Tuesday, and first up, Dundee Utd faced League Two promotion hopefuls Spartans. Barely 12 mins into the match, United's task was made more difficult when Lovu bodychecked Cammy Russell and off he went, the referee brandishing the red card. The right decision? Probably. However the Arabs were in no mood to suffer a cup exit and in the 31st minute a sumptuous in swinging corner from Ferry met the head of Graham and the hosts were 1-0 up. Halftime came and went, and on 55 mins Goodwins men had a cushion when a lovely through ball was left for Fatah to slide into the net. His reward for this finish was to be hooked two mins later and replaced by Stirton. It’s a strange old game. Spartans though played some nice football and at times looked very dangerous, and so it proved on 78 mins when a looping shot by Spartans' Stowe left Maynard-Brewer in United's goal stranded and it was “game on” Sadly though for the visitors there was to be no fairy tale, and despite constant pressure the home team kept them out. However, they can take heart from this performance as honestly there was little between the teams not just in score but in quality. I for one was impressed by the standard of football they played.
Wednesday, and an all Premiership tie between Aberdeen and Motherwell. This game certainly didn’t disappoint for action. Two mins on the clock, Aberdeen’s Cameron was brought down by Motherwell's Priestman, and John Beaton reached for red, giving the Fir Park side an uphill task. The resulting free kick was fired from 19 yards low and hard into the net by former Hibs striker Kevin Nesbit, and sent the Dons fans into delirium. Aberdeen continued to pile on the pressure and a shot from the aforementioned Aberdeen man looked net bound before a fantastic save from Motherwell's Connelly. Contention in the 23rd minute when the Dons' debutant Geiger made what can only be described as a “bloody stupid challenge” on the Well's Fadinger. Beaton having shown a yellow card was advised by VAR to take another look at the “tackle” and invariably this meant only one thing, early bath for Geiger, and, honestly, rightly so.
Wednesday, and an all Premiership tie between Aberdeen and Motherwell. This game certainly didn’t disappoint for action. Two mins on the clock, Aberdeen’s Cameron was brought down by Motherwell's Priestman, and John Beaton reached for red, giving the Fir Park side an uphill task. The resulting free kick was fired from 19 yards low and hard into the net by former Hibs striker Kevin Nesbit, and sent the Dons fans into delirium. Aberdeen continued to pile on the pressure and a shot from the aforementioned Aberdeen man looked net bound before a fantastic save from Motherwell's Connelly. Contention in the 23rd minute when the Dons' debutant Geiger made what can only be described as a “bloody stupid challenge” on the Well's Fadinger. Beaton having shown a yellow card was advised by VAR to take another look at the “tackle” and invariably this meant only one thing, early bath for Geiger, and, honestly, rightly so.
How JB in the middle thought this was only a yellow again brings into question refereeing in Scotland again. Others may think differently and I look forward to your thoughts but for me 100% red all day long. Ten men apiece and a debut that lasted 23 mins. Parity however didn’t last long. 48 mins on the clock and Gordon of Motherwell brings down Olusanya. Initially deemed worthy of a yellow again Beaton was called to the monitor and Motherwell were down to 9. 63rd minute and a bullet from Dons captain Shinnie from all of 23 yards settled the match and sent the home fans off happy looking forward to the next round and fighting to retain their trophy.
I don’t want to talk about Thursday but I suppose I’ll have to. I mean times a healer right so … let’s open some wounds
Celtic lined up against Stuttgart in the first leg of the UEL knockout. Another European night at Celtic Park and another chance for wonderful memories to be made. A tennis ball protest against the board halted the game almost immediately after kick off and chants of “all Celtic fans against the board” could be heard around the stadium along with “The Celtic board have got to go.” The fans in attendance certainly made their feelings known. Not sure what they’ll do with the balls but if you’ve a dog I guess you could ring up the stadium and see if they’ll send you a few. It didn’t take too long for Celtic to shoot themselves in the foot and a shot from El Khannouss eluded all-at-sea Schmeichel to put the visitors ahead.
I don’t want to talk about Thursday but I suppose I’ll have to. I mean times a healer right so … let’s open some wounds
Celtic lined up against Stuttgart in the first leg of the UEL knockout. Another European night at Celtic Park and another chance for wonderful memories to be made. A tennis ball protest against the board halted the game almost immediately after kick off and chants of “all Celtic fans against the board” could be heard around the stadium along with “The Celtic board have got to go.” The fans in attendance certainly made their feelings known. Not sure what they’ll do with the balls but if you’ve a dog I guess you could ring up the stadium and see if they’ll send you a few. It didn’t take too long for Celtic to shoot themselves in the foot and a shot from El Khannouss eluded all-at-sea Schmeichel to put the visitors ahead.
