lennyzer0

Trying to pretend now that you were being facetious is, in some ways, even worse.

Among the expected 'Beaton is a ***' / 'What about this incident from three years ago which was refereed differently' / 'You get them telt, Brendan' shite, I did like this comment from one ItaliaBhoy, which shows an ignorance both of the SFA's own admissions re which clubs have been shafted by bad VAR decisions, and how many goals Shankland has scored from the spot this season. They seem to get almost as many decisions as the **** from VAR. It's really boosted Shankland's stats, whihc would be average without all the penalties.

Bloody hell - I read your first post and thought 'he's surely not referencing the Michael Smith handball there, is he?' Because that would be hilariously daft in a generalisation about teams not getting penalties against them.

Speaking to a former SPFL ref last night and he said the Celtic penalty was a subjective one and so one VAR certainly shouldn't have been involved in, and the Celtic one a penalty by the rules, but still a bloody disgrace, since the rule is idiotic. But he also said that the red card was 100% a red card and Don Robertson made an error in the original yellow - if the studs catch the player in the face (as opposed to, say, the laces), refs have been instructed that that is unquestionably a sending off offence. His assumption was that Roberson didn't realise the Celtic player's studs were forward until VAR called him over to the screen. He was also quite scathing about the likes of Neil Lennon going on about the lack of malice, as though that made any difference.

Ouch - that burned.

F**k me, you're a humourless fuckwit, eh? Or, to be strictly fair, maybe just not the sharpest tool in the box - exaggeration for (in this case self-deprecating) comic effect it's called. It's actually quite common on things like football fora, as opposed to the court of law you appear to think this place is.

Shouldn't this be posted in 'what the f**k are you talking about'?

Not a bad idea, but I'd prefer CCTV identifying anyone throwing anything from either support and then a knock on the door from the Police, followed by a public disorder charge.

Kind of guy who the thinks we should US style tail gate parties before the football - and that that's the best bit of the day.

Christ, that's desperately weak patter.

TBH, much as I enjoyed the foreign trips last season, I am coming round to the idea that watching Hearts winning against everyone bar the OF week in, week out is arguably a more pleasurable experience than spending fortunes to watch European teams hose us over a two month period in the autumn.

They didn't give him one, but the ref did let him place the ball abut ten feet further back than the foul for the first Rangers goal, just to make it easier for him.

Best team drew.

Mind when Lennon was poleaxed by a ten pence to the padded jacket? I fully expect to see a level of enquiry and outrage in the press today to match that... Oh wait...

Ouch. Ah well, not the first pumping in Glasgow I've sat through, won't be the last. 3 points off Hibs during the week, and all will be forgotten.

Similarly short lived at Tynecastle, but Género Zeefuik must be worth a shout. Round as a ball of butter, but 12 goals in 15 games in our first time in the championship, including a three minute hat-trick against Dumbarton and two in the dead rubber final game of the season against Rangers to grab what, without him, seemed an unlikely draw. Then he was gone, off to Turkey, never to be seen in Scotland again.

"Fotheringham, keen to work again with ex-Huddersfield No 2 Kenny Miller" Some unfortunate club is 100% going down.

Watching the highlights just now and it certainly makes for an exciting game when neither team can defend at all. Hard to believe that Marshall punch on Miovski wasn't given as a penalty, though. Even by the shitty standards of refereeing in this country, that's baffling.

Watching it back just now, I'm not even convinced it was a foul.

Do we f**k. I'm loving this run - it's such a strange feeling to be consistently leaving Tynecastle looking forward to watching Sportscene later - but if we get a draw against each OF team (and a win over Hibs, of course) I will be beyond delighted. We are a very decent side, but perhaps not quite as good as the winning run suggests. I remain convinced that Clark should be dropped for Gordon, for a start. The man gives me the fear at any high ball.

...brutally bad ref/VAR combo decision on the Forrest penalty.

Oddly, not a single incorrect decision which worked against either Celtic or Hibs.

Something for us to add to our Honours List alongside the Tennants Sixes - Most Fucked Over by VAR Second Quarter 2023. Two missed penalties and one missed red card. Scottish Premiership: Review panel says 13 more VAR decisions incorrect - BBC Sport

There are some decent ones - I'm obviously a bit biased myself, but I think Laurie Dunsire and Jimmy Sandison do a good, fairly unbiased job on Hearts TV, and the Dee Tv guys were decent last week.

He is up there, but let is not forget that Kenny Miller still exists. Really brutally partisan commentary all round on Reds TV (which is to be expected to a degree, but I do prefer a tiny bit of sense amongst the slavering). The bit where one of them referred to Davor Zdravkovski as 'Davor Big long second name' was especially shit.