I’m a Celtic man, 23 years in LA. Your brain vibrates at the same frequency as mine. I love your literature and movie shout outs. Keep at it Alex - Subscribed 👍🏻
@@Stephen-zn3lk Many thanks, Stephen. Very kind, sir. And I'm very jealous you get to check out the Heat locations whenever you feel like it! My brother will meet you at BJ's on Alvarado at 2am...
An hour or so into the podcast I decided to look see if I could find a video of Heat on youtube. Just watched the 2 hours and 43 minutes of it, in Spanish. Thanks for the podcast Alec, alternative excellence.
@@simonb2452 El Calor? Muy, muy bien, Simon. It's not even my favourite film - it's just the one I can't stop thinking about. And many thanks for getting so far into my wee pod. I'm supposed to be ashamed of their length - and my verbosity does often worry me - but I still find "an hour or so into your podcast" a beautiful start to a reply. Cheers, sir.
When do we get to hear the audio from the Jonson hand ball incident, when do we get to hear the VAR audio as it happens, not after it may have been edited, or invented, just like the photo of Sima offside, allegedly?
Excellent listen again sir! Still totally seething with regards to the outcome of that honest mistake! 🤬🤬🤣 Couldn’t care less if they discipline the officials - it changes nothing! Just replay the game! 😂😂
😆😆And I thought I was being clickbaity with my headline, Andy! 😅 Can you imagine if they did replay the game - absolute carnage. I'd want the Scottish Cup final replayed too... the 1989 Scottish Cup final, that is. Aye, brutal mistake, sir. I'll get over it sometime shortly after my dementia kicks in. Thanks for giving it a listen, mate👍
Alec, lovely pod again. Balanced personal review from you, I watched Collums VAR review and I must admit was refreshing to hear his full debrief of that bad decision. Listen, as a staunch supporter of the Famous, this was a mistake and I understand this fully. As a retired Fire Service Officer I made mistakes and sometimes was ‘kicked’ by my bosses. Some of these ‘mistakes’ was sore to take but the reflection made me a better Fire Officer going forward. I do remember how I felt after these events so I do feel some sympathy for the VAR team., especially how they are feeling after the event. I only hope this ‘bad mistake’ makes the official environment better, going forward. Painful loss for the Gers on Sunday and boy did I feel it but to blame our defeat on this mistake is plainly wrong. This situation just adds vitriol to the back and fore crap between the supporters (some of which I read here). This event had nothing to do with supposed referee allegiances, it was just a bad mistake hopefully 🙏 being followed up by future improvements. My only personal grievance is mistakes in the past we’re not reviewed in full view, this has now changed and I welcome Willie Collums ‘open’ debriefs with attached Official communications on the park. Sorry Eck, long rant over !! PS nothing worse than being judged by your ‘Peers’ especially in full public view.
Pat Riley - superbly played Adrien Brody in the wonderful Winning Time. HBO cancelling that show after 2 seasons was nearly as big a crime as that decision on Sunday.
@@multipleman78 Will try and find that and give it a wee watch, MultipleMan. Sounds good. Aye, Vincent Hanna's seen some major robberies but, last Sunday...
Heat what a movie, as an ex soldier , Heat is the only movie that I can recall that portrays an accurate account of fire and manoeuvre , changing mags, firing from vehicles when they exit the bank.. Great stuff.
Aye, Steven the cast were trained in pre-production by Andy McNab and one other ex-SAS guy on how to do same. Apparently Val Kilmer's execution of all these skills, in the bank job shoot-out, is so good it's used in US military training videos. Love that film, mate.
