Journalist Andrew Dickson has given his view on Celtic and their attitudes towards referees following a stretch of decisions in the Scottish Premiership.
Celtic boss Ange Postecoglou has been very vocal at times this season about the standard of refereeing in Scotland, even lodging a complaint with the SFA following comments made by referees’ chief Crawford Allan back in December.
Most recently, he slammed referee Don Robertson after he thought he failed to adequately punish Mouhamed Niang for a tackle that the Alloa Athletic man made on Celtic’s Yosuke Ideguchi in the Hoops’ recent cup tie.
However, taking to Twitter, Dickson observed how Celtic have often been up in arms about the standards of refereeing performances, but that there didn’t seem to be too much noise coming from Celtic Park now that there appeared to be decisions going against their Old Firm rivals, such as this weekend when Ryan Jack could have been sent off for a tackle on Dundee United’s Dylan Levitt:
TIF Thoughts on Andrew Dickson’s comments about Celtic and refereeing decisions…
Do you expect Celtic to win the league now?
Yes
No
It is a tale as old as time in football that every club and their fans think that there are agendas from certain referees or authorities that are ‘out to get them’, when really it’s largely just heat of the moment stuff where there isn’t usually anything substantial that people can use to back those theories up.
And whilst it’s understandable to have these sorts of views in the middle of what looks like it’s going to be a very tight title race, managers like Postecoglou should be focusing more on what they can control rather than the referees themselves.
At the end of the day, it’s not going to do them a lot of good, and it’s just wasting time and energy that can be spent elsewhere.
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