Motherwell v Celtic 13/05/2026

[Kmcalpin]

5 hours ago, twistandshout1983 said:

Remember it well,  here he is

It is laughable in a way,  there is a problem at Celtic Park but he wants absolutely nothing to do with it

Thats the one!

[twistandshout1983]

6 hours ago, MJC said:

I’d say it’s more that he embraces the problem, many that there are, at that club.

Celtic and their fanbase’s ‘victim mindset’ ramped up tenfold when O’Neill went there in the year 2000, along with the attitude you see nowadays of “let us behave how we want, say what we want, sing what we want and if you have a problem with any of that you are an anti-Catholic, anti-Irish right wing racist…but don’t you say or sing anything that we don’t like because that offends us”.

He emboldened them with and created a siege mentality, using Neil Lennon in particular to push the anti-Irish agenda and result of all of that is Celtic have the footballing authorities, the media and politicians scared of doing or saying anything to upset them.

Do not believe for one second that Martin O’Neill is anything other than a very dangerous, manipulative person.

Luckily for the rest of Scottish Football he should be away very very soon 

[Yodo]

There should have been no penalty decision to be made in the Celtic game as Ralston who took the shy was clearly on the pitch when he threw the ball . So foul throw should have been awarded to us and game is over 

[Happy Dosser]

21 minutes ago, Yodo said:

There should have been no penalty decision to be made in the Celtic game as Ralston who took the shy was clearly on the pitch when he threw the ball . So foul throw should have been awarded to us and game is over 

I've noticed  for at least the last two seasons that the foul shy law is virtually redundant  anyway. Incursion on the pitch and simply "chucking it" are common. It seems our referees decide which laws to enforce and which to ignore. I'm afraid we have to accept that we were extremely unlikely  to get anything out of that game.

It was effectively  a case of  "keep playing until they score or are given a penalty".

JBA is well out of it.

 

[El Grew]

On 5/23/2026 at 4:44 AM, texanwellfan said:

Except we are not allowed to do that but maybe that’s your point? Change the rules to allow that. 

Exactly my point. It’s way past time that we stopped pussyfooting around them and their obnoxious fans.

[GrahamH]

5 hours ago, Yodo said:

There should have been no penalty decision to be made in the Celtic game as Ralston who took the shy was clearly on the pitch when he threw the ball . So foul throw should have been awarded to us and game is over 

Ralston’s heel was on the line so it wasn’t a foul throw. There were plenty of issues with the penalty decision but that wasn’t one of them.

[Yodo]

7 hours ago, GrahamH said:

Ralston’s heel was on the line so it wasn’t a foul throw. There were plenty of issues with the penalty decision but that wasn’t one of them.

Rules are clear your feet must be behind the white lines 

[weeyin]

5 hours ago, Yodo said:

Rules are clear your feet must be behind the white lines 

IFAB disagrees:

At the moment of delivering the ball, the thrower must:

• have part of each foot on the touchline or on the ground outside the touchline

[GrahamH]

7 hours ago, Yodo said:

Rules are clear your feet must be behind the white lines 

Not sure what rules you’re looking at but you’re wrong. 

[texanwellfan]

Yep, touching the line is the criteria.
I will say though, this season just passed I saw a lot of players not keeping both feet on the ground and officials didn’t see it. I think they don’t pay attention as they are fully expecting that every professional player can take a throw in properly. 

[pretzel]

19 hours ago, weeyin said:

IFAB disagrees:

At the moment of delivering the ball, the thrower must:

• have part of each foot on the touchline or on the ground outside the touchline

TBF Willie Collum picks and chooses what IFAB rules he wants to follow and implement here (feels very much when it suits).

Even forgetting Ralstons foul throw, before they got up the park Beaton gave them a throw that was ours on the edge of the Celtic box, he had a great view of it. 

[weeyin]

2 hours ago, pretzel said:

TBF Willie Collum picks and chooses what IFAB rules he wants to follow and implement here (feels very much when it suits).

He can pick and choose what likes, but it doesn't make the "foul throw" comment correct.

[grizzlyg]

21 hours ago, GrahamH said:

Not sure what rules you’re looking at but you’re wrong. 

Yup,  I agree, if foot on line its fine

[texanwellfan]

1 minute ago, grizzlyg said:

Yup,  I agree, if foot on line its fine

Applied to both feet 

[Mad Dog]

2 hours ago, texanwellfan said:

Applied to both feet 

One foot can be outside the field of play.