{"id":441061,"date":"2026-05-14T09:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/441061\/"},"modified":"2026-05-14T09:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-14T09:17:14","slug":"us-against-everybody-hearts-manager-derek-mcinnes-blasts-disgusting-celtic-penalty-as-controversial-decision-sets-up-top-of-the-table-showdown-to-decide-scottish-premiership-title-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/441061\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Us against everybody!&#8217; &#8211; Hearts manager Derek McInnes blasts &#8216;disgusting&#8217; Celtic penalty as controversial decision sets up top-of-the-table showdown to decide Scottish Premiership title race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While Hearts were left reeling, Celtic manager Martin O&#8217;Neill was quick to praise his match-winner, Iheanacho, who held his nerve to roll the ball home in the final seconds. O&#8217;Neill insisted that the VAR process worked correctly, noting that the referee had &#8220;no hesitation&#8221; once he viewed the monitor. Iheanacho has endured a difficult season with injury, but his contribution at Fir Park could prove to be the most significant goal of the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>O&#8217;Neill told BBC Scotland: &#8220;Iheanacho has been terrific for us with the little cameo roles that he&#8217;s done. He&#8217;s had a really frustrating time this season with hamstring problems, but he has come up big for us in these weeks, absolutely big, and he was the one taking the penalty. I was delighted that he was the one who was taking it. Well, I have seen it back very, very briefly, it&#8217;s a handball, it looks as if it&#8217;s also an elbow to the side of the head as well. VAR have asked the referee to come over and have a look at it, and he&#8217;s [had] no hesitation in giving the penalty.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"While Hearts were left reeling, Celtic manager Martin O&#8217;Neill was quick to praise his match-winner, Iheanacho, who held&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441062,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[116892,206739,45541,85,46,165047,206738,206740,29681,105],"class_list":["post-441061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-celtic","tag-d-mcinnes","tag-hearts","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-m-oneill","tag-motherwell","tag-motherwell-vs-celtic","tag-premiership","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}