Another good pod alex you always get it spot on looking forward to the dundee preview what a week its been we could discuss this for years the rights and wrongs no doubt there will be more in the future thats the nature of football yes it was .. no it wasnt .. wont go there with the casuals battle of sherifmuir part 2 these idiots think they represent the clubs sad to say just realized i made a social comment the brain has re awoken 😅 cheered myself up a bit watched a few laurel and hardy films they are good especally this time of year when its total darkness for most of the day olly yes stanley ... stanley with a silly lost look ...ollie . . Thats another fine mess you gotten me into ..hmmmp😅😅😅 best alex
😆😆cheers, mate, Thanks for watching again. Much appreciated. Can't believe you got into the social commentary - no place for that in a forensically focussed podcast like mine😆 That's it - there's never going to be any end to the debating of decisions by refs and I fear yesterday's admission by Collum may be a rare moment of clarity because Celtic and, as we can see even in some of the replies here, some of their fans will rush to misinterpret that clarity - just as some of our fans think it doesn't go far enough - and, before long, the monthly VAR Show on UA-cam will become a front line war for claiming the SFA is out to get "them" more than it is "us". It'll probably just add another layer to the tediousness. Have you seen the Steve Coogan and John C Reilly film, Stan & Ollie (probably still on BBC iPlayer)? Very sad but also very interesting. I loved Laurel & Hardy when I was a kid and they used to show the repeats on early morning telly. Enjoy, sir - it'll be spring again before we know it All the best
Yes alex watched the Steve Coogan was sad too yes it's always good to question things in football bringing fairness and clarity is a must still not a fan of var they still can't get it right I think it holds up the game bring. Back the sat 3pm kick offs I hate Sunday games 12pm kick offs I suppose it's progress players need to focus on the dundee game and keep improving
Amazon Prime. Included with your package if you have it, Charles. Be prepared to walk out on anything else you are doing in 30 seconds flat if watching Heat for the first time is just around the corner👍
Hi in pace. Couple of recent have been incredible in their range. In the same way I love The Irishman ( quel surprise ) I enjoy the length but the references are brill too. I don't have the heart or stomach to even allude to " The Pen " - can I suggest we have a re match soon & see if there's a clear winner!! If we win will all this stop - naw!! A draw - a moral victory? You win - hope upon hope. BTW so enthralling is this controversy am making a last minute sojourn tae Paradise with only off chance of ticket... Just because!
Unfortunate that you'd find it embarrassing that Rangers fans would want foreign refs Eck and i could give you a catalogue of reasons why. I don't have to though because you've done a brilliant job for me in this pod. Here's the thing, wee wullie has done a brilliant job of flinging his var boys under the bus and has shown surprising transparency in doing it. The problem is what if the next five old firm games see a blatent punch of the ball out of the park followed by a perfectly good headed goal being chalked of despite the celtic player throwing himself to the ground followed by Rangers losing a fine Roofe goal because of an imaginary foul followed by Rangers losing a cup final despite foul on Raskin by Taylor or Rangers losing a cup final while the scorer and two others were offside, the later can't happen you say ,thats why var was brought in you say ,well Sunday was as bad a decision yet var missed it despite it being their only job and despite having an 18 yard line to assist them . I'm pretty sure we'd soon tire of wullies transparency if it was always followed by an apology for yet another kick in the stones for Rangers I'm a rational 61 year old bear and my only question is how many trophies will Rangers surrender untill the inevitable foreign refs are appointed. It's undeniable unconscious bias is in EVERY old firm fan and that's why we need neutrals howeverbad it looks. Oh and last thing for your celtic fans the late Bob Crampsey wrote an article in early 2000's where he forensically scoured the record books to discover that despite over a century of masonic influences celtic had less yellow cards, less red cards and more penalties than Rangers ,strange that and doesn’t support a century of paranoia. Rant over, although a long post seems at home on the Eck pod 😂
Glad to have found you again mate. Celtic fan here but enjoy your analysis. Try not to get sucked into to the petty jealousy and complaining about the penalty claims. Take it on the chin and keep supporting your team.
Glad you've found and patronised my pods, sir - much appreciated. You're more than welcome. I have to be honest and say i have a lot of Celtic friends getting in touch with me this week telling me to just chill, take it on the chin and move on. which, apart from the screaming hypocrisy, is in itself, is a mischaracterisation because I'm not getting involved in petty jealousies, am I. I'm actually explaining the ways in which the penalty we didn't get on Sunday may not necessarily have won us the league cup final and I'm generally sticking up for referees and the need to realise a million small decisions per game could have gone the other way. The only reason I'm talking about this is because the head of refereeing in Scotland has brought out a video admitting two of his officials made a horrific mistake in a game my team lost by the narrowest of margins. If I ignore that I'd be as well ignoring football altogether, wouldn't I. But quite happy for you to pass this "who cares - move on" attitude to your club's manager and chairman next time Celtic lose.
@@FatEck1999 Fair point mate. I admit I didn't watch this video all the way through so I probably made an assumption. Personally, I'm the kind of football fan who would just accept the loss and move on but I am well aware plenty of Celtic fans wouldn't. You're totally right though. Even if Rangers were given the penalty, it doesn't necessarily mean the result would have been different. There is no way of knowing. The next old firm at Ibrox will be a good one for sure!
