BBC: Blatantly biased (against) Celtic
Who is worse? BBC or SFA
Before we start, let’s make it very clear. Celtic were very poor against Falkirk and as usual, have only themselves to blame for dropping vital points in the title race. If Celtic are unable to get back into the title race, missed chances and poor defending will live large in the reasons for a poor overall showing.
This site said in their post match review that the Falkirk goal may have came about through a foul by Showunmi on McManus but after viewing footage, you have to say that McManus was extremely weak. It is certainly not the first time that McManus has been outmuscled and the player surely has to question what value he brings to the team?
So, all in all, Celtic are poor, that’s fair enough.
That said though, when you are continually on the receiving end of terrible refereeing decisions, the games that are tight are not going to go your way. If Celtic were good enough to blow away the opposition, the refs wouldn’t matter but when things are in the balance, it can make the difference between 3 points and 1 or none.
With so much media attention on Celtic games, you would surely expect these decisions to be highlighted?
Well…..here is a link to the BBC highlights of the game.
When you consider the penalty Rangers were awarded last weekend at Hamilton, you would have to say the handball by Pele of Falkirk late on should have been given. In all honesty, neither of them should have been given as THEY WEREN’T PENALTIES but one was given….strangely enough.
Aside from this, two outrageous pieces of officialdom were deemed not worthy of making the BBC footage.
How often do you see a goalkeeper penalised for carrying the ball outside the box when launching a kick up the field?
Virtually never. So when it does happen, you would expect it to be noteworthy?
Not in the eyes of the BBC.
As the picture shows, it was a terrible decision by the assistant referee and one which managed to eat up two minutes of game time before play resumed. It also gave Falkirk a great chance for a second goal, with Artur Boruc’s positioning once again very suspect.
From the goal kick given after the free-kick went narrowly over the top, Celtic broke up the park.
Marc Antoine Fortune turned his man at the edge of the box to get inside, where he was then hauled down by the defender. With the score at 1-1, a penalty would have given yet another Celtic player the opportunity to miss from 12 yards…but who knows, for once, they may just have scored?!?!
We’ll never know as referee Muir decided it wasn’t a penalty.
And those who weren’t at the game will never know as the BBC deemed it was not worthy of being included in the match highlights.
A blatant penalty claim within the last 5 minutes of a match that finished 1-1 and it is not a major talking point? It is a rather remarkable call by the editing team at Sportscene and one that deserves to be highlighted.
The BBC would be as well saving the money they spend on their woefully inadequate football coverage and putting it into their comedy output. Oh wait, that is fairly horrific as well. Perhaps restoring their news output to focus solely on news as opposed to serving as a trailer for their other shows could be a start?
As we said, Celtic were terrible and they have been rightly criticised from some quarters and laughed at by others. Such is the nature of Scottish football.
However, the officials and the BBC deserve to be slaughtered as well….and you just know that is not going to happen on any real basis.
After all, when Tony Mowbray is quite happy to take it all on the chin, why should paying customers want anything better?
For those who want to see the missing highlights, look below. It also features the clip that shows why Lee Naylor is poorer than a dead fox, let alone Danny Fox.
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“Many a mickle maks a muckle”
Anyone who done techy drawing at school knows the phrase, ‘accumulative error”, and knows ït doesn’t “all even out in the end”.
A wee bit there and a wee millimeter there and you end up a mile away from where your final point SHOULD be.
There is no, ‘well if I’m a half mill out one way, chances are I’ll be a mill out the other way later and “it’ll all even out in the end”.
It doesn’t work like that.
Fasten your seatbelts folks as the huns are given every assistance, media wise, financially and by SFA/SPL officials, on their way to 2.
SAME AS IT EVER WAS
This has to be written by a hun, right? Surely no self respecting tim would put such stereotype reinforcing, cringe worthy drivel out for public airing.
score more than your opponents that usually gets you 3 points no a ref, a linesman ,a keeper ,the media ,the sfa,the spl,waw unbelievable
The main thrust of this article is the glaring omissions in the bbc highlights of the celtic v falkirk game yesterday and I have to agree wholeheartedly with it.
I was amazed that the Fortune appeal was not included, but as the saying goes ‘Same as it ever was’.
p.s How Lee Naylor ever got near a celtic jersey is beyond me, a complete embarrassment.
big arfurs feet were in the box his belly wiz oot it
You seem to think the Rangers penalty was unjust but fail to mention how laughable the Hamilton one was. In short: get it right up ye.
oh the bitter tims are clutching at anything now, anything and anyone except themselves. deny and deflect, eh! bernie im sure the word h*n is illegal now in Scotland, you cant go saying stuff like that. we welcome the chase
Now NitsyBear – that isnt very nice language.
