HibsFan

To quote an ancient Kickback proverb, I like my vermin confident.

And we’ll be expected to say nothing and let this rampant sectarianism continue. Protestant Action would blush at how shameless this lot are.

Lmao.

Hearts penalty, Shankland converts, waddles away shushing the Aberdeen contingent. Hearts get away with a penalty/red card incident. Neilson (shatteringly bald) comes out in his post-match interview with a 'look over there!' distraction and claims an Aberdeen player should've walked instead. Multiple Hearts players come off with 'knocks' to try and keep Lee Johnson second guessing. Craig Levein smiles down from above watching it all.

Deep down, they have to live with the knowledge that it’s utterly meaningless. Reaching a final is one of the biggest joys of football, and they see it as a ticking-off exercise. It’s the sort of behaviour you’d expect from a 5-year-old before they reach an age where they can understand a basic concept of fairness.

Bridge for sale!

Football is becoming a wider and wider chasm between the haves and the have nots across Europe and something needs to be done about it, because teams like Celtic turning the cups into a procession is good for nobody.

Another plucky break for those pesky underdogs of Midlothian! Where would they be if the referee ever gave something against them? Ah yes, that’s right, back to the second tier.

Would you like to guess the last time Hearts won a game without also being given a penalty? It was in October, by the way.

Haha time for Hibernian.

Dawning on Hearts fans that ‘kick and rush on small pitch’ can only take them so far, is it?

Without getting into the nuances of Momodou Bojang’s living conditions, I fucking hate the Gordons. Only Hibs could end up with a Romanov family who doesn’t even deliver success before it all goes tits up.

Look forward to hearing how Gordon’s stretchering off was the best stretchering off in Scotland.

Objectively quite funny.

Should be getting Christmas presents from the 15 I picked. Guaranteed them twelve months on this Earth.

Jesus Christ, that’s a horror tackle. However, I’ve just had a quick scan of the replies and quote tweets and apparently it’s the officials’ fault, not VAR. There was me thinking VAR stood for Video Assistant Referee and was clearly a fucking official. Silly me!

Well done to the fucking mugs who thought VAR would be our great white hope of a leveller against the Old Firm btw.

The threat of a season ticket boycott is, of course, the only way that this gets resolved. VAR is fundamentally imperfect in its nature and can never get everything 100% perfect. We have a chance to create organised boycotts like we did ten years ago and vote with our wallets. Will enough of us? Sadly probably not. I have written to Hibs twice on this issue now, and they have been informed that they will not be getting a single penny more of my money until they issue a club statement that explains why they were strongly in favour of VAR and why they did this without consulting the fans.

Okay, so why have we handed over more control to them by giving them VAR to f**k things up twice, then? This is the problem with the ‘guns don’t kill people, people do’ rhetoric that people are now floating with VAR. I am opposed to VAR because it is not a magic solution, it is just giving the referees the chance to make a mistake twice over. Football is subjective. Some people think Duk dived, others think it’s a stonewall penalty, other are in between the two. Are people not getting this yet? There is basically no such thing as a clear-cut decision in football. It is what makes the game great. It has now been terminally ruined because of pundits, managers, fans crying like little children because the bad referee didn’t give them what they wanted. So now we have a situation where people are still unhappy with refereeing decisions, but we’ve also lost the unbridled joy of a goal going in and celebrating it.

That...that was a fucking mile offside wasn't it?

We were largely excellent in the first half. The VAR check has killed us, the heads have gone down. It's a standard Pittodrie performance, it's been a decade's worth of them now.

Whether it’s a penalty or not is utterly irrelevant. The entire point is that it is subjective. The laws of the game are subjective. They cannot be ruled objectively. VAR simply passes the buck onto somebody else who makes a decision that still pisses many people off. The only thing we know VAR does for sure is take the joy of celebrating a goal away. Nothing else is a certainty. Say, hypothetically, we were playing without VAR tonight and Duk dived, the ref bought it and Aberdeen scored the penalty. I’d feel much less annoyed about it than I do right now. And that’s not saying Duk’s dived here, it’s just that there’s no such thing as a right decision in football, so why have we sacrificed one of its greatest elements for 8 minutes of standing around?

A dive at Pittodrie that would shame the late Ian Durrant.

Any Hibs fan who wanted it introduced has got exactly what they deserved and I hope it fucking stings.