Motherwell manager’s bizarre Celtic red card claim not one fan will agree with

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I always find this strange.

How are current serving managers and players allowed to go onto radio phone in shows and football shows and pass opinion on games and refereeing decisions in games that are of no concern to them?

I find the whole thing absolutely bizarre. People like Andy Halliday and Marvin Bartley regularly appear on radio and cast their eye over other clubs business when really, that shouldn’t be allowed.

Surely it’s a conflict of interests?

And this time it’s the turn of Motherwell manager, Stuart Kettlewell.

He was giving his opinion on the red card given to Hibs striker, Youan, for kicking CCV in the head.

Speaking on BBC Sportsound, Kettlewell said, “I tend to think that the striker was fouled in the lead up to it and see if you look at the Celtic players, none of them really claimed for it.

And they are on the attack. You know how to Celtic play, they want to just keep the flow go and they want to just keep playing and trying to attack.

And if you actually watch it back, again the ball falls in a favourable area for Celtic and I think that they just want to progress the play.

So this for me is where the referees can breathe a little bit and just lets see how that move pans out.

I think you’ve heard Ange Postecoglou has been so on this as well. He just wants the game to breathe and he just wants to game to flow.

And I think that if Steven McLean lets that one go and allows the Celtic attack, I don’t think we ever speak about it again.”

Whilst I think the red card was harsh, we will take it. For too long we have been on the wrong end of VAR injustices so it is about time that we received one in our favour.

If I was Kettlewell, I would be more concerned about the decisions that went against his own club against Rangers but then that doesn’t suit the narrative.

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