The point in question was about handballs – therefore, the relevancy was about handball decisions, hence the comparison.
The Broadfoot shove on the player was very soft and if given every week would result in about 6 penalties a match. Which is why it was a surprise why it was given.
The article was at pains to point out how bad Celtic were Peter….we take no responsibility for reader comments…unless they go way over the line.
We are discussing how much leeway we should give to posters…there have been a few terms from Celtic and Rangers fans that could well do with being off the site – we don’t particularly want to over-censor….but sometimes it has to be done.
We’ll take your point about that on board. Cheers.
more to do with how everyone is against yous the ref ,linesman,sfa,spl,media,ball boy,weatherman[ie minus 9]
Ruiri, what effing tangeble bearing does it have on anything that certain incidents are left out during the editing process of a 90+min match in to a 5 mins highlights package? What’s more likely to be the case: the left leaning BBC are running a pedantic agenda against Celtic and it’s fans through it’s highlights editing policy. Or, you and the author are a couple self-indulgent, self-pittying losers who’s pirocial little minds lead them to such ridiculous conclusions, despite the obvious unsound rational.
We dropped points yesterday, as we have all season, because of our profligacy at front and back and the devil-may-care tactical naivity of our coaching staff.
But it seems some primatives think the content of BBC scotland’s editing suite floor is of equal or more relevance than the blatant tangeble deficiences displyed on the field of play.
Seriously, lads, it’s so effing boring and only serves to do our rivals work by embarrassing our support as a whole and you as individuals.
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Hun is a generic term for enemy and has no historical sectarian conotations. Is it offensive to those who it is directed at? Certainly. However, I’m sure man u fans find being called scummers by all and sundry quite offensive too but as it breaks no laws then there not a lot one can do but grin and bear it really.
Peter, here’s a stick, son, go shake it at the moon.
a hun was a german aeroplane in the war
A hun was the name given to the german soldiers in general, not their planes. Its origins lie in the name of the conqueror Atilla the Hun, whose army were considered vile savages. If the shoe fits, wear it. 8-p
As I said all the stops are being pulled out to increase Rangers financial streams,I honestly would be embarrassed to support them,52/3 titles? LOL
Seriously, you lot are hillarious.
It is all a worldwide conspiricy!
I’ve been monitoring this website for a short time now, some of the articles have been rather decent and refreshing, I have to say however that this one is cringe worthy at best. The author is either a Rangers fan at the wind up or a Celtic fan happy to trot out the old line about refereeing in Scotland. Remember the season when Rangers had their run to the Uefa Cup Final, there were two clear refereeing decsions that had a huge bearing on the title landing at Parkhead. Zander Diamonds disallowed goal and a Celtic penalty (can’t remember the exact game) that was shown to be a very poor and incorrect decision. These things happen in football and we must overcome this pathetic nonsense that the ‘officials’ or even crazier notion trotted out on Radio Scotland on Saturday, the ‘establishment’ is somehow out to get Celtic. It’s a common theme when Celtic lose or drop points, deary me the defence is awful, the midfield consists of Aiden McGeady and the strikeforce couldn’t score on a plate! The new manager seems out of his depth and has sanctioned the sale of your best defensive midfielder and doesn’t rate your top goalscorer! Look in before looking out guy’s!
Bernie (presuming a Celtic supporter) makes a very valid point in his first post, although you do let yourself down with your comments about ‘hun’. Would you like it if I started referring to Celtic supporters as ‘fenians’ you see fenian is an historical reference to Irish warriors, yet is deemed sectarian now, the anti sectarian organisation, Nil By Mouth, has also classed the word ‘hun’ as sectarian.
You can’t have the offended notion when it suits lads and not allow it the other way.
Giggidy giggidy Quagmire.
The Diamond goal? The one where the whistle blew for the foul – players stopped and the Diamond put the ball in the net?
That one? From the same game when Samaras did the exact same thing twice?
See..what you recall is the media uproar about Celtic getting the decision…not the game itself.
As for recalling the penalty – good luck with that.
The other “bad” decisions Celtic got in the run-in to that season were:
Scott McDonalds opening goal v Rangers in the 3-2 game…maybe offside?
Nakamura being “fouled” twenty-five yards from goal against St Mirren…which the Japanese player still had to score from.
A corner against Motherwell which should have been a bye-kick, Celtic scored from it. In injury time in this game, Potter of Motherwell put the ball out of play, ref gave a corner. Just because Motherwell never scored from it doesnt make it any less of a decision.
The article did try to flag up Celtic’s failing as well – which has obviously been ignored by the rabids and the uncle tims – but you would think the beeb would have had them in their highlights package.
