Propper/CCV one, then how did the Ibrox side expect they’d pick up on their penalty decision?

If Muir and Connor didn’t spot Leon Balogun’s deliberate kicks on Reo Hatate and CCV while he was already on yellow card, then what did the Ibrox side expect?

They need to understand that they are supposedly being refereed to the same standard we are.

And if it is then the same standard, then they should expect the kind of standards we expect.

Which are shit.

If YOUR second goal wasn’t disallowed, then you sure as shit won’t be getting a penalty either.

Them’s the breaks with sub-standard, amateur referees.

Get used to it.

Celtic did a long time ago.

Hell, we’ve even just accepted it.

All the wailing and whining in the world has never changed it, and it never will.

Welcome to our world.

But here’s the harsh reality, it only ever matters when you lose.

And you lost.

You and your compliant media are letting the whole world know you lost.

Newsflash, nobody gives a shit.

You’ve benefitted from shit refereeing for years, now that the shoe is on the other foot, you’re squealing your heads off over it.

Do yourselves a favour.

Get over it.

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