Dallas Jr. was useless and I feel he is settling some old scores on behalf of his disgraced old man. So many decisions wrong, and every one of them has an impact (however minor). Make no mistake, this was part of Operation Stop Celtic. I know we played poorly, very poorly, but despite this there was no level playing field. Those who feel we can win every week in the face of distinctly questionable refereeing have short memories! Playing shite and being treated like shite are too different things. Against St. Mirren we were not treated fairly......and that was obvious from the first minute assault on one of our star players......I am not sure he fully recovered from it.
I agree that our culture in Scotland with its inherent clandestine hatred of Celtic must end. The refereeing problem like all other systemic problems in Scottish game where any kind of prejudice which leads to bias and in some cases extreme bias must be addressed.
There are whole host of dubious referees and apparently there is history of referees mostly becoming Rangers season ticket holders after they stop being refs. I have seen many refs with some really odd decisions in important games for Celtic that have cost points for Celtic without any kind of recourse to justice.
I have also watched refs make bizarre decisions in important games give Rangers points they didn't deserve.
The bias and history of strange decisions pro Rangers and anti Celtic is enduring and a serious disadvantage. The general trend consistently over many years apparently paint6s a strange tendency for a significant bias being in favour of the anti-Catholic teams.
But in that game last night I am not convinced the obvious bias from Dallas on numerous occasions, including the ones you mention, had any real bearing on the actual result on the night.
Having said that I still think Dallas should be brought to task on the odd bias he showed even though it didn't, in my opinion, have any real bearing on that particular match.
Celtic were Gash, Ntcham deserved red, the other poor ref decisions may have made game even less likely celtic would score. But really I don't think on this occasion the biased ref really had a bearing on the result, maybe resulted in St Mirren getting less cards than they deserved, but Celtic were gash, St mirren played well enough top get a draw.
St Mirrens decent defensive display had much more bearing on the scoreline, coupled with Celtics poor offence.
I hate the name Dallas. I do indeed suspect he is likely to be biased against Celtic just like his dodgy namesake, no Idea if he is related to the Hugh Dallas that was bigot, but if he is then it highlights the very problem within SFA that needs investigation.
But I won't be blaming Dallas for our lack of 3 points, despite his odd bias in the game. But he should be reprimanded and took to task for his inconsistency and strange calls that on replay are clearly dodgy.