Why does everyone refer to Zander Diamonds “disallowed” goal? The ref blew the whistle before the ball went into the net. So for the hard of thinking here, whistle before goal scored = no goal scored.
The article wasnt mean to deflect attention from Celtic – their poorness has been documented a few times over this weekend on the site. You dont have to look hard to find criticism of Celtic’s performance.
We just don’t like the BBC very much!!!!
ha ha ha ha ha Peter (doesn’t read the same as it sounds! Alrigghhht!
Your memory on a Monday morning is slighty better than mines, I’ll give you that. As for the incidents being left out of the highlights on Saturday, I would say it’s more of a failing on behalf of the inadequate BBC sports team, than any agenda against Celtic. There have been many important incidents left out of their highlights package, indeed only at the recent Old Firm game, Kris Boyds chance from the 18 yard line (deemed incorrectly offside by those Masonic officials) was shown without reply to highlight such a crucial decision, should we assume that the Celtic fans editing that clip were somehow not interested in a decision that goes against the regurgitated mantra of the oppressed ones?
No, we live in an insular wee world here, where crackpots (from both sides it has to be said) seem to think the world is against them.
Bernie lad, “h*n” is a pejorative, RACIST term used to describe a German person, and it’s this exact etymology that the GFITW are employing when they use it (the implication being that supporters of a monarchy with German origins are fair targets for 70 year old racist dogma). So don’t act it.
Quagmire…..the thing is, I am one of those paranoid Celtic fans!
They incidents have been reeled off so many times by the media, its easy enough for me to recall them – apologies for being so anal on a Monday morning…(and as Peter would say, hehehehe, he said anal)
It will be worthwhile keeping track on the site to see if the writer continues to dig up the Beeb for missing big moments..or if it was just a Celtic rant.
How many penalties are Hearts getting this season? Michael Stewart will have probably outscored any Celtic player if this current form (of both teams) continue?
Ach, just a bit scunnered with it all…shut up Meg.
cant believe it sky sports never showed big costas alleged pen that will be that andy gray editing it oot .or i think richard keys wifes uncle was at a rangers game once .or maybe the producers a mason oh no the worlds against us. ha ha ha cmon the gers
you obviously know nothing about the masons not all masons are Rangers supporters .
Quagmire
Zander Diamond did NOT have a disallowed goal,the whistle blew before he struck the ball in the net,I remember it clearly,I also remember in that game after that incident Samaras had a perfectly good goal disallowed.
Listen,I know you dont like it,you are a Rangers fan but the fact is,most officials in Scotland grew up supporting Rangers,the guys that run the game in Scotland also grew up supporting and playing for Rangers,your club is lauded as the 2nd biggest institution in Scotland after the CoS,of course you mean more to more people in Scotland and especially at a time when your club has come close going out of business,you are being helped,you cannot deny it.
As for the term “Hun”,there is nothing racist in it whatsoever,its a derogatory term for a Rangers fan that is all,its funny how you can all claim to be offended by it with some of vile you lot spout.
Hmmm seem to remember Diamonds ‘goal’ going in roughly the same time as the referee’s whistle for the mythical ‘handball’ that never was. Anyway, my thinking is clear, I know that the refereeing standard in Scotland is shocking, to say they favour either side of the Old Firm divide is nonsense, they make continual mistakes, because of the goldfish bowl that exists up here, we constantly here the paranoia line coming out, funny though it normally doesn’t come out until Celtic drop points or lose an Old Firm match?
I’m loving all this establishment and institution nonsense though, it’s deflecting from the real issues that Celtic have on the park with both players and the management team looking somewhat confused.
Remember your last title success, the ‘Sporting Integrity’ title. 4 games in 8 days for Rangers at the behest of peter Lawell and his threats to go to court? Incidentally, how was the end of season trip to Japan that year? Seem to recall Celtic citing that the season couldn’t be extended because of that?
And as for the point scoring regarding terns like Huns/Fenians both sets of fans are far from Angels and spare me the my lot are better than your lot.
I wouldn’t be so surprised, ’tis all in the name… ‘British Broadcasting Corporation’ which flags do you see fling in the south of Glasgow and which ones do you see in the east. BBC brainwashing corp.
If rangers were not on course for 2 then they would be facing administration, this is why rangers will mutifactorially be ensured victory this season.
Well….they shoehorned the incidents in at the end…out-with the match highlights.
On one hand, fair play to the Beeb for actually getting the footage shown…but on another tip, why werent they considered worth including in the actual highlights, as they were far more contentious than some of the incidents included in the highlights.
Does BBC not mean Bellahouston Bowling Club???????