Yeah buddy, on September 11 2001, I had been painting the window frames on the house that day I finished up , cleaned the brushes and myself, I sat down to watch the news eating at the time, I glanced up at the telly to see the first atrocity happen, at first I thought it was a trailer for a new movie, but obviously it became apparent that it was actually happening, that was real life and football is only a sport, that being said, that was obviously a penalty, ignored by Frank Connor on VAR, him and the other guy should be sacked, they've displayed bias towards Celtic, and that should be evidence enough to dismiss them.
@@MAZE4 glad to see you a bit more chatty in your posts than you were on Sunday night, Maze. You seemed really down and we were very worried about you. But I have to say there was no way that was bias towards Celtic on Sunday, by Frank Connor, any match official, or anyone at the SFA and I go to some length in this pod to explain why.
@FatEck1999 thanks for your concern buddy, but I won't change my nind regarding the cup final, to me that massive collusion, there's no point showing up and playing games if corruption is going to continually brazenly show itself.
Sorry, mate but it's fine on my devices. There is clearly a problem with my sound being out of synch with my fat mouth - and I'm trying to resolve it - but the volume is okay for me when I play it back.
@@desmtb Thanks for giving it your time again, Des. Appreciated. And, aye, you last sentence is exactly what I'm expecting to hear from Brendan's next presser. 😄
@@Tongo137😄😄 you're missing my joke, Tongo. In the same vein as Bob Hope: "I moved to the States from Britain when I was two years old... coz my career wasn't getting anywhere".
I think I’ll still like triumphalist eck. I still like my bluenose mates who were around when brian Ludrup was skinning Brian o’neil. Get it right up us. Gloat. Boast. Who cares. Winning isn’t winning. Playing beautifully is winning. Entertaining.
@@kianmcclure9528certainly better than listening to a self hating hu... hu... hu... bluenose like Limmy, eh. Come on, Kian - you still haven't explained that one. Give us the skinny on Limmy! (Edit: coz I always held him up as an example of how you couldn't dislike all Celtic fans even if you tried)
@@FatEck1999 but as a matter of public record his brother did 6 months prison for saying stuff online that was considered by the state to be sectarian and limmy does a hilarious skit on orange walls being a public shaming exercise of the most stupid people in scottish society.
both sets know how to twist things ...its just that the celtic board have learned to play the system as well as Rangers....game hinged on the 4 on 1..score and game is deid.
Or Balogun making a better decision when piling through in injury time in the first half... or Raskin getting a better contact on the ball for Maeda's goal... or on Yilmaz scoring his penalty... or on John Beaton carding Schmeichel straight away for his shenanigans during the shoot-out ... or on Rangers getting a penalty which the SFA have now acknowledged should have been a penalty. At no point in this pod have I said Rangers would definitely have won the game if we'd been awarded that penalty. And I point out there will inevitably be moments where Celtic could have done things better or got decisions in other areas of the pitch which would have let them win the game in 90 or 120 minutes. But your need to characterise that 4-on-1 chance as being the key moment is very telling. Perhaps a good example of twisting things but also revealing a desire to shut down and move on from an incident of rank incompetence which is, surely, a matter of concern for fans of all clubs. Celtic are the system right now and it's good to see them get even a tiny hint of a taste of what the rest of us had to live through for decades whenever we beat Celtic - having the legitimacy of your victory questioned.
... and then there's the whole "overcompensating for their supposed bias" and the "they only gave us that penalty - a mere crumb - to cover up the wider conspiracy against us" and then you have to factor in that most football fans are thinking "If I was a ref I'd definitely give everything to my team so that ref must be doing the same" when, of course, the ref doesn't think like you at all, and all the other wide array of assumptions people make about who is actually what to the point where you can alter reality to suit you and yet people who lose football matches are still unhappy and the stands are still full so, really, everybody has basic level of trust both in results and that the game isn't completely bent yet they're unwilling to own up to that basic trust lest their fellow fans call them naive or treacherous or both. Mad innit.
