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[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

@IbroxHQ All he broke was his knee

[𝐃𝐈𝐆𝐁 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @_DIGB]

This is fucking sensational 👏

[Críostóir @mcgceltic]

Tide is starting to turn here. They are realising no proof of assault and they are all backtracking 😂

[FTBL_Planet @FTBL_Planet]

When Tommy Burns was coming towards the end of his life, Scott Brown’s family were going through their own heartbreak.

Tommy was battling skin cancer.

Brown’s sister Fiona was also dying of cancer.

She was only 23.

At Celtic, everyone knew how ill Tommy was.

Gordon Strachan went to see him at 4pm one day, and by 3am the next morning, Tommy had sadly passed away.

A few hours later, the Celtic players were brought together.

Strachan spoke to them.

Then Scott Brown came over to him.

“Can I speak to you?”

Strachan knew what Brown’s family were going through, so he asked him what was wrong.

Brown asked him when Tommy had died.

“About three in the morning.”

“Why?”

That was when Brown told him what had happened.

“Well, my sister got flowers at 10 this morning.”

They had arrived after Tommy had died.

And the note was from him.

“Good luck, keep your chin up.”

From Tommy Burns.

Tommy was hours from the end of his own life, and he was still thinking about Scott Brown’s sister.

Still sending flowers.

Still trying to lift someone else.

That was why Celtic people loved him the way they did.

Not just because he played for the club.

Not just because he managed it.

Because even at the very end, he was still Tommy Burns.
#football #celtic

[Hamish Carton @hamishcarton]

😂😂😂

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

@JamesMelville The written rule in football: if you handle the ball inside your own box, the opposition team gets a penalty.

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

This is for sure the best league title win of my lifetime. I was there for the invincible treble, double treble, treble treble, and quadruple treble... something about this is just so much sweeter to face all the adversity we did and still come through.

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

Its mad that this even needs to be explained. Go watch the play. Anyone who thinks this is offside, take off your blue & maroon tinted glasses.

[Football Tweet ⚽ @Footballtweet]

🚨 𝗘𝗫𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗜𝗡𝗘𝗗: Why the VAR made the correct decision for Celtic's goal against Hearts.

The still image shows the goalscorer offside but the through ball was played to Callum Osmand who pulled the ball back for Daizen Maeda.

The VAR made the correct decision.

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

@NewcoJoe72 Its because you're not allowed to play the ball with your hand pal

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

Watch the full play you idiot 😂

[Football Away Days @AwayDaysFB]

Can someone please explain how ON EARTH this is onside? Hearts have been absolutely robbed at the death. A very dark day for Scottish football 👍🏼

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

Put perfectly!

[John McGinley @jhnmcgnly]

🤓 Reflections on last night's Celtic penalty.

I'm not trying to convince anyone, really, more laying out an alternative viewpoint amongst what I consider to be pretty absurd hysteria. There are also some mistruths about the VAR process being portrayed as neutral objectivity that I think deserve to be challenged.

Does the ball hit his arm? For me, the footage shows this.

Is his arm in an unnatural position and making his body bigger? It's above shoulder height and in front of his head. The ball strikes his arm before his head. Personally, I don't feel his arm being there is justified by his body movement. Intent is irrelevant.

Is it a clear and obvious error? There's a popular misconception there has to have been a 'clear and obvious error' for VAR to recommend a VAR review. Per the IFAB guidance, this is not true. A referee can also be called to the monitor if they communicate to the VAR that they haven't seen or made a decision on an incident VAR has flagged as a potential penalty. This is called a 'serious missed incident'.

I think, until the audio is released, it's reasonable to assume John Beaton did not rule on whether it was a handball or not before the review, so 'clear and obvious error' would not apply. He didn't have to make a decision on allowing play to continue because the ball almost immediately went out of play and he was told to delay.

It's fair to surmise that Dallas' only role was flagging to Beaton there was a potential handball, not suggesting he had made a grave error. IFAB guidance also makes clear that for subjective decisions, including handball considerations, a pitchside review is appropriate. Beaton approached the monitor and made a decision on the evidence available to him.

Taking all of this into consideration, even if you feel it wasn't a penalty, I am struggling to comprehend the outrage as if this were either the most corrupt decision in the history of Scottish football or the 'worst VAR decision' in history.

I feel there's been a lack of balance or relevant knowledge on broadcasts. I think mainstream pundits suggesting there is a pattern of assistance for Celtic in this title race is hysterical nonsense that is ordinarily mocked by most in less tense times.

For the record, and I know this goes against many Celtic fans, I don't believe any club feels the benefit of biased refereeing.

I think referees in this country are generally poor and lack consistency and I think the version of VAR that we have in Scottish football is fundamentally flawed because of cheap infrastructure.

Going back to the penalty itself, the biggest point of contention would be on the concept of his body being 'unnaturally bigger'. In this case I feel the decision could really go either way depending on the viewpoint of the referee. I don't think it's massively egregious to say it is a penalty.

It can be 'harsh', 'unlucky' and 'soft' and still be a reasonable conclusion for the referee to award a penalty. Or at least be reasonable enough not to suggest it is a 'worldwide' embarrassment and/or cheating.

I'm not entirely ignorant of my own bias. I fully understand it's easier to go 'well, what's the big deal here?' when the decision goes in favour of the team you support and professionally cover. It's going to generate noise, I get that. Yet, there's something uneasy about the fervour with which this is being labelled as objectively a 'disgusting' crime against Hearts and their title bid.

Celtic have earned 19 points with goals scored after the 80th minute this season. They're finding a way. It might be enough.

Rage on!

[Boristhehead @BigPatsy01]

The Huns are phoning the FBI 😂😂😂

[Boristhehead @BigPatsy01]

Have the Sky panel decided to completely ignore these incidents 2 weeks ago?

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

The argument against that being a handball because "it's physically impossible for the ball to go that far off a hand" is ridiculous. We literally just watched it happen.
Players not claiming it - they were playing to the whistle.
Beaton & Dalls certainly aren't favouring Celtic

[Ewan MacKenna @EwanMacKenna]

As someone who grew up (aged six-twelve) a Rangers fan, desperate for Hearts to win the league, there's nothing controversial about VAR giving Celtic a penalty for this. It's a penalty.

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

@JamieBrysonLLB @scot_to_be_indy Its good you'd rather be a losing Rangers fan, because it's exactly what you are 🤣 remind me, what does EBT stand for?

[Chris Sutton @chris_sutton73]

What an incredible night of football. Danny on one hell of a Rohl as well…

[GreenGiant🍀 @_Green_Giant]

@DH63196255 @JohnKerry @Starbucks @dunkindonuts @BirdsEye @MarieCallender @stouffers @OreIdaPotatoes @Oreo @nabisco @KeeblerUS @PepperidgeFarm @Doritos @OfficialFritos What did I do wrong!?

[Chris Sutton @chris_sutton73]

Celtic save their best for the Derby game when it really counts. Maeda with one of the greatest goals (unlikely goals) but all the same👏👏 Rangers rolled over like they normally do… what a season. For Martin O’Neill to get this team to this point is remarkable 👏👏🍀

[Adam Dunn @AdamDunn1872]

" Rangers are no threat what so ever, they are so far adrift "

Aye mate.