{"id":441231,"date":"2026-02-23T13:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441231\/"},"modified":"2026-02-23T13:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T13:15:08","slug":"the-refs-view-delivers-clear-verdict-on-liam-scales-celtic-penalty-shout-vs-hibs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/441231\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ref&#8217;s View delivers &#8216;clear&#8217; verdict on Liam Scales Celtic penalty shout vs Hibs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a class=\"fw\" href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=67hailhail.com \" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"28\" height=\"28\" src=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/wp-content\/themes\/grv-media\/img\/google-discover.svg\" alt=\"\"\/> Add as preferred source on Google <\/a>  <\/p>\n<p>Celtic\u2019s defeat to Hibs has certainly caused plenty of controversy as VAR grabs the headlines with a couple of strange decisions against the Parkhead club.<\/p>\n<p>Firstly, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/match\/former-fifa-ref-mark-clattenburg-questions-controversial-var-red-card-for-celtics-auston-trusty\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Celtic defender Auston Trusty\u2019s red card<\/a> has already been criticised by former FIFA referee Mark Clattenburg as he said the American was \u2018unfortunate\u2019 to be ordered off.<\/p>\n<p>           Vote NOW! Was Liam Scales\u2019 foul a penalty? <\/p>\n<p class=\"grv-talking-point__subtitle\">Let us know in the poll!<\/p>\n<p>But <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/match\/mark-clattenburgs-verdict-on-liam-scales-celtic-penalty-shout-vs-hibs-exposes-var\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Liam Scales\u2019 Celtic penalty call<\/a> was also a gamechanger as it denied the Hoops the chance to go 2-1 up while down to 10 men and it seems The Ref\u2019s View have their very \u2018clear\u2019 opinion on that.<\/p>\n<p>Ex-SFA referees agree Celtic should have had a \u2018clear\u2019 penalty vs Hibs<\/p>\n<p>The Ref\u2019s View have certainly stoked up debate with their opinions on Celtic decisions this season, but here, their verdict is clear.<\/p>\n<p>Taking to X, The Ref\u2019s View said, \u201cThis is a clear penalty too, referee right in front of it, absolutely no excuse.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Well, it seems that there will be an excuse offered somewhere and Celtic supporters will be listening intently for it in the coming days.<\/p>\n<p>How Celtic, Rangers and Hearts sit in the Scottish Premiership table<\/p>\n<p>With Hearts winning and Celtic and Rangers dropping points, it seems that the Edinburgh club are starting to open up a big gap at the top of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.67hailhail.com\/premiership-table\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Scottish Premiership table<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The top-six is looking cosy with Celtic looking over their shoulders now at Motherwell who are only four points behind.<\/p>\n<p>With a six-point gap to Hearts, Celtic do still have a game in hand but with tough away fixtures to Rangers and Aberdeen, the Bhoys\u2019 title defence is looking really shaky right now.<\/p>\n<p>Join Our Newsletter<\/p>\n<p>Receive a digest of our best Celtic content each week direct to your mailbox<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Add as preferred source on Google Celtic\u2019s defeat to Hibs has certainly caused plenty of controversy as VAR&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441232,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[59,30599,101,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-441231","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sports","8":"tag-gb","9":"tag-liam-scales","10":"tag-sports","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}