Nygren soon levelled the score in the 28th minute when a mix up in the Stuttgart defence presented the chance on a plate to the goal hungry Swede who managed to swerve the keeper before sliding the ball into an empty net. Hope springs eternal or, at least, so it’s said, but it’s also the hope that kills you right? 28 mins and that hope was extinguished as El Khannouss headed a shot past the hapless Schmeichel and from there on the German side dominated a poor poor Celtic.
Awful defending from Celtic was the theme of the night and a save in the 30th minute from Schmeichel prevented the away team furthering their lead. Half time 1-2 Stuttgart. 58 mins and questions asked of Celtic's keeper yet again as Leweling made it 3, and already fans were leaving. A fourth for the away side was deemed to be offside in the 60th minute but in all honesty by this point there was nothing to celebrate. A smart save by Stuttgart's keeper prevented Nygren getting his second of the night in the 63rd minute. Whilst Celtic did improve somewhat in the second half it was always an uphill battle and a fourth was added in stoppage time by Tomas.
A night strewn with errors and one to forget for fans and team alike. Boos and jeers rang out around the stadium at full time mostly directed at Kasper, whose errors gifted the away side the match and probably the tie. It’ll take a miracle of epic proportions to overturn this in Germany. I won’t be holding my breath. In the words of Forrest Gump “that’s all I got to say about that.”
Friday saw Championship leaders St Johnstone dropping points away to Raith Rovers. A match that ended 0-0 and not the result the away team would be hoping for.
Saturday saw their nearest pursuers, Partick, close the gap to 3 points with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Airdrie. A solitary Stanway goal enough for Thistle.
Inverness kept their 5 point advantage over Stenhousemuir with a 1-1 draw at home in this top of the table League One clash.
League Two, and East Kilbride stretched their lead to 5 points over their closest rivals Clyde and Spartans who both have 2 games in hand and the league title rather like the Premiership is looking interesting.
So to the Premier League. With the Glasgow sides both playing on Sunday, league leaders Hearts were handed the chance to extend their lead at the top of the table if they managed to beat a determined Falkirk. This wasn’t a “classic” but it will be remembered as the day Islam saved Hearts. Islam Chesnokovs first goal for the club was all that separated the two and extended McInnes' side's lead at the top of table at least for 24 hours.
Dundee Utd and Kilmarnock fought out a 1-1 draw. Fatah, having missed a penalty for the home side in the first half, atoned for his sin in the second, scoring in the 74th minute. Kilmarnock, the “victims” of a stoppage time winner by Celtic the week before found themselves on the receiving end of luck this week as Watkins scored for the visitors in the 91st minute. A point apiece seemed about right and the biggest blot on paper being the sending off of Killie's Thomson in the 94th minute. A straight red adjudged to have denied a clear and obvious goal scoring opportunity the young man took “one for the team” for sure.
Motherwells’ impressive league form continued with a 5-0 drubbing of St Mirren, a five star performance underlining the truth that they are possibly the most exciting to watch team in the SPL.
Their first on 14 minutes, a speculative shot hard and low from Just that, after a slew of chances for the visitors found, itself in the net. The game looked destined for more as wave of attack after attack followed but it was the men of steel who doubled their lead on the 30th minute when Zimbabwean international Maswanhise was brought down by the Saints keeper. The big number 18 took the resulting penalty and fired it into the net leaving George grabbing at fresh air and putting ‘Well in a comfortable position going into half time. Controversy is never far away in Scotland and once again a VAR decision for the time being at least saved St Mirren. In the 38th minute Gogic brought down Slattery and Ref Scott brandished a red card to the St Mirren defender. Nick Walsh on VAR (one of our better referees in my opinion) called Scott to take another look and the red was downgraded to a yellow. Probably the right decision in fairness.
Second half and the wave of attack from Motherwell was relentless. Their third was dispatched by Said's deflected shot on 49 minutes. As I said “controversy”, and on 52 mins St Mirren's Richard King was shown a red card for merely flapping at Callum Slattery who deserves an Oscar for his “man hit by missile” performance as he lay on the ground, and the need for a priest was looking inevitable. However, the midfielder made a recovery of Lazarus proportions and managed to complete the match. How blessed we are to see such miracles.
