21 Jan 2023 12:37:40
This VAR is a joke, never a pen, this was always going to happen against a team like Morton just so the powers that be can say "see Celtic do get VAR decisions, pathetic. If that's a pen the one at Ibrox was stonewall.

1.) 21 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 13:21:48
It's already on the beeb website "was it a pen" clearly giving us a ridiculous decision when it doesn't matter.

2.) 21 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 16:00:45
And no mention from the BBC about the penalty in the second half which was a penalty. The refs are a complete joke, they have no idea of the rules, i think we all agree that in real world the one we got was not a penalty and the second was a penalty in any other universe. Can't wait to the annual VAR review, the only thing missing from that document will be the sevco emblem.

3.) 21 Jan 2023
21 Jan 2023 18:44:15
They'll use that as ammunition next time Ange complains about VAR. How we got one against Morton in a nothing game we would've always run away with. The 2nd handball wasn't a penalty either imo, both fall into the Bernabei/ O'Riley category. It's frustrating as more will be said about that penalty all week than the performance itself. Usual SMSM putting a negative spin on a good Celtic result.

{Ed007's Note - Let's be brutally honest, some of the decisions that have went Celtic's way are just other examples of how it isn't working and as I keep "preaching" on the podcast we have to call out dodgy decisions that do go for us whether we win or lose or it just looks like sour grapes or excuses.
Like everything else in Scottish football it's getting dragged into a Celtic v SFA/SPFL fight or a Celtic v OFFC fight with the rest of the clubs sitting waiting to see who blinks first and then nobody blinks and the initial point gets lost.
If we - as in Ange and the Club - are unhappy about VAR and the way it's being ran in general - and I'm looking at the bigger picture here - and OFFC feel the same, and Aberdeen feel the same, and Dundee Utd feel the same (Joonas has said VAR has cost them a few times this season) then why can't the clubs as a whole team up and get it sorted.
Things like VAR, refereeing standards and the people running our game etc should never be allowed to become a Celtic v X,Y,Z situation, the only way things will improve overall in our game is when there is footballing AND financial people looking after the interests of EVERY club as a whole. I don't want Celtic to get dodgy decisions as much as I don't want OFFC or Hibs/Hearts getting dodgy decisions.
In the upcoming World Club Cup thing they are trialling the refs being miked up during games so that the crowd and folk at home hear their discussions, how do you see that working if the IFAB make that a part of VAR?}