Richie

Twitter certainly seems excited

Bristol have signed Kofi Balmer on a perm.

Stephen Welsh away to Swansea apparently

The Asst VAR questioned if it was a clear handball also. Its similar to the Just tackle at Parkhead where VAR is giving leading statements and when the ref raises concerns to them, they are batted down.

VAR show at 6pm 🍿 Lets see what they've been saying in the Celtic game

There was talk of the Just WC money going to his previous club as part of his transfer agreement. Unsure on how accurate that is though

The £1m is wages I think. I think the report is lost in translation. Yesterday the reports were saying Toulouse would pay £1mto land him, but that is surely salary. Otherwise we have won a watch.

Its a condition of entry not to enter the field of play etc There's presumably relatively little the club can do though other than not allowing them tickets. Little to stop others buying them though and there would be no recourse (unlike a court-imposed banning order) *InterestingIy football banning orders can cover watching games in the pub etc as welll

Martin O'Neill car crash interview with Talksport yesterday and getting rightly called out. Sutton making a tit of himself on 5 Live Gary Lineker has doubled down

Watching it back on Sky the commentator says there was difficulty with the communication and you see Beaton fiddling with his earphone. Even more reason to stick with the onfield decision.

The VAR Review show is expected to be Fri 22nd. In previous shows Collum has suggested: >That a hand in front of face may not be punishable >That stills are unhelpful because they lack context >Onfield decision cannot be overturned unless it can be 100% proven otherwise. They have fudged the decision, but will try an justify it, no doubt with contradictory statements to previous explanations.

Never in doubt! Tremendous effort this season!

Watt red Soft

Maeda bundled into Ward much more heavily than that and the ref waved play on

Stephen Weeeelllshhhhh!!!

What a save Knocking on the door here

Maswanhise HAS to score there

Yaaaaaassa Fadinger

Zack Robinson to fire us to Europe!

They have to fudge some sort of justification. It would be completely unpalatable for them to admit an error, given the ramifications of the decision.

Hopefully a win and a chance for the squad to take a bow, albeit in front of a smaller support.

The crux of it is that VAR has called the ref and a subsequent pen has been givien on the basis of unclear footage/still image evidence, with the additional criteria required for it to be punishable being ignored (Deliberately making body bigger).

...An overdue yellow at that

Again, absolutely no fan of Rangers, but this is specifically a Celtic Fan problem at Fir Park. Lumping them together in this context absolves them of accounability.

Yeah, in the context of disorder at Fir Park, I don't think you can tar Rangers fans with Celtic's brush. Not aware of instances where there has been much trouble. Certainly not storming fire exits, pitch incursions, block of seats destroyed etc.