As Ian Maxwell and Willie Collum attempt to firefight the fury and outrage from Ibrox following the League Cup Final it is unlikely that the name of Leon Balogun will be brought up in the post match rage.
Prompted by Bobby Madden on social media there has only been one issue from the match as the darkest conspiracies are aired in the darkest corners of the internet.
When their anger is directed at John Beaton and Alan Muir things are truly desperate, both of those officials have long established trends in their performances.
Anyone in any doubt should Google ‘Beaton, Morelos, Crown Bar’ or ‘Muir, Josh Meekings, handball, Hampden’.
Adding to the dark conversations is the fact that Beaton booked eight of Phil Clement’s squad which overlooks one key factor.
Only two of those bookings were in the first 90 minutes with the other six coming in stoppage time and extra time, some might view that as running down the clock.
Balogun on a yellow.
Goes in with studs on another two tackles on a yellow.Subbed off after next break in play.
Should have seen red. https://t.co/UF8WuRk9Ny pic.twitter.com/HL8QEtou0D
— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) December 17, 2024
The first booking of the day went to Leon Balogun, the 37-year-old defender starting the match in place of the injured John Souttar.
In trademark fashion he snapped into Reo Hatate 30 yards from goal, caught out by the sharp movement of the Celtic midfielder, Beaton seemed reluctant to reach for the yellow card but finally decided that a booking was deserved.
Early in the second half he was involved in a similar incident, turned by Hatate he sent his opponent to the ground, this time Beaton kept his card in his pocket, there wasn’t even a word of warning to the Ibrox defender.
There was still time for another attack on an opponent from Balogun, this time Cameron Carter-Vickers was the victim as his opponent arrived a split second to late as the Celtic defender cleared the ball.
Running out of lives and with his team mates flagging, Balogun was substituted in the 67th minute, his replacement, Dujon Sterling, was booked in the 107th minute.
An SFA media conference is expected on Thursday with Phil Clement following up with his paranoia on Friday to preview the match against Dundee.
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6 Comments
by Redmond
And what about Propper pulling CCV back as he tries to stop the ball going in the net?! Absolute joke that the Huns are controlling the narrative yet again
by James Ward
The Huns will see what they want too see. Their manager is using this deflecting tactic to keep his job . Celtic we’re the better team, end of! Deal with it.
by portpower
Let sevco FC think.
Mr. Willie Var is beautiful.
by John McGhee
The cheats of scotland the ranjurs cannae beat the champions of scotland CELTIC FC so this is what the get up to kick payers al over the park knowing that loyalist beaton will not send them off this scumbag beaton should never ref another celtic game but no doubt the cheats need him and his followers in black the officials in SPFL are a disgrace watching sevco players trying to hurt celtic players honest these rats should be no were near a whistle give them back their flutes dirty scumbags the lot of them including they RATS at corrupt hampden sfa.spfl..
by gav
Shades of Fat boy in all of those. They seem to have some kinda immunity deal with the court appointed Pee Eff. Who’da thought
by Douglas Johnston
Celtic were below par,but were only team trying to play football,and of course they cry wolf,it is embarrassing and they should have been down to 10 men and the South Stand linesman was shocking all through the game.But they won’t mention any of this.If you can’t beat a below par Celtic you really need to look closer to home.But blame is there narrative,SFA should not be bending over to there B/S.