🚨🏴 Rangers have agreed deal to sign Lawrence Shankland from Hearts, here we go!
Paperwork now signed and Shankland set to be announced as new Rangers player. 💙🤍
My take: the ball hitting a hand is not always a handball offence. You have to either
1.) deliberately touch the ball with your hand, or
2.) ball hits your hand/arm when it's made your body unnaturally bigger.
This isn't deliberate, and if the ball hits his hand - which is on his forehead in the middle of a normal footballing challenge - he hasn't made his body unnaturally bigger. Because the ball would have hit his head anyway, so his hand on his head does not make his body unnaturally bigger.
Furthermore, VAR can only recommend an on-field review for a clear and obvious error. There is only one camera angle available, which does not show that the referee has missed a clear and obvious error. We can't see clearly where the ball hits.
This is categorically not what VAR was brought in for, and it all needs ripped up in the summer. This is a really poor look for Scottish football, as you can see from the international condemnation online since the game.
You really have to feel for Hearts. Unless you're a Celtic fan of course, that must have been class. But if you're not a Celtic fan. Deary me. Could be a generation defining decision, never mind season defining!
We thought VAR & PGMOL were bad.
Whether the ball did hit the Motherwell player's hand or not...
They've just handed a potential title-deciding win, using one inconclusive angle and a 15 second monitor check.
Absolutely diabolical from the Scottish officials. 😅
The behaviour of Celtic fans has been tolerated for far too long by the football authorities & Scottish police. They are unable to behave in a civilised manner, and once again today demonstrated that.
They shouldn’t have been let anywhere near Ibrox, and should never be again.