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“The selective outrage is a bit hypocritical” – Celtic fan calls out Scottish media after VAR blunders

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I take my hat off to this man.

He is just saying what every Celtic fan has been thinking.

The media coverage of the VAR decisions that we seemingly benefit from far outweighs that of the decision that we don’t.

It has been a bugbear of mine ever since the new technology has come in and, if we are all completely honest, it gives them (the media) the opportunity to hit back and label us as paranoid whilst allowing them to also say, ‘Look VAR works in your favour too!

But when you look at the reality of the situation, our club has probably been the one that has been hammered most with dubious decisions going against us and this Celtic fan brilliantly articulated his point.

Speaking on Clyde 1 Superscoreboard, the Celtic fan said, “I think what really bothers me over the weekend was some of the selective media coverage of the decisions.

“As a Celtic fan, I’m not going to deny that the Giakoumakis one could have been a penalty.

“What’s not been brought up is there was a similar incident involving Cameron Carter-Vickers, I think it was just before the goal for Maeda, three Kilmarnock players all over him.

“Nothing given. They just dragged him to the ground. Nothing given.

“Ben Davies yesterday on Liam Scales, a Celtic player, dragged him to the ground. All over him. Nothing given.

“And yet the Celtic one has been highlighted because we benefited from it.

“Reo Hatate’s goal. I don’t understand why we didn’t get a penalty for that because Callum McGregor’s shot comes off a Kilmarnock player doing another Michael Jordan impersonation.

“It just comes off his hand which is in the air.

“So why are we not given a penalty for that?

“It again is another decision that the media has decided not to highlight whereas with the ones that we’ve got, so to speak, the referees have got wrong have been highlighted.

“I just think the selective outrage is a bit hypocritical.”

Now what isn’t surprising is that Gordon Duncan completely brushed over his broader point, which was about the media coverage, and turned it into a conversation on how VAR worked for us over the weekend rather than worked against us.

Very clever from the radio host, but unsurprising all the same.

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  • James Barker says:

    I agree 100%,we have been on the wrong end of a number of decisions in regards to VAR over the season and what a shocker while Kent was elbow ing Scales in the face nothing was seen VAR was down but the SFA can’t go to the TV replays
    The media is right we must be paranoid,I think it’s a joke.

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