The person , who was given the task of refereeing yesterday's game should be removed from refereeing Spl games . Not only did he give Dundee United a penalty when Adam Matthews tackled in text book style sweeping the ball out for a corner. What the bigot said afterwards was even worse, when asked about the penalty, he thought he was funny saying it was for Matthews holding. Now I know that Scottish referees hate Celtic, but does that give them the right to do what Dallas thought was funny and make fun at Celtic and Celtic values.
I may have missed it but I looked at the incident a few times and Adam James Matthews committed no foul whatsoever as far as I could see. The club should certainly take this further in order to ensure that this referee either improves his performance or is not allowed to referee any more games as it was a disgraceful decision.
I think we should organise a march in protest at that penalty , maybe to sfa headquarters or bbc main office
If we had lost the game by a single goal, as a result of that penalty being scored, would you still feel the same?
Referees are paid good money (especially in Scotland ) considering their lack of talent, Or their bias. I absolutely think it is ridiculous for Tom the Cat say it was only one decision, no football fan would say that. The main problem I have was that it wasn't the matter of the referee missing something, that is forgivable , but of seeing something that didn't happen. The ref couldn't possibly have seen a foul, yet he gave one.
Fair enough but that particular mistake was atrocious and in another game could have been crucial to the result. I'm not saying we should complain at every mistake made by referees - far from it - but if we only complain about atrocious decisions when we lose, it looks like sour grapes, whereas a better balance could be seen to be struck by addressing them win or lose.
The rules are wrong, referees should be required to clarify after the match why they made any controversial decisions. By simply explaining his reason(s) for making the decision (s) and that over a period of time, say a season would show if a particular referee was capable of controlling a match or should his name be filed under Dallas , and he given all the time he needs to follow his favourite team.