@@FatEck1999thanks Eck, great pod as always. I dropped of the social media for a few days, I’ve been here before, not good for the head and my own bias. I took in Tom Meighan during the week. He finished the set with 🔥 and it was a nice exit from my post Sunday therapy session. You being my first go to. Only good will come from all this. Onto Saturday and we go again. Keep up the best Gers pods ever. ❤
@@nollem41 yeah but this is a pod about the SFA's statement today. What you so scared of? Why do you want it swept under the carpet when it's chat about a game Celtic won? You do believe Celtic won, yes?
@@FatEck1999 I believe that Celtic won and that Rangers fan are having a hard time accepting it. This is why there is so much focus on a penalty claim despite penalties not being given being something that happens regularly in Football matches all over the world.
@FatEck1999 it would make a change it were the case,get over it var called the decision right rangers every chance of a penalty on the 2cnd probably won't matter.
Captain Willard, you're going all Kurtz on me here, as in I don't see any method at all in your posts. What ye saying, mate? You think I'm being too soft on the feeshelles - fair shout - or you just having a pop at their incompetence (another fair shout. So fair, in fact, it's backed up by their boss)?
@FatEck1999 hey ho away we go, do we just make it a free for all, or does it get sorted so these mistakes don't happen to any club. The VAR recording sounded like excited wee boys playing a video game, amateur hour.
'The SFA denied Rangers a trophy .. ' 🤔🤔🤔 No they didn't, Eck. The SFA cravenly surrendered to the Rangers narrative that they were 'denied' a penalty. The official reason from their fans beforehand was that Cerni's foot was on the line and therefore that meant it was a penalty. Apparently toenails had suddenly become acceptable again at Ibrox. Collum, hopelessly confused by the whole thing, said the foot on the line was 'irrelevant' then went on to say that part of Cerni's body was on the line, or even, shock horror, over it, therefore a penalty should have been given. Presumably Cerni's foot is also part of his body or maybe my understanding of the human anatomy requires some revision. During the incident not a single Rangers player, including Cerni himself, appeared to claim for a penalty. Rangers were awarded a free-kick just outside the box which seemed an obvious decision at the time. Even in the VAR room it clearly seemed to be so. It was only after the game when stills were produced that it appeared that a small part of Cerni's body, admittedly somewhat larger than a toenail, had crossed the line. So on another day if the VAR officials had had their magnifying glasses to hand Rangers might indeed have got their penalty. It is also fair to add that on another day Rangers might also have had two players sent off, one for a second yellow and the other for a dangerous tackle. No discussion on these whatsoever. So the idea that the losing side, deservedly so on the run of play and ultimate penalty shoot out, were denied the trophy due to a gross conspiracy by the authorities or some terrible injustice is, frankly, the stuff of pure paranoia. This latest SFA farce has set a very bad precedent and I do hope other clubs, including Celtic, are not tempted to go down a similar route the next time they feel aggrieved as that will result in chaos all round and will be disastrous for the game which we all profess to love.
@@gezobel thanks for listening to my pod, mate. Your reaction is beautifully deranged - I do not think the SFA denied us a trophy and, in fact, point out that Rangers can also be said to have denied ourselves the trophy by some of our slack play - so I hope your reply is a wee joke, or an exercise in assertion without evidence and outrageously weighted inferences, intended to very kindly prove the point I make in the pod about same. Most of the arguments you address here seem to be arguments you've made up yourself. I'm just referring to today's SFA admission of the blatant mistake the VAR officials made at the start of extra time on Sunday. All you're doing is showing how that admission, of a mistake which cannot be rectified and which can't - and shouldn't - change the result of Sunday's final, seems to be terrifying one fan of a club that's won five trebles, a double and The Double in the last eight seasons.
And shouldn’t. Who cares. If rangers were the better team then enjoy that. Fuck refs. Fuck rules. Let’s care about footbal and yer team have been really good as far as I can see. Football is art and awards in art are interesting but not the end game. Practising your art in the most honest way is the end game.
Okay then, it really must be me .. I'm 'deranged' ... I've had much worse insults even from some Celtic fans, believe me. 😁. I shall listen to your pod again to discover exactly what I misunderstood .. I have a full morning free and I always enjoy your offerings anyway. These are quite unique in football circles as far as I can see. Not sure I made up anything at all though the introduction of toenails into my post was meant as a bit of a naughty joke, tbh, but, as apologies to Rangers and their fans now seem to be the general order of the day, many apologies for that. offence which disgracefully went unnoticed by any VAR officials on here.😊 Best Wishes, Alec!
