Bridie Bhoy
Well-known member
The thing with the Buttland/Kyogo incident is we all saw it at the time. But probably many people were like me and assumed that Kyogo had gotten in the way of the goalie who fended him off and the result was the much bigger player had accidently knocked him over.
I was wrong. Buttland went out f his way to grab hold of Kyogo and violently hurl him to the deck.
But Sky pay people money to review incidents like these immediately to show replays of major incidents. They ignored this incident.
The clubs pay the Lanarkshire Referees Association huge amounts of money to have fully qualifed referees sit in a room (ludge?) instantly review replays from every angle to determine if the onfield ref missed any major incidents. They can - and very regularly do - even force the ref to hold up play if necessary to make sure they can properly review it. They too must have seen a Celtic player go flying to the ground inside the goalie's box and due diligence should mean they at least look at it.
I am certain there was no mention of a VAR review in progress which implies they didn't even look at this strange incident - if they had then it would have been a penalty to Celtic and probable red card for the sevvie goalie.
Yet they are crayoning a complaint because the laws were applied correctly!??!?!
I was wrong. Buttland went out f his way to grab hold of Kyogo and violently hurl him to the deck.
But Sky pay people money to review incidents like these immediately to show replays of major incidents. They ignored this incident.
The clubs pay the Lanarkshire Referees Association huge amounts of money to have fully qualifed referees sit in a room (ludge?) instantly review replays from every angle to determine if the onfield ref missed any major incidents. They can - and very regularly do - even force the ref to hold up play if necessary to make sure they can properly review it. They too must have seen a Celtic player go flying to the ground inside the goalie's box and due diligence should mean they at least look at it.
I am certain there was no mention of a VAR review in progress which implies they didn't even look at this strange incident - if they had then it would have been a penalty to Celtic and probable red card for the sevvie goalie.
Yet they are crayoning a complaint because the laws were applied correctly!??!?!