So down to ten and facing an onslaught. Well's fourth wasn’t far away, and defender Longelo slotted away this time. However once again VAR. First judged to be offside the goal was ruled out only for it to be reinstated after a meeting of the men in black and their technology. Possibly the best goal of the match was the last when a beautiful cross for the dependable and talented Priestman was volleyed into the net by Bjorgolfsson to round off what was a perfect evening for the Fir park faithful.
Aberdeen v Dundee didn’t stand out as a “must watch” over the weekend. However, the match itself “wasn’t too bad”
An early goal awarded to Kevin Nesbit (although I’m pretty sure Olusanya got the last touch) put the Dons ahead on 15 mins. Things looked good at this point for the home side but sometimes the fates conspire to punch a hole in your football coupon and so it proved on 39 mins when Aberdeen's Morrison brought down Dundee's Yogane and after (yet another) VAR check was shown a straight red card and Dundee were awarded a penalty. Bulleted into the net by Dundee Captain Murray we had parity, for five mins when just before half time when Aberdeen keeper Bratveit made a mess of a Congreve shot that was bundled into the net by Cotterill to give the boys from Dens a 2-1 lead.
Second half, and without doubt goal of the match - a free kick from easily 25 yards that Aberdeen's Nesbit dispatched over the wall past the keeper and into the net. 2-2.
It has to be said at this point that if it hadn’t been for some outstanding keeping from the Dons Bratveit the scores would have been very different. Although beaten by a speculative long range shot by Hamilton in the 84th minute the lad definitely deserves some plaudits for his performance (mistake aside he was assured and solid in goal).
Sunday didn’t happen
No really it didn’t
We all suffered from some mass delusion probably brought on by eating that cheese you found in the back of the fridge Saturday night.
You’re not buying it are you?
Guess I’m going to have to talk about it then ….
Celtic v Hibs
Livingston v Rangers
Both 3pm kick offs on a miserable damp and dreary February afternoon
Let’s start with Celtic.
I have to be honest here, they’re a very poor team at the moment and no one fears coming to Celtic Park anymore.
Before the match I had told my son I didn’t expect to win this game. I didn’t expect to lose but to me at least a draw looked most likely. In retrospect I’d have taken the draw at 3pm. Don’t get me wrong: there were flashes of brilliance from a few players and some very questionable VAR decisions but Celtic got what they deserved.
After an impressive start to the match a Nygren shot flying just past the post it looked like perhaps the “old Celtic” were back. Just before this however came the first controversial moment when Cvancara was hauled down in the box - no penalty, no VAR review.
24 mins on the clock and a sumptuous cross by Hibs Cadden was met by the head of onrushing Passlack and the men from Easter road were 1-0 ahead. Once again the Celtic defence hardly covered themselves in glory.
We do though still have a few players in this team that play for the jersey and one is Nygren who’s header from a Tierney cross found the net - the Bhoys were level. 1-1 at half time. As good as we could have hoped for I guess.
The second half though was somewhat reminiscent of the Nancy days at Celtic.
Min 74 and the usually reliable Trusty lashed out at Hib's McGrath and was (after the inevitable VAR decision) shown a red card. A 3 game ban awaits. Moments later and Scales was hauled down by Hib's Iredale and what looked like a stonewall penalty to Celtic was adjudged to be worthy of no such punishment by VAR and the game resumed. Other than the most biased of Rangers fans and the VAR team no one in the world watching that thought it was anything but a penalty. This of course sent social media into overdrive and once again calls for consistency have fallen on deaf ears. My last word on this incident - 100% a penalty and a massive “mistake” made by VAR. Mistake 🤔
By this time while Celtic appeared to be going through the motions Hibs smelled blood and a strike from Andrews in the 84th minute past the statuesque Schmeichel sealed the points for Gray's men and a damaging (and in my opinion title ending) defeat on O’Neill's shower of misfits. I wanted away - why should I bother when most of the team aren’t bothered types. Is this the worst Celtic team I’ve ever saw? Honestly, yes, and I’ll be very very surprised if we win any silverware this season. Whilst others including Rangers, Hearts, Motherwell and Hibs are improving and moving forward, Celtic are regressing and need a complete overhaul over the summer or it’s going to be a long season 26/27.