@@kianmcclure9528refs and rules are football, Kian. They're the rhyme scheme, the picture frame, the constraints of the stage. The art only counts if it happens within the designated parameters which deem it art in the first place. There's a reason some ball-jugglers are half-time entertainers who never play professional football and why some are Maradona - the ones who can do it within the rules of the game, albeit they'll push those boundaries to their limit, are the true artists. No refs is no paint, no costumes, no celluloid - no art.
@@gezobelno, your POST is deranged - not yourself - and I said it was BEAUTIFULLY deranged so, again, Gezobel, you're showing a determination to misinterpret, while also a determination to be a gent: who could have a problem with that. Not I, as Samuel Beckett said: Not I😅❤
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” 🎥 Ignore the nonsense, the irrelevant & the noise 😂🇬🇧 We Go Again…
Zzzz sevco the only club to ever have a wrong call what’s the odds they hat a PK this weekend? Couldn’t mark your necks with a blowtorch, your club is totally irrelevant now suck it up it’s going to be this way for years, if you sell Igaman for £25 million you’ll be able to pay Aberdeen and buy your loanees but if you sell igaman surely Cheney’s worth £50 mil 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥱🥱
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I’m a Celtic man, 23 years in LA. Your brain vibrates at the same frequency as mine. I love your literature and movie shout outs. Keep at it Alex - Subscribed 👍🏻
@@Stephen-zn3lk Many thanks, Stephen. Very kind, sir. And I'm very jealous you get to check out the Heat locations whenever you feel like it! My brother will meet you at BJ's on Alvarado at 2am...
An hour or so into the podcast I decided to look see if I could find a video of Heat on youtube. Just watched the 2 hours and 43 minutes of it, in Spanish.
Thanks for the podcast Alec, alternative excellence.
@@simonb2452 El Calor? Muy, muy bien, Simon. It's not even my favourite film - it's just the one I can't stop thinking about. And many thanks for getting so far into my wee pod. I'm supposed to be ashamed of their length - and my verbosity does often worry me - but I still find "an hour or so into your podcast" a beautiful start to a reply. Cheers, sir.
Good upload Alex, very enjoyable listen. Have a great Christmas and New Year 👍
This is a podcast unlike any other, great stuff, well done.
Many thanks, pal - and your handle is very cool: a landscape gardener unlike any other!
@@FatEck1999 Can you dig it ?
When do we get to hear the audio from the Jonson hand ball incident, when do we get to hear the VAR audio as it happens, not after it may have been edited, or invented, just like the photo of Sima offside, allegedly?
Excellent listen again sir! Still totally seething with regards to the outcome of that honest mistake! 🤬🤬🤣 Couldn’t care less if they discipline the officials - it changes nothing! Just replay the game! 😂😂
😆😆And I thought I was being clickbaity with my headline, Andy! 😅 Can you imagine if they did replay the game - absolute carnage. I'd want the Scottish Cup final replayed too... the 1989 Scottish Cup final, that is.
Aye, brutal mistake, sir. I'll get over it sometime shortly after my dementia kicks in.
Thanks for giving it a listen, mate👍
Alec, lovely pod again. Balanced personal review from you, I watched Collums VAR review and I must admit was refreshing to hear his full debrief of that bad decision. Listen, as a staunch supporter of the Famous, this was a mistake and I understand this fully. As a retired Fire Service Officer I made mistakes and sometimes was ‘kicked’ by my bosses. Some of these ‘mistakes’ was sore to take but the reflection made me a better Fire Officer going forward. I do remember how I felt after these events so I do feel some sympathy for the VAR team., especially how they are feeling after the event. I only hope this ‘bad mistake’ makes the official environment better, going forward. Painful loss for the Gers on Sunday and boy did I feel it but to blame our defeat on this mistake is plainly wrong. This situation just adds vitriol to the back and fore crap between the supporters (some of which I read here). This event had nothing to do with supposed referee allegiances, it was just a bad mistake hopefully 🙏 being followed up by future improvements. My only personal grievance is mistakes in the past we’re not reviewed in full view, this has now changed and I welcome Willie Collums ‘open’ debriefs with attached Official communications on the park. Sorry Eck, long rant over !! PS nothing worse than being judged by your ‘Peers’ especially in full public view.
Brilliant to see your content again!
Many thanks for checking it out again, Robert. Appreciated, sir.👍
Pat Riley - superbly played Adrien Brody in the wonderful Winning Time. HBO cancelling that show after 2 seasons was nearly as big a crime as that decision on Sunday.