9twc67: I’ve explained exactly were the word “h*n” comes from, and you offer no counter-argument. Funny how when the boot is on the other foot it’s always banter and craic eh? How about songs glorifying the murder of Nacho Novo? Is that not vile? Or the refrain that goes “soon there will be no Protestants at all”…is that also vile? How about the multitude of songs glorifying the IRA, are those vile? People in glass houses, my tiny-brained friend.
As for the refereeing debate, it’s amazing how quickly people forget. Leaving aside the fact that Fortune’s goal was correctly disallowed in the Old Firm game…anyone remember certain offside decisions last season that cost The Rangers points at Motherwell among others? Even this season we’ve seen a laughable red card for Kenny Miller the week before an Old Firm game…is that a conspiracy? I’d laugh if it wasn’t so tragic. There are some decent Celtic fans on this thread who realise where the problems are. My sympathies are with them that they have to share a stadium with some of the idiots on display.
dannybhoy love it man! haha, it may as well be bellahouston bowling club, neither are helping the cause, full of balls the 2 of them
4 games in 8 days at the behest of Peter Lawwell? are you mad? so did Peter Lawwell sit down at the start of the season and structure the league and cup fixtures or do you just want to try n hide the fact Rangers wanted to cheat their way to success?
LOL
NitsyBear
There is nothing at all wrong with the word Hun in the context of it aimed at a Rangers fan and for the record,the Nacho Novo song was sung once at CP to widespread condemnation by most Celtic fans,we do not sing that at all anymore,it had a very,very short shelf life.
And you have a cheek being offended by the term Hun when your support sings TFS and has a hatred campaign against Jock Stein.
also the song which has “Soon there will be no Protestants at all” is not sung anywhere,it was a precursor to the Soldiers Song many moons ago,you will never hear that line sung by Celtic fans in any ground,”North men South men” is not sung by us anymore.
As for the Fortune goal,THAT was a goal and besides that example there has been a multitude of other decisions denied to us whilst Rangers have had some of the softest decisions you will ever see.
YOU ARE BEING HELPED BECAUSE YOUR VERY EXISTENCE IS IN QUESTION!
9.67
You indeed are correct, the whole of Scotland will get behind the Rangers because our very existence is at risk, are you for real?
We have debts of £31M that the bank have stated must be reduced by £1M per annum, we are a trading business that can service the debt, how is that comparable to going bust?
Now MIH is in a perilous state, that we are a part of the group dictates that we are part of the solution for Lloyds to get some money back in exchange for assets, mainly us.
Granted with no money to invest in players and the best players being sold, we would encounter a decline, to suggest going out of business though is sheer and utter folly on your part and any other paranoid Celtic fans for that matter.
As a Celtic fan you should be looking at your own issues, 9 points behind a Rangers team that has bought players for 2 seasons, a team that your manager says needs 10 new additions? It’s not looking to clever.
Please, please, please dispense with the Fortune ‘goal’ nonsense, like one of your fellow supporters stated about Diamond earlier, the brother, oops sorry Ref, blew the whistle before the ball went into the net, so no goal my friend.
Anyway, the establishment regional meeting is fast approaching, got to make sure Ra Sellick are being kept where they belong!
PS – Wrapping yourself in tinfoil might just stop the wee green men coming for you! LOL (thats Laugh Out Loud, not Loyal Orange Lodge as we in the establishment like to use!!)
9twc67,
I’ve explained the origin of the word “h*n” and no matter how much you wriggle, how much you want to believe it isn’t true, the plain fact is that it is a racist term and it’s racist connotations are EXACTLY why you use it to describe Rangers fans. Funnily enough, context and history are often used to justify the use of the word “f*nian” and such claims are rightly shouted down. Grow up and accept that you routinely use racially abusive language. As for the point-scoring over the songs that are sung, I could find a dozen YouTube videos in 5 minutes to illustrate my point, as I’m sure you could. Quit the whiter than white act, no-one is fooled. The truth is that the extreme bigots aren’t the bigger threat to your club, you can spot them a mile away…it’s people like you who don’t even recognise the flaws in their own behaviour that are the real danger.
Incidentally chaps, anyone spot a stonewall penalty denied to the Rangers in tonight’s cup tie? Conspiracy? No. Just a bad ref. Get over yourselves.
nitsy,
Explain to me why, both before and during WW2, Celtic AND Rangers fans called each other Huns (as in the enemy) ? Your crackpot theory about it relating to the german ancestry of your beloved spongers, er, I mean Royal family is absurd and bordering on lunacy. Again, give an explanation as to why ALL Scottish clubs refer to your sacred institution a s ‘Huns’?
Also, what is ‘the routinely racist language’ that Celtic fans continually use? Would it be the same language directed to Maurice Edu from a section of his own supporters?
Many questions. I await your answers.
BTW, we were rank rotten on Saturday and the beebs highlights programme is shite.