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Confirmed on BBC Lennon gets extra 4-match touchline ban McCoist gets 2 for first offence for the handbags at the OF game.

Just hope that the cup final runs smoothly even so going to be a fun weekend.
 
Rangers beat Kilmarnock to go two points behind with a game in hand. Looks like the referee played a major role with the Radio Scotland commentators lamenting three stone wall penalty decisions that where waved away.

Nothing to fear for Celtic though as I fully expect both teams to drop points in the remaining games although I feel Rangers will drop more than Celtic. I don't think the last game at Ibrox will be a decider at all and even then, I expect Celtic to keep up their winning ways in these encounters.
 
Yep the ref did indeed have a poor game. I watched the highlights and the quote from the commentator of 'that's six times this season that Rangers have benefited from own goals' was quite an eye opener.

Only two penalty claims where shown, one for each team, and the Rangers claim was poor as a deflected ball against an arm shows no intent. The last minute claim from Killie was indeed a stone waller. Lafferty and his skill of 'second touch a tackle' definitely catches the Kille forward and Rangers extremely lucky not to concede another penalty.
 
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Maybe so but the "penalty" he did award Killie was a bit of a shocker so perhaps he balanced up his earlier mistake. 6 own goals come from decent balls into the box I suppose. Balls like that one yesterday always carry a risk of going into your own net when you have to stretch out to try and clear with players coming in behind.
 
Mixu on yesterdays game -

Kilmarnock manager Mixu Paatelainen believes his team, which lost 2-1 to Rangers on Sunday, had little chance of being awarded a second penalty at Ibrox as "it's a difficult place to get any" - Killie's Tim Clancy felt he had been fouled in the box by Kyle Lafferty. (Daily Record)
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On another note -

Celtic’s away support has been voted in the top five in a poll conducted by Zoo magazine. The mainly Premiership based survey saw 8% of supporters give Celtic their vote when asked: Who are the best away supporters in Britain. Not surprisingly Liverpool (28%), Manchester United (12%) and Newcastle (14%) filled the top three spots with Celtic in jont fourth place alongside Tottenham and ahead of West Ham, Manchester City and Leeds.

Liverpool, Manchester United and Chelsea filled the top three spots in the most hated supporters poll. Martin O’Neill is backed by 4% of supporters to become the next England manager with Harry Redknapp the overwhelming choice of 53% of those who took part in the poll. Steven Gerrard was voted as the best current Premiership player by 21% of fans with Gareth Bale, Carlos Tevez and Cesc Fabregas also well backed.

Ryan Giggs and Jimmy Bullard were the most popular drinking partners for the ‘who would you most like to go for a pint with’ poll with El Hadji-Diouf the runaway winner with 30% of the votes cast in the ‘who would you least like to go for a pint with’ category.
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Smith on the game

On the penalty calls, Smith said: “Jelavic has turned the boy and was pulled down in the box. That was a penalty kick.

“If Kilmarnock’s penalty is one and that one isn’t then I have wasted my time in football for a long while.

“The Killie player’s boot is up at Richard Foster’s head for their one so it’s very difficult to understand that decision.

It’s also very difficult to understand the timewasting.

“I don’t mind timewasting, but for the Killie goalkeeper to go through 90 minutes wasting the time that he’s wasted and for the ref never to speak to him, then that’s an amazing factor.

“At least in European games the refs warn them early. Here they don’t.

“No one can say anyone got away with decisions today. I think a lot of the calls over 90 minutes were questionable.”
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You can't deny though, Lafferty claims to have never touched Clancy for the last minute penalty claim when it is patently obvious he did and this makes him out to be a liar.

Foster also catches the boot of Clancy. It may have been a soft penalty but you still can't kick a player in the area and expect nothing to be done, oh wait, look at the sentence above. ;)
 
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You can't deny though, Lafferty claims to have never touched Clancy for the last minute penalty claim when it is patently obvious he did and this makes him out to be a liar.

Foster also catches the boot of Clancy. It may have been a soft penalty but you still can't kick a player in the area and expect nothing to be done, oh wait, look at the sentence above. ;)
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The ref was awful for both teams and things seemed to even themselves out. It's sad for Scottish football that the quality of refeering is so poor. Just be thankful you're getting the 'cream' to referee your matches. Try watching first division refs - it gets embarrassing.

They may have 6 own goals in their favour but you need to be getting the ball into the right area of the pitch for that to be happening.
 
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You can't deny though, Lafferty claims to have never touched Clancy for the last minute penalty claim when it is patently obvious he did and this makes him out to be a liar.

Foster also catches the boot of Clancy. It may have been a soft penalty but you still can't kick a player in the area and expect nothing to be done, oh wait, look at the sentence above. ;)
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:rolleyes: and if you wouldn't mind looking at things impartially Eddie, Jelavic turned a Kilmarnock defender and was brought down in the box which was a penalty and was not given.

Should the referee have gotten every decision correct then you would have still been looking at 3-2 Rangers so please to play it out as if it was only Kilmarnock who were wronged by a truely awful referee on Sunday.

The referees are terrible and that was one of the worst performances I've seen in a hell of a lot of time. Both sets of supporters have a lot to be unhappy about and rightly Smith told it as it was, the ref made some baffling decisions and was not consistent at all.
 
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Considering all the highlights where not shown and the commentators on Radio Scotland claimed Killie had been denied three stone wall penalties, that would have made it 4-3 to Killie. Yep dodgy ref with poor performance.
 
Celts avoid a potential banana skin and defeat ICT 2-1. Aberdeen beckon in the semi-final but let's face it, they haven't been much of a threat to Celtic at any point this season.

Super Caley realistic, Celtic are bodacious!

The treble is on. In Lenny we trust.
 
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Guy I work with is a Dons fan and when the draw was made he said we might aswell not bother turning up vrs St Mirren so bad is their form and tactics against you lot.
 
I may be the only Celtic fan doing so but I have my fingers crossed for a Rangers win tonight - I reckon its actually gonna be a tougher game than at PSV and I expect WS will stick to his usual one up front formation.

If EHD is fit and up for it, he could be the key player
 
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doopydug said:
I may be the only Celtic fan doing so but I have my fingers crossed for a Rangers win tonight - I reckon its actually gonna be a tougher game than at PSV and I expect WS will stick to his usual one up front formation.

If EHD is fit and up for it, he could be the key player
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i think every sane scottish person would want either team to get as far as possible, it means more european places for our country, means more money for the clubs, means more money spent within the scottish economy.

its a win win situation, a lot of idiots on the other hand, dont seem to understand that.
 
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