@@multipleman78 Will try and find that and give it a wee watch, MultipleMan. Sounds good. Aye, Vincent Hanna's seen some major robberies but, last Sunday...
Heat what a movie, as an ex soldier , Heat is the only movie that I can recall that portrays an accurate account of fire and manoeuvre , changing mags, firing from vehicles when they exit the bank.. Great stuff.
Aye, Steven the cast were trained in pre-production by Andy McNab and one other ex-SAS guy on how to do same. Apparently Val Kilmer's execution of all these skills, in the bank job shoot-out, is so good it's used in US military training videos.
Love that film, mate.
@@FatEck1999 It's a great film with two of the best actors known to man.
Another good pod alex you always get it spot on looking forward to the dundee preview what a week its been we could discuss this for years the rights and wrongs no doubt there will be more in the future thats the nature of football yes it was .. no it wasnt .. wont go there with the casuals battle of sherifmuir part 2 these idiots think they represent the clubs sad to say just realized i made a social comment the brain has re awoken 😅 cheered myself up a bit watched a few laurel and hardy films they are good especally this time of year when its total darkness for most of the day olly yes stanley ... stanley with a silly lost look ...ollie . . Thats another fine mess you gotten me into ..hmmmp😅😅😅 best alex
😆😆cheers, mate, Thanks for watching again. Much appreciated. Can't believe you got into the social commentary - no place for that in a forensically focussed podcast like mine😆
That's it - there's never going to be any end to the debating of decisions by refs and I fear yesterday's admission by Collum may be a rare moment of clarity because Celtic and, as we can see even in some of the replies here, some of their fans will rush to misinterpret that clarity - just as some of our fans think it doesn't go far enough - and, before long, the monthly VAR Show on UA-cam will become a front line war for claiming the SFA is out to get "them" more than it is "us".
It'll probably just add another layer to the tediousness.
Have you seen the Steve Coogan and John C Reilly film, Stan & Ollie (probably still on BBC iPlayer)? Very sad but also very interesting. I loved Laurel & Hardy when I was a kid and they used to show the repeats on early morning telly. Enjoy, sir - it'll be spring again before we know it
All the best
Yes alex watched the Steve Coogan was sad too yes it's always good to question things in football bringing fairness and clarity is a must still not a fan of var they still can't get it right I think it holds up the game bring. Back the sat 3pm kick offs I hate Sunday games 12pm kick offs I suppose it's progress players need to focus on the dundee game and keep improving
@@wboyle9721 3PM Saturday KO tomorrow, sir - aye, we need to get back to winning ways asap. No time to feel sorry for ourselves.
I think big phil gets it and he will do his best to turn this round
Gets what? How to make excuses after every single game?
Ive never seen HEAT. Im definitely going to have to watch it tho 😅
Amazon Prime. Included with your package if you have it, Charles. Be prepared to walk out on anything else you are doing in 30 seconds flat if watching Heat for the first time is just around the corner👍
@@FatEck1999 I'm a fully subscribed amazon member. That's my Saturday night sorted. Cheers Alec 😁👍
It's not as good as he says. He's intellectualised it into importance. Yours aye, Donnie Brasco
Hi in pace. Couple of recent have been incredible in their range. In the same way I love The Irishman ( quel surprise ) I enjoy the length but the references are brill too.
I don't have the heart or stomach to even allude to " The Pen " - can I suggest we have a re match soon & see if there's a clear winner!! If we win will all this stop - naw!! A draw - a moral victory? You win - hope upon hope.
BTW so enthralling is this controversy am making a last minute sojourn tae Paradise with only off chance of ticket... Just because!
