Celtic goal

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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C

Still no seeing a McGinn touch. Turnbull turns in to trouble because of his first touch, he ends up about side on to goal, flicks the ball away and buys a foul.

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SM definitely gets the ball for me. There's no way Turnbull's second touch was going that quickly diagonally away from goal. Can only be a touch from SM. It even looks like he gets a flick on it.

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Originally Posted by Edinburgh_Lad

Think you should go and view the thread, still people saying after the YouTube link they can’t see it, for me turnbull hits the ball and McGinn is late

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Those people are incorrect.

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Originally Posted by Tricla

Those people are incorrect.

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I couldn't tell either way, to be honest. First reaction was to shout at the ref that it was never a foul, on watching the replay at first I then thought the ref was right.

I've watched a few times now and I can't tell conclusively one way or the other, so for me that's not an error from the ref, he's a split second to make a call on that and if his thoughts were that he'd seen the foul then I'd believe it.

His decision not to apply the laws of the game to Duffy's presence in the Hibs wall, though, is inexplicable and inexcusable.

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Originally Posted by matty_f

I couldn't tell either way, to be honest. First reaction was to shout at the ref that it was never a foul, on watching the replay at first I then thought the ref was right.

I've watched a few times now and I can't tell conclusively one way or the other, so for me that's not an error from the ref, he's a split second to make a call on that and if his thoughts were that he'd seen the foul then I'd believe it.

His decision not to apply the laws of the game to Duffy's presence in the Hibs wall, though, is inexplicable and inexcusable.

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I can see why the ref thought it was a foul. DT was between him and SM and it happened so fast. However, when you watch the replay it seems clear to me that SM's touch diverts the ball away. There was nothing about DT's movement or direction that would have caused the ball to go off at the angle it did.

We have the advantage of being able to look at it in that detail and take our time doing so. The ref has to make a quick decision based on what he saw and from what angle. I don't hold it against the ref for giving it as a foul and I would never vouch for VAR to make those decisions in our game. Also, he could easily have given a pen (and I was surprised he didn't given the opponent and venue) for the Porto tackle.

Agree with your point about Duffy. Comedy refereeing. The ref probably thought he was isolating and couldn't possibly be in the wall!

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Originally Posted by B.H.F.C

I saw that very angle the other night and that’s why I’m so convinced. No quite behind the goal but the other side of McGinn.

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Sure Sky showed an angle on the night clearly showing Stephen getting the ball.

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Originally Posted by Helensburghhibs

Petty I know as it was a quality free kick but shouldn't have stood as Duffy was in our wall and not the required 1m away.

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Probably the only good thing he ever did for Celtic. Just an awful, calamitous player. Can't believe he's wanted down south too. I'm not sure he'd even get into our starting xi.

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am glad they scored. We then started to play with a bit of passion