Many Celtic fans are so conditioned to the way that the SFA do business that they felt their side didn’t ‘deserve’ a late penalty in the League Cup defeat at Kilmarnock.
When a rival club can go 56 matches without having a SPFL penalty awarded against them and when a former player admits that he expected a referee to even up a penalty call it is easy to become conditioned to the unusual.
No matter how good or bad a team is playing the Laws of the Game remain the same, from the kick-off to the final whistle. Deserved doesn’t feature in the Laws.
Club positions, finances and other mitigating factors don’t come into it, if you are kicked in the penalty area the decision is the award of a penalty. Even if Sead Haksabanovic had dived five minutes earlier the Laws remain unaltered.
During his time at Ibrox Ryan Kent mastered the skill of running into an opponent or throwing his leg out to find contact knowing that the ball would soon be in the possession of James Tavernier.
Very late on in today’s match Haksabanovic drove deep into the Kilmarnock penalty box, heading for the bye-line. A panicked defender tackled from the goalside to knock his opponent over.
Alan Muir had a good view of it, according to the Viaplay Sports commentary team a VAR review was carried out within 30 seconds without a break in play.
Don Robertson should have had at least four cameras to check, perhaps he had already decided before he carried out his whirlwind check of the incident?
Celtic penalty shout v Kilmarnock.
Not given. pic.twitter.com/BuIUwpd5P0— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) August 20, 2023
Killie players reaction tells you he’s caught him
— Mark (@markiss888) August 20, 2023
In any other country they’d look at this from every angle,numerous times, and then make a decision. In Scotland, because it’s @CelticFC they looked at it once and within 10 seconds VAR had concluded no penalty.
— brendan quinn (@brendanquinn20) August 20, 2023
Liverpool were awarded a pen yesterday after a similar challenge.
— Billy Rice (@ricebilly) August 20, 2023
After what we saw yesterday the bar for what is considered a foul in the box is extremely low – this certainly meets the criteria!
— Lubo25 (@Lubo251) August 20, 2023
Definitely a penalty
— Steven O’Neill 🏴🇮🇪 (@steveon7) August 20, 2023
its a penalty killie players catches him.. if its rangers its a pen facts and yesterday’s VAR prove it. they get that pen and out of jail we don’t. we still win the league
— James McLaren🍀 (@1888James) August 20, 2023
Hes hooked his foot,stonewaller
— James M (@johnsmi50964256) August 20, 2023
Clear contact, definite penalty. Mason in the VAR room dismissed it within seconds, clearly terrified that a second look would sway him. The SFA’s refs now have a new way to cheat. I expect this will be another “honest mistake”, same as last season multiple times.
— T’Rebel Treble (@TinternetBampot) August 20, 2023
It’s a definite penalty. If Celtic had scored they wouldn’t really have deserved it. However not to asked to the monitor and for Din Robertson to say no pen so quickly 🤔
— KEVIN CLARKE (@thebobsterone) August 20, 2023
Yes, both can be true.
It has no bearing on the merits of a penalty or the Kilmarnock goal.— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) August 20, 2023
