Collum also addressed two incidents in Celtic’s 3-1 home win over Rangers on 10 May, refereed by Nick Walsh.<\/p>\n
The visitors had claimed unsuccessfully for offside when Yang Hyun-jun equalised in a crowded penalty area and Alistair Johnston was booked for a challenge on Rangers’ Mikey Moore at 1-1.<\/p>\n
The head of refereeing said Johnston’s tackle did not meet the “criteria” in terms of “excessive force”, “brutality” and “endangering the safety of an opponent”.<\/p>\n
“We agree with the referee that it’s reckless,” Collum said. “We would say it’s glancing contact, it’s not full studs on the leg, bending over the leg.”<\/p>\n
And Collum also backed the award of the Yang goal on the grounds of the goalkeeper’s line of vision and Benjamin Nygren not interfering with play.<\/p>\n
“Jack Butland can see the shot,” said Collum. “The ball doesn’t deviate, it continues in that direction.<\/p>\n
“Does the Celtic player, attacker who is offside in front of the goalkeeper, does he make a movement towards Butland? Does he try to make a movement towards the ball? He makes no attempt to interfere with the goalkeeper.”<\/p>\n
Two decisions in Celtic’s 2-1 win at Hibernian on 3 May were discussed. Collum said a push by Hibernian’s Josh Campbell on Nygren, which did not result in a spot-kick, “should’ve been a penalty”.<\/p>\n
“Josh Campbell completely ignores the ball,” said Collum. “It’s a two-handed push. This is far removed from normal footballing contact. This is too excessive for us to ignore.”<\/p>\n
However, the award of Hibs’ equaliser after no handball was given against scorer Joe Newell was the correct call following a “thorough check”, said Collum.<\/p>\n
“They don’t see any conclusive evidence here to say that Joe Newell has touched this with a punishable part of the arm,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Collum also addressed two incidents in Celtic’s 3-1 home win over Rangers on 10 May, refereed by Nick…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":673612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[69],"tags":[403,99],"class_list":["post-673611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-soccer","tag-soccer","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=673611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/673611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/673612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=673611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=673611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=673611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}