All season long Celtic fans have had to put up with watching Rangers get favourable refereeing decisions to keep them in the title race.
Regular readers will know that we refer to them as ‘patterns of assistance‘ because if you don’t, then you get accused of being paranoid.
The media won’t touch this subject with a bargepole so then, it is up to bloggers and Celtic fans to keep it in the limelight.
And as Celtic despatched Hearts 3-0 at Parkhead on Saturday, all the pressure was on Rangers heading into their game against Kilmarnock. Well, until VAR stepped in that is.
‘Rank-rotten’ officials are keeping Rangers close to Celtic
I will be covering a piece later today about penalties that have been awarded to Rangers at a crucial stage in five Scottish Premiership games.
And yesterday was no different. The decision to award a penalty for a handball is not in question. It’s the following red card that ensued.
It was a clear case of double jeopardy that Kilmarnock defender, Joe Wright, could not avoid and that is exactly what Bill Leckie wrote in his column last night.
Leckie said (The Scottish Sun), “Was it a penalty when the ball hit their centre-back Joe Wright’s hand as he tried to stop Dujon Sterling forcing the ball home from a yard out?
“Course it was. Not even our rank-rotten VAR Squad could miss something that obvious.
“To send the boy off too, though? For something he had absolutely no control over?
“Sorry, but if ever a decision proved how little the people who make the rules know about the game itself, this was it.”
We have been highlighting these kinds of decisions all season on Born Celtic and yesterday’s latest one joins a long list of assistance the Rangers have been getting so they can keep up in the title race.
It would be interesting to see how the games where Rangers got penalties at crucial stages in games would have panned out if they were not awarded.
My guess? The league title would already be over by now.
