Gollum's new KMI Panel outcomes have released their latest decisions from last weekend's top flight fixtures and after a 'lengthy' discussion over the incident involving Daizen Maeda and Stephen O'Donnell, they have came to the majority decision that a spot-kick should have been awarded to Celtic as there was indeed a penalty incident before the handball.
"The panel deemed this to be a correct intervention for a handball which led directly to a goal. The panel agreed this is a difficult incident for the Referee to identify, however also agreed that the Assistant Referee should have identified this offense on-field. After a lengthy discussion on the incident, the majority (4:1) of the panel deemed this should have firstly been identified as a foul by the on-field Referee and an on-field review should have been recommended by the VAR when the penalty was not awarded. As the goal was correctly ruled out for handball, the majority of the panel (4:1) felt the penalty-kick should have been awarded as this offence occurred before the handball. One panel member felt the decision not to award the penalty-kick was correct and that no intervention was required.”
So one "expert" actually thought that this was NOT a penalty! And yet again, it comes far too late to do us any good.
Hunbelievably, they also said that the ref was correct not to send off Connor Barron for kicking an opponent in the face in an incident much worse than Yang "correctly" saw red for! They did say that he could have been booked for it though. I never saw any mention of the penalty St Mirren were not awarded at Ibrokes, but I think we all know how they would have voted for this incident too.
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