Unfortunate that you'd find it embarrassing that Rangers fans would want foreign refs Eck and i could give you a catalogue of reasons why. I don't have to though because you've done a brilliant job for me in this pod. Here's the thing, wee wullie has done a brilliant job of flinging his var boys under the bus and has shown surprising transparency in doing it. The problem is what if the next five old firm games see a blatent punch of the ball out of the park followed by a perfectly good headed goal being chalked of despite the celtic player throwing himself to the ground followed by Rangers losing a fine Roofe goal because of an imaginary foul followed by Rangers losing a cup final despite foul on Raskin by Taylor or Rangers losing a cup final while the scorer and two others were offside, the later can't happen you say ,thats why var was brought in you say ,well Sunday was as bad a decision yet var missed it despite it being their only job and despite having an 18 yard line to assist them . I'm pretty sure we'd soon tire of wullies transparency if it was always followed by an apology for yet another kick in the stones for Rangers I'm a rational 61 year old bear and my only question is how many trophies will Rangers surrender untill the inevitable foreign refs are appointed. It's undeniable unconscious bias is in EVERY old firm fan and that's why we need neutrals howeverbad it looks. Oh and last thing for your celtic fans the late Bob Crampsey wrote an article in early 2000's where he forensically scoured the record books to discover that despite over a century of masonic influences celtic had less yellow cards, less red cards and more penalties than Rangers ,strange that and doesn’t support a century of paranoia. Rant over, although a long post seems at home on the Eck pod 😂
Glad to have found you again mate. Celtic fan here but enjoy your analysis. Try not to get sucked into to the petty jealousy and complaining about the penalty claims. Take it on the chin and keep supporting your team.
Glad you've found and patronised my pods, sir - much appreciated. You're more than welcome. I have to be honest and say i have a lot of Celtic friends getting in touch with me this week telling me to just chill, take it on the chin and move on. which, apart from the screaming hypocrisy, is in itself, is a mischaracterisation because I'm not getting involved in petty jealousies, am I.
I'm actually explaining the ways in which the penalty we didn't get on Sunday may not necessarily have won us the league cup final and I'm generally sticking up for referees and the need to realise a million small decisions per game could have gone the other way.
The only reason I'm talking about this is because the head of refereeing in Scotland has brought out a video admitting two of his officials made a horrific mistake in a game my team lost by the narrowest of margins. If I ignore that I'd be as well ignoring football altogether, wouldn't I.
But quite happy for you to pass this "who cares - move on" attitude to your club's manager and chairman next time Celtic lose.
@@FatEck1999 Fair point mate. I admit I didn't watch this video all the way through so I probably made an assumption. Personally, I'm the kind of football fan who would just accept the loss and move on but I am well aware plenty of Celtic fans wouldn't.
You're totally right though. Even if Rangers were given the penalty, it doesn't necessarily mean the result would have been different. There is no way of knowing. The next old firm at Ibrox will be a good one for sure!
Yeah buddy, on September 11 2001, I had been painting the window frames on the house that day I finished up , cleaned the brushes and myself, I sat down to watch the news eating at the time, I glanced up at the telly to see the first atrocity happen, at first I thought it was a trailer for a new movie, but obviously it became apparent that it was actually happening, that was real life and football is only a sport, that being said, that was obviously a penalty, ignored by Frank Connor on VAR, him and the other guy should be sacked, they've displayed bias towards Celtic, and that should be evidence enough to dismiss them.
@@MAZE4 glad to see you a bit more chatty in your posts than you were on Sunday night, Maze. You seemed really down and we were very worried about you.
But I have to say there was no way that was bias towards Celtic on Sunday, by Frank Connor, any match official, or anyone at the SFA and I go to some length in this pod to explain why.
Aye alec 😅
@FatEck1999 thanks for your concern buddy, but I won't change my nind regarding the cup final, to me that massive collusion, there's no point showing up and playing games if corruption is going to continually brazenly show itself.
@@Tongo137 the level of corruption in the league isn't a lot, but it's enough get them over the line.
It should have been a penalty btw.
Nicolas Kuhn / Oliver Kahn. Could they be the same person?
Alec, there is an issue with the volume. It's too low on most (all?) Your videos
Sorry, mate but it's fine on my devices. There is clearly a problem with my sound being out of synch with my fat mouth - and I'm trying to resolve it - but the volume is okay for me when I play it back.
@FatEck1999 haha. No but seriously. Whatever device I listen to you on, i always have to raise the volume almost to the maximum.
Excellent analysis as usual. Celtic fan here, appreciate your views. Wonder how many penalties Gers will get on Jan 2nd. 😂
Even if Rangers get 3 dodgy penalties it seems the current crop of celtic fans will take it on the chin without fuss, well so they're saying 😂😂😂
@@desmtb Thanks for giving it your time again, Des. Appreciated. And, aye, you last sentence is exactly what I'm expecting to hear from Brendan's next presser. 😄
I don't know if u know this alec. When I was a teenager check out jim callaghan banned for sending off rangers players and giving celtic everything
Year I was born, mate. Meaning (a) a long time ago and (b) my opinions about it at the time went totally unrecorded.
