Kemar Roofe Rangers goal reaction highlights Brendan Rodgers Celtic VAR hypocrisy.
Brendan Rodgers faces an SFA charge for comments about VAR, and the Celtic manager has clearly changed his tone since his early call against Rangers.
In September last year, refereeing technology saved Celtic defender Gustaf Lagerbielke from embarrassment after he was robbed by Rangers’ scorer Cyriel Dessers.
The massive Nigerian attacker then found Kemar Roofe, who sent a raucous Ibrox delirious with the opening goal. However, a VAR review led to the score being ruled out.
In retrospect, the judgment seems pretty stunning, with the Celtic defender attempting to catch the Rangers striker before collapsing after being beaten to the ball.
Brendan Rodgers defended VAR v Rangers
The moment was pivotal in the match, with Celtic winning 1-0 and Rangers booing their former manager Michael Beale.
After the game, Brendan Rodgers was less upset with the officials than he had been after Celtic’s 2-0 loss to Hearts.
“Rangers will probably say it was never a foul,” Rodgers told BBC Sport following the game. “I think obviously the referees, there’s enough officials looking at it and they obviously deemed it to be that.”
This contrasts with the Celtic manager’s statements after VAR interfered twice against Hearts, resulting in Yang’s upheld red card and a disputed Hearts handball penalty award.
The Celtic manager branded the referees “incompetent” and played the old ‘for the good of the game’ card before implying that football is now being refereed “off the pitch”.
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Brendan, please spare us the holier-than-thou nonsense.
VAR must only be a huge issue when decisions go against Celtic, but happily, the football gods have a way of leveling things out over the course of a season.
That is not to claim that the referee made the wrong choices against Celtic, but when you justify a point of disagreement in one regard but not in another, it shows you cannot be taken seriously.
Fans may have a one-sided bias, but managers have their own reasons for visiting Rangers next month.
That aforementioned footballing karma may also be in full swing, with the Celtic manager accused of “dog-whistling” to pro-Rangers conspiracies to distract from his own failings.
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