Rangers on the other hand are a different story
A short trip along the M8 awaited Rohl's men and a match against championship bound Livingston.
Three points looked certain for high flying Rangers who, having found form at just the right time, are stringing results together and are easily within catching distance of Hearts.
However the fates decided otherwise and to the surprise of everyone watching it was Livi who took the lead an unstoppable shot from Kabongolo in the 14th minute had the home faithful celebrating (something they haven’t had to do much this season in fairness so who can blame them?) Rangers pressed and pressed for an equaliser but some tremendous keeping from Prior and the Livi defence kept the score at 1-0 at half time. Could we be about to see the shock of the season? Again social media was abuzz with “Livi are winning” posts, and both Hearts and Celtic fans found themselves rooting for the little guy.
Second half and the fans at the Set Fare looked set fair to collecting 3 points as a series of saves and blocks from the Livi defence kept the Rangers at bay. Then an extraordinary moment. The 55th minute and Livingston's Smith found himself in acres of space to fire home past Butland and put Bartley's boys 2-0 ahead. Absolute pandemonium online followed and in the stands a miracle of biblical proportions unfolded before the eyes of West Lothian’s finest.
But this is Danny Rohl's Rangers team and one thing they are is resilient. A never give up attitude that their neighbours across the city could do well to adopt. Livingston of course contributed to their downfall as they have done many times this season, and a clumsy challenge by Montano on Gassama and the red card was shown. With this the rain arrived and so did Rangers first a tremendous shot by Fernandez thundered past Prior and gave the visitors a glimmer of hope in the gloom. 88 mins and just when it looked like Livingston might hold on for all 3 points a wonderful cross by Tavernier was glanced home by Moore and the Rangers fans who braved the weather celebrated enthusiastically knowing just how important a point this might be in the title race. Stoppage time (of which there was 11 mins all in) and a potential penalty to the Rangers was brushed aside by Referee Ryan Lee after what seemed an eternity. The match ended 2-2 and whilst Livingston will feel aggrieved they didn’t hold on they were once again the architects of their own downfall. Rangers however after being two behind have increased the gap between them and third place Celtic and look set to be Hearts biggest title rivals.
Next weeks Glasgow Derby at Ibrox is now a must win for Celtic. Anything but a win and even the most optimistic of fans must accept our title aspirations are over (although as I said before I am already firmly in the camp of “write this one off please”)
I’m off now to watch re-runs of the Ange years … when Celtic were a team and not this massive pile of garbage we’re forced as fans to endure.
Til next time ….
Friday saw Championship leaders St Johnstone dropping points away to Raith Rovers. A match that ended 0-0 and not the result the away team would be hoping for.
Saturday saw their nearest pursuers, Partick, close the gap to 3 points with a hard fought 1-0 victory over Airdrie. A solitary Stanway goal enough for Thistle.
Inverness kept their 5 point advantage over Stenhousemuir with a 1-1 draw at home in this top of the table League One clash.
League Two, and East Kilbride stretched their lead to 5 points over their closest rivals Clyde and Spartans who both have 2 games in hand and the league title rather like the Premiership is looking interesting.
So to the Premier League. With the Glasgow sides both playing on Sunday, league leaders Hearts were handed the chance to extend their lead at the top of the table if they managed to beat a determined Falkirk. This wasn’t a “classic” but it will be remembered as the day Islam saved Hearts. Islam Chesnokovs first goal for the club was all that separated the two and extended McInnes' side's lead at the top of table at least for 24 hours.
Dundee Utd and Kilmarnock fought out a 1-1 draw. Fatah, having missed a penalty for the home side in the first half, atoned for his sin in the second, scoring in the 74th minute. Kilmarnock, the “victims” of a stoppage time winner by Celtic the week before found themselves on the receiving end of luck this week as Watkins scored for the visitors in the 91st minute. A point apiece seemed about right and the biggest blot on paper being the sending off of Killie's Thomson in the 94th minute. A straight red adjudged to have denied a clear and obvious goal scoring opportunity the young man took “one for the team” for sure.
Motherwells’ impressive league form continued with a 5-0 drubbing of St Mirren, a five star performance underlining the truth that they are possibly the most exciting to watch team in the SPL.
