Two matches into his Ibrox career and Cyriel Dessers believes that he is immune from penalty decisions.
The former Cremonese striker is half right but has yet to discover the special interpretations of Scottish referees.
Last night, prompted by a competent VAR official, Servette were awarded a penalty at Ibrox, they scored and the complex of their Champions League tie was instantly changed. Next week in Switzerland there will be another neutral referee with a VAR official that isn’t trained in Goldson’s Law.
Last season in Italy and now at Ibrox on European nights Dessers will know that if he wants to run into his own penalty box, lift his hands and strike the ball a penalty will be awarded. It happens to every team in football.
Clearly the £4m striker has been confused by watching highlights of last season’s SPFL matches in which the Ibrox club survived 38 matches without having a penalty awarded against them.
Had Dessers watched their European matches he’d have noticed four penalties being awarded in 10 matches with the same Laws of the game applied.
Doesn’t take long to indoctrinate them into the Ibrox way, the sad thing is, with SFA Refs, he’ll be right 100% of the time.
— Joe (@JGS1888) August 10, 2023
This just tells you everything you need to know about the penalty scandal in Scottish football
If a new player can say that , then he has obviously been told that the wee new team never gets penalties against them at ibrox
Now it’s clear the ibrox players know thisScandal
— 🍀THE GREEN FOX🍀 (@jg2394044) August 10, 2023
Last night’s incident and Dessers reaction sums up the way Scottish football has tied itself in knots to try and provide a challenge to Celtic.
Following the World Cup break there could easily have been half a dozen penalties awarded against Connor Goldson over a three month spell.
Realising what he can get away with domestically the former Shrewsbury starlet knows that he can run towards the ball with his arms in all sorts of unnatural positions without any chance of a penalty being awarded for hand-ball.
Against Celtic in January he moved towards Carl Starfelt with both hands stretched out towards the ball to take the sting off the shot from the Celtic defender. John Beaton let it go, his team was leading 2-1 at the time with Willie Collum providing a token review before play continued.
Immediately after the match there was very little coverage of the incident, traditional media looked the other way but the internet bampots were on it to such an extent that Ange Postecoglou brought it up at a media conference a few days later.
Those in attendance were stunned that the Celtic manager had gone off topic, they had nothing to throw back at Postecoglou.
On Saturday Don Robertson will referee Livingston’s match at Ibrox knowing that it is 56 matches since Kevin Clancy awarded a penalty against Giovanni van Bronckhorst’s side as they drew 1-1 at Pittodrie.
Apparently these decisions even themselves out over the course of a season- except for viewers in Scotland.
I’m not sure why he would think that, it was a stonewaller
— PT67 (@PTC2308) August 10, 2023
You punched the ball you balloon
— Joseph Campbell (@JosephC51557236) August 10, 2023
He’s raging because he was assured that they didn’t get pens against them before he signed! 😂😂😂
— Wes Murdiff (@wesolingo) August 10, 2023
Wow deludamol has been handed out to players too
— Ryan Malone (@RyanMal02899450) August 9, 2023
5 penalties against rangers out of the last 11 in Europe. 0 penalties against them in 56 in the SPL
— Crackerman (@mostlyceltic81) August 10, 2023
He’s learning quickly…….
— Denis Maxwell (@lubohenke1967) August 10, 2023
“We’re just not used to having penalties given against us. It’s not fair that foreign referee’s are allowed to apply the laws of the game against us in Europe. We demand Scottish referee’s in European games too!”
— Jake 🏴 (@Jakey0_0) August 10, 2023
Except for the fact it 100% was a penalty.
— Andy Borland (@AndyBorland4) August 9, 2023
Hand ball in the box mate
— Drockforty (@drockforty) August 10, 2023
Must have thought he had a Scottish referee 🤭
— Gerry Murdoch (@MurdochGerry) August 9, 2023
He’s obviously been lied to.
— Fairhill Bhoy (@james_hainie) August 10, 2023
