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Oddly, though, by the letter of the law they'd be yellow cards for different reasons. Simulation is defined as "feigning injury or pretending to have been fouled", so exaggerating an actual foul isn't technically simulation. However, it certainly is "showing a lack of respect for the game", which is also a bookable offence for unsporting behaviour.

Went for Tait, but special mention to Louis who despite seeing virtually nothing of the ball in the danger area all day was still only inches away from scoring twice and never stopped chasing down anything and everything long after the game was done and dusted.

Of course, Celtic fans to a man are saying Kipré should've been sent off in the first half, and thus the incompetence evened itself out...

Maybe. Trouble is, it's not against the rules to decide to fall over if you feel contact. It's only against the rules is if you feel contact that wasn't actually a foul (or don't feel any contact at all) and decide to fall over to make it look like a foul, and he hasn't gone as far as admitting he did that.

Even if he was, that's not really one of the criteria any more... has to be a goalscoring opportunity, *and* a deliberate attempt to foul.http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/36047575

A link to that clip via Twitter:https://twitter.com/BBCSportsound/status/934406324896415744

I'm confident we'll play better than we did in the 2011 cup final. That's as optimistic as I'm getting.

I'd be delighted with the totally undeserved winner, cos that's fitba'. Being a liberal old sap, though, I'd much rather win without getting away with anything we shouldn't have got away with. Fair and square always feels ten times better.

Pity. The longer I live in Ireland the more I want them papped oot of every competition ASAP

Flow said on Twitter tonight that it was unlikely, just not logistically possible to run any more.

One of my favourites that one, too.

They didn't (and rarely do), according to Mr B: https://twitter.com/Alan_Burrows/status/923090466169597953

Haven't watched it so I couldn't tell you. Your comment about "regardless of who he was aiming at" just suggested that it wasn't clear at the time, in which case it shouldn't have been a free kick.

The ball has to be "deliberately kicked to the goalkeeper by a team-mate" to be a free kick, though. So who he was aiming at is very much the key point.

Sounds like a football version of the WWE...

Not any more...

If you want the biased view: http://www.mixlr.com/motherwellfc

From the BBC: "Rangers defender Fabio Cardoso is apparently having a go at Motherwell in the Ibrox programme tonight, describing the Fir Park outfit as a football version of WWE."

It's not commercial, but they still have a budget that the Government likes to cut as often as it can. I'd guess they probably don't go to any press conferences outside of Glasgow or Edinburgh.

To be honest, I would have no problem with them just watching on YouTube (the questions are usually just the same predictable tosh every week anyway), provided they still fairly and accurately reported anything of interest.

Vince Lunny weighs in on the Alves ruling... http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/41747625

*shrug* Doesn't seem like it should be a big surprise to anyone that kicking your legs around another player on the ground is sometimes going to get you a card. But in this case it didn't, so it's all good.

No surprise there, he said he was expecting to be hearing from them in this morning's press conference. If he gets the same one-match ban that Caixinha's likely to be getting, I'm sure we'll cope.

That. If the ref decided there was intent in "kicking his legs towards Alves", which was quite possible given he'd just been on the receiving end of an attempted assault, he could have been in big trouble, contact or not.

Loved Robbo's response in the presser this morning when journo asked for his thoughts on Caixhina saying we wouldn't finish the Final with 11 men on the pitch if we played like that again