Nothing to see here.....compare and contrast...
Ange Postecoglou wasn’t playing along with Kenny Macintyre’s claim that Celtic’s 2-0 win over St Mirren was a tough watch.
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Sorry imatim, but would have to agree with TET upon photo evidence in this case.
The only way to settle such incidents would be with VAR, even if they remain to highlight just how cheating the mibs remains still.
Watch enough football within the EPL and how such tackle are looked upon.
There seems to be a total misunderstanding between what is classed as a lung tackle and a sliding tackle when both are made by a player going to ground.
The sliding tackle is when the ball is away from the opponent and the follow through misses the player playing the ball, so still remains totally legit within the game still.
The lung tackle however, brings a whole new element of equations into play, so hence many players tend to shy away from such challenges especially with VAR in operation, and agree it has cleaned the game up more so, except in Scotland when such challenges are deemed as exceptable still, unless a celtic player should make such a challenge.
To clarify, when you lung into a tackle like so, its late, the follow through catches the player, so dangerous, and even a potential case for studs shown also, so a lung tackle is deemed as reckless and dangerous and the offence is classed as a straight red, everywhere else except within Scottish football still.
The real question highlights is how mibs still can't and won't apply the rules still?
VAR only helps to confirm the action, even if it can make the tackle look worse than it really was.
Gone are the days when such tackles were classed as, welcome to the game, that will teach you, the lie of making a genuine attempt for the ball when the opponent was really the 1st prize and even better if you got something on the ball as it usually saved the booking, so you could still carry on with the thuggery.
The lung tackle has quite rightly imo been taken away from the game as such, but it's still very relevant within the Scottish game still, for 2 reasons imo, to still allow for imtimerdation purposes and free hits upon Celtic players still, who remains the only team of actually trying to play football still.
The Scottish FA should be ashamed of themselves for still allowing this backwards approach to the modern game, and believe that Celtic still need to call out the agenda still that, rules are still being applied to the benifit of one team only still, aided with the help of cheating mibs still, and the cop out of this retrospective nonsense still.
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