{"id":257537,"date":"2025-11-02T22:27:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:27:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257537\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T22:27:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T22:27:07","slug":"why-var-did-not-overturn-rangers-penalty-vs-celtic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/257537\/","title":{"rendered":"Why VAR did not overturn Rangers penalty vs Celtic"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n The Celtic<\/a> defender was penalised for handball during his attempt to block Djeidi Gassama’s shot in the box at Hampden.\n<\/p>\n

\n Referee Nick Walsh pointed to the spot, and James Tavernier<\/a> converted the penalty.\n<\/p>\n

\n However, the decision left Celtic players furious, as they questioned the call with Ralston’s arms tucked in as he fell to the ground and blocked the shot.\n<\/p>\n

\n According to Michael Stewart<\/a>, who was commentating for Premier Sports, VAR did not interfere with the call because the ball struck Ralston below the T-shirt line.\n<\/p>\n

\n The pundit, who did not believe it should have been a penalty, expressed his opinion on the matter.\n<\/p>\n

\n He said: “VAR is saying it hits his elbow below the t-shirt line. We can all see that.\n<\/p>\n

\n “That doesn’t constitute a penalty. His arm is tucked in tight ot his body.\n<\/p>\n

\n “Here is the other thing, if he is putting his arm down, then his rested arm on the ground, it is not given as a penalty.\n<\/p>\n

\n “He has actually tucked it in and been penalised, I think it is extremely harsh.”\n<\/p>\n

\n Stewart was equally baffled at the decision not to book Ralston for the handball once the penalty award had been confirmed.\n<\/p>\n

\n The Celtic full-back was already on a yellow card, so would have been sent off if a yellow was given by Walsh.\n<\/p>\n

\n Stewart said: “You can see Rangers<\/a> players are clearly questioning the ref, ‘You’ve given the penalty, is it not a yellow card?’\n<\/p>\n

\n “And I think it is a valid question. I don’t think it should be persoanlly but if you are giving it, surely it is a yellow.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Celtic defender was penalised for handball during his attempt to block Djeidi Gassama’s shot in the box…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":257538,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[440],"tags":[49,48,561,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-257537","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-soccer","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257537","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=257537"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/257537\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/257538"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=257537"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=257537"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=257537"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}