Their first on 14 minutes, a speculative shot hard and low from Just that, after a slew of chances for the visitors found, itself in the net. The game looked destined for more as wave of attack after attack followed but it was the men of steel who doubled their lead on the 30th minute when Zimbabwean international Maswanhise was brought down by the Saints keeper. The big number 18 took the resulting penalty and fired it into the net leaving George grabbing at fresh air and putting ‘Well in a comfortable position going into half time. Controversy is never far away in Scotland and once again a VAR decision for the time being at least saved St Mirren. In the 38th minute Gogic brought down Slattery and Ref Scott brandished a red card to the St Mirren defender. Nick Walsh on VAR (one of our better referees in my opinion) called Scott to take another look and the red was downgraded to a yellow. Probably the right decision in fairness.
Second half and the wave of attack from Motherwell was relentless. Their third was dispatched by Said's deflected shot on 49 minutes. As I said “controversy”, and on 52 mins St Mirren's Richard King was shown a red card for merely flapping at Callum Slattery who deserves an Oscar for his “man hit by missile” performance as he lay on the ground, and the need for a priest was looking inevitable. However, the midfielder made a recovery of Lazarus proportions and managed to complete the match. How blessed we are to see such miracles.
So down to ten and facing an onslaught. Well's fourth wasn’t far away, and defender Longelo slotted away this time. However once again VAR. First judged to be offside the goal was ruled out only for it to be reinstated after a meeting of the men in black and their technology. Possibly the best goal of the match was the last when a beautiful cross for the dependable and talented Priestman was volleyed into the net by Bjorgolfsson to round off what was a perfect evening for the Fir park faithful.
Aberdeen v Dundee didn’t stand out as a “must watch” over the weekend. However, the match itself “wasn’t too bad”
An early goal awarded to Kevin Nesbit (although I’m pretty sure Olusanya got the last touch) put the Dons ahead on 15 mins. Things looked good at this point for the home side but sometimes the fates conspire to punch a hole in your football coupon and so it proved on 39 mins when Aberdeen's Morrison brought down Dundee's Yogane and after (yet another) VAR check was shown a straight red card and Dundee were awarded a penalty. Bulleted into the net by Dundee Captain Murray we had parity, for five mins when just before half time when Aberdeen keeper Bratveit made a mess of a Congreve shot that was bundled into the net by Cotterill to give the boys from Dens a 2-1 lead.
Second half, and without doubt goal of the match - a free kick from easily 25 yards that Aberdeen's Nesbit dispatched over the wall past the keeper and into the net. 2-2.
It has to be said at this point that if it hadn’t been for some outstanding keeping from the Dons Bratveit the scores would have been very different. Although beaten by a speculative long range shot by Hamilton in the 84th minute the lad definitely deserves some plaudits for his performance (mistake aside he was assured and solid in goal).
Sunday didn’t happen
No really it didn’t
We all suffered from some mass delusion probably brought on by eating that cheese you found in the back of the fridge Saturday night.
You’re not buying it are you?
Guess I’m going to have to talk about it then ….
Celtic v Hibs
Livingston v Rangers
Both 3pm kick offs on a miserable damp and dreary February afternoon
Let’s start with Celtic.
I have to be honest here, they’re a very poor team at the moment and no one fears coming to Celtic Park anymore.
Before the match I had told my son I didn’t expect to win this game. I didn’t expect to lose but to me at least a draw looked most likely. In retrospect I’d have taken the draw at 3pm. Don’t get me wrong: there were flashes of brilliance from a few players and some very questionable VAR decisions but Celtic got what they deserved.
After an impressive start to the match a Nygren shot flying just past the post it looked like perhaps the “old Celtic” were back. Just before this however came the first controversial moment when Cvancara was hauled down in the box - no penalty, no VAR review.
24 mins on the clock and a sumptuous cross by Hibs Cadden was met by the head of onrushing Passlack and the men from Easter road were 1-0 ahead. Once again the Celtic defence hardly covered themselves in glory.
We do though still have a few players in this team that play for the jersey and one is Nygren who’s header from a Tierney cross found the net - the Bhoys were level. 1-1 at half time. As good as we could have hoped for I guess.
The second half though was somewhat reminiscent of the Nancy days at Celtic.
