Officiating in the UEFA Champions League shaming and exposing our own here in Scottish football…
The furore over certain decisions in Sunday’s Premier Sports Cup semi-final clash has been dominating the headlines these past few days, as the blue tinted Scottish mainstream media go into full spin mode in their effort to deflect from Danny Rohl and theRangers players failures.
Those spin doctors would have been left reeling last night after certain decisions in high profile Champions league games, most notably the tasty clash between Liverpool and Real Madrid at Anfield.
Man in the middle Istvan Kovacs adjudged Real Madrid’s Aurelien Tchouameni to have handled a goal bound effort from Dominik Szoboszlai, and free kick awarded on the edge of the area.
The official was then sent to the monitor to review a potential spot kick as the offending players arm was said to be within the realm of the penalty area. Unfortunately for the home team and supporters, the official, with the aid of a slow motion replay changed his mind and awarded a drop ball to the away side, judging the players hand to have been in a natural position.
UEFA’s statement – VAR Decision No penalty. The ball touched the left arm of Real Madrid’s player No14, which was close to the body in a natural position.
Now think back to the decision to penalise Tony Ralston for the exact same scenario on Sunday. Some were even claiming it to be a bookable offence, even though the rules on that changed two years ago so that handballs resulting in penalties are not automatically a bookable offence. It’s amazing that these pundits and experts don’t know the rules.
It leaves a lot of egg on serval faces, and shows our ‘impartial’ officials in a bad light. Will anyone in the mainstream media in Scotland care to comment?
I very much doubt it.
Just an Ordinary Bhoy
But not up here eh??
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— gigicullen (@gigicullen0502) November 4, 2025