James Forrest James Forrest December 18, 2024 Categories: Articles, Articles & Features, Blogs, Celtic, Celtic F.C., Cult Of Celtic, Injustice In Our Time, Media, News, Opinions & Rants, SFA Tags: Celtic, Ibrox, john beaton, officiating bias, refereeing standards, scottish football, SFA, VAR Controversy
Last night, someone sent me an extraordinary piece of footage, and I have to admit that I was surprised watching it—so surprised because I completely missed it during the game and in the repeat viewings afterwards. It shows Cameron Carter-Vickers being held by an Ibrox player during the moment that leads to their second goal.
Our centre-back could conceivably have gotten to that ball before it went into the net. He’s being restrained. That’s an infringement, which means it’s a free kick, which means it’s not a goal.
Look, I personally don’t care. I missed the incident at the time, and I’m not going to get steamed up about it now in the aftermath.
What I do care about is that when you see it, it’s fairly blatant, and yet nobody in the mainstream media wants to talk about it.
Nobody wants to ask why VAR didn’t intervene, why the referee didn’t see it, or why the goal wasn’t overturned. They have their little narrative that it was the Ibrox club that was hard done by here, and they’re sticking to it.
It is incredibly hard to take these people seriously when they’re in this sort of foot-stamping mood. It’s even harder to take them seriously when you look at their long history of not wanting to discuss officiating at all, and especially not the performances of individual referees.
If dark forces are pulling the strings—as the rambling Village Idiot seemed to suggest in his incredible on-camera meltdown—and there was some conspiracy at work to deny Ibrox their due in that match, I can only wonder why those involved didn’t intercede to chop off the second goal.
The chance was there. There’s something in that footage that would have justified such an intervention had they decided to make it. It wouldn’t even have been a particularly controversial moment. But these “Celtic fans” or whatever certain people want to call them, chose in that moment to do the club they’re allegedly serving a huge disservice and grant the side they’re supposedly screwing over an advantage.
Maybe it’s just me who finds that a little hard to comprehend.
And so, I ask again, as I have before—what exactly do these people want?
Great job 👍. Thanks for sharing.