Min 74 and the usually reliable Trusty lashed out at Hib's McGrath and was (after the inevitable VAR decision) shown a red card. A 3 game ban awaits. Moments later and Scales was hauled down by Hib's Iredale and what looked like a stonewall penalty to Celtic was adjudged to be worthy of no such punishment by VAR and the game resumed. Other than the most biased of Rangers fans and the VAR team no one in the world watching that thought it was anything but a penalty. This of course sent social media into overdrive and once again calls for consistency have fallen on deaf ears. My last word on this incident - 100% a penalty and a massive “mistake” made by VAR. Mistake 🤔
By this time while Celtic appeared to be going through the motions Hibs smelled blood and a strike from Andrews in the 84th minute past the statuesque Schmeichel sealed the points for Gray's men and a damaging (and in my opinion title ending) defeat on O’Neill's shower of misfits. I wanted away - why should I bother when most of the team aren’t bothered types. Is this the worst Celtic team I’ve ever saw? Honestly, yes, and I’ll be very very surprised if we win any silverware this season. Whilst others including Rangers, Hearts, Motherwell and Hibs are improving and moving forward, Celtic are regressing and need a complete overhaul over the summer or it’s going to be a long season 26/27.
Rangers on the other hand are a different story
A short trip along the M8 awaited Rohl's men and a match against championship bound Livingston.
Three points looked certain for high flying Rangers who, having found form at just the right time, are stringing results together and are easily within catching distance of Hearts.
However the fates decided otherwise and to the surprise of everyone watching it was Livi who took the lead an unstoppable shot from Kabongolo in the 14th minute had the home faithful celebrating (something they haven’t had to do much this season in fairness so who can blame them?) Rangers pressed and pressed for an equaliser but some tremendous keeping from Prior and the Livi defence kept the score at 1-0 at half time. Could we be about to see the shock of the season? Again social media was abuzz with “Livi are winning” posts, and both Hearts and Celtic fans found themselves rooting for the little guy.
Second half and the fans at the Set Fare looked set fair to collecting 3 points as a series of saves and blocks from the Livi defence kept the Rangers at bay. Then an extraordinary moment. The 55th minute and Livingston's Smith found himself in acres of space to fire home past Butland and put Bartley's boys 2-0 ahead. Absolute pandemonium online followed and in the stands a miracle of biblical proportions unfolded before the eyes of West Lothian’s finest.
But this is Danny Rohl's Rangers team and one thing they are is resilient. A never give up attitude that their neighbours across the city could do well to adopt. Livingston of course contributed to their downfall as they have done many times this season, and a clumsy challenge by Montano on Gassama and the red card was shown. With this the rain arrived and so did Rangers first a tremendous shot by Fernandez thundered past Prior and gave the visitors a glimmer of hope in the gloom. 88 mins and just when it looked like Livingston might hold on for all 3 points a wonderful cross by Tavernier was glanced home by Moore and the Rangers fans who braved the weather celebrated enthusiastically knowing just how important a point this might be in the title race. Stoppage time (of which there was 11 mins all in) and a potential penalty to the Rangers was brushed aside by Referee Ryan Lee after what seemed an eternity. The match ended 2-2 and whilst Livingston will feel aggrieved they didn’t hold on they were once again the architects of their own downfall. Rangers however after being two behind have increased the gap between them and third place Celtic and look set to be Hearts biggest title rivals.
Next weeks Glasgow Derby at Ibrox is now a must win for Celtic. Anything but a win and even the most optimistic of fans must accept our title aspirations are over (although as I said before I am already firmly in the camp of “write this one off please”)
I’m off now to watch re-runs of the Ange years … when Celtic were a team and not this massive pile of garbage we’re forced as fans to endure.
Til next time ….
🐼 Gary Robertson is the TPQ Scottish football correspondent.
The Celtic board couldn’t have made a better job of making a complete clusterfuck of this season if they had taken a template from a Rangers supporters club. From a position of strength, they have somehow contrived to deliver a team assembled on the cheap with this current crop a pale shadow of previous Celtic sides. Absolute shambles and tbh, they don’t deserve the title. If they somehow win it, Hearts and Rangers should kick themselves with nail studded boots
ReplyDeleteA "Potential" penalty? On what planet was it anything other? And to give absolutely nothing for it was bizarre bordering on outright corruption. How the hell did the ref give Livi a drop ball??
ReplyDeleteAnd the injury time was due to the Livi players acting like they'd be shot every time they were tackled and rolled about the floor like an Italian in Italia 90.
Anyway, just irked by the state of refs in particular. This season is a write off due to the Martin factor so always next year.
Anyone for tennis? lol