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Motherwell v Celtic 13/05/2026


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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 

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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.

 

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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.

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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. 

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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. 

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On 5/26/2026 at 11:53 PM, grizzlyg said:

Ye I think time to move on now. We cant change anything now

I suspect that's been Mr Beaton's most commonly used phrase over the past few weeks. That's probably his JRP Gordon moment, while it supercedes the time he never spotted the Dundee goalkeeper falling into the side of the net with the ball, it's obviously going to be Hearts and Rangers that will be most aggrieved by that decision against Celtic, and they will not let him forget it.

Just waiting for Collum's take on things on his monthly apology show.

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59 minutes ago, pretzel said:

Just waiting for Collum's take on things on his monthly apology show.

Yes, it'll be interesting. Whether or not it was an actual penalty is now largely irrelevant. What will be be fascinating is how he analyses the process. The referee makes a call, rightly or wrongly. That decision must stand unless there is compelling clear and obvious evidence that he got it wrong. No-one, except diehard Celtic fans and some Hibs fans have seen that.  

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2 hours ago, Kmcalpin said:

Yes, it'll be interesting. Whether or not it was an actual penalty is now largely irrelevant. What will be be fascinating is how he analyses the process. The referee makes a call, rightly or wrongly. That decision must stand unless there is compelling clear and obvious evidence that he got it wrong. No-one, except diehard Celtic fans and some Hibs fans have seen that.  

Id love to hear the comms.

But I suspect we wont, or it would probably have been released by now.

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It won't make much difference regarding what is seen or heard on any VAR show. 

No action will be taken, no changes made, refs will still favour the OF with big calls and VAR will continue to be a pox on our game.

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