Wot do u mean callaghan who I knew. Was blatant celtic. They still gave him big old firm games. The point is it's no new
Alec no the time
@@Tongo137😄😄 you're missing my joke, Tongo. In the same vein as Bob Hope: "I moved to the States from Britain when I was two years old... coz my career wasn't getting anywhere".
Aye sorry alec
I think I’ll still like triumphalist eck. I still like my bluenose mates who were around when brian Ludrup was skinning Brian o’neil. Get it right up us. Gloat. Boast. Who cares. Winning isn’t winning. Playing beautifully is winning. Entertaining.
@@kianmcclure9528certainly better than listening to a self hating hu... hu... hu... bluenose like Limmy, eh. Come on, Kian - you still haven't explained that one. Give us the skinny on Limmy! (Edit: coz I always held him up as an example of how you couldn't dislike all Celtic fans even if you tried)
@@FatEck1999 but as a matter of public record his brother did 6 months prison for saying stuff online that was considered by the state to be sectarian and limmy does a hilarious skit on orange walls being a public shaming exercise of the most stupid people in scottish society.
@@FatEck1999 take a compliment btw. Even if it’s qualified.
both sets know how to twist things ...its just that the celtic board have learned to play the system as well as Rangers....game hinged on the 4 on 1..score and game is deid.
Or Balogun making a better decision when piling through in injury time in the first half... or Raskin getting a better contact on the ball for Maeda's goal... or on Yilmaz scoring his penalty... or on John Beaton carding Schmeichel straight away for his shenanigans during the shoot-out ... or on Rangers getting a penalty which the SFA have now acknowledged should have been a penalty.
At no point in this pod have I said Rangers would definitely have won the game if we'd been awarded that penalty. And I point out there will inevitably be moments where Celtic could have done things better or got decisions in other areas of the pitch which would have let them win the game in 90 or 120 minutes.
But your need to characterise that 4-on-1 chance as being the key moment is very telling. Perhaps a good example of twisting things but also revealing a desire to shut down and move on from an incident of rank incompetence which is, surely, a matter of concern for fans of all clubs.
Celtic are the system right now and it's good to see them get even a tiny hint of a taste of what the rest of us had to live through for decades whenever we beat Celtic - having the legitimacy of your victory questioned.
Alec enough wi heat we are listening fo u
@@Tongo137 just switch off when you don't like it, Tongo. The Heat stuff will never stop. It'll be in most of my pods. Only fair I let you know.
Ahbut yeah but, they missed a penalty in a cup final, it's their job!!!!!!! A that's just one instance.
Conscious or unconscious bias?
... and then there's the whole "overcompensating for their supposed bias" and the "they only gave us that penalty - a mere crumb - to cover up the wider conspiracy against us" and then you have to factor in that most football fans are thinking "If I was a ref I'd definitely give everything to my team so that ref must be doing the same" when, of course, the ref doesn't think like you at all, and all the other wide array of assumptions people make about who is actually what to the point where you can alter reality to suit you and yet people who lose football matches are still unhappy and the stands are still full so, really, everybody has basic level of trust both in results and that the game isn't completely bent yet they're unwilling to own up to that basic trust lest their fellow fans call them naive or treacherous or both.
Mad innit.
@@FatEck1999thanks Eck, great pod as always. I dropped of the social media for a few days, I’ve been here before, not good for the head and my own bias. I took in Tom Meighan during the week. He finished the set with 🔥 and it was a nice exit from my post Sunday therapy session. You being my first go to. Only good will come from all this. Onto Saturday and we go again. Keep up the best Gers pods ever. ❤
Eck, i know you're a blue intellectual. But could you no see yer way, to no, making yer vids, so long?
@joe9042Ach, sorry, Joe. Just switch them off half-way through, mate. I will not be offended if you leave once you have what you need😉
GIVE THIS A REST IT'S OVER FINISHED RANGERS WERE BEATEN!
@@nollem41 yeah but this is a pod about the SFA's statement today. What you so scared of? Why do you want it swept under the carpet when it's chat about a game Celtic won? You do believe Celtic won, yes?
@@FatEck1999 I believe that Celtic won and that Rangers fan are having a hard time accepting it. This is why there is so much focus on a penalty claim despite penalties not being given being something that happens regularly in Football matches all over the world.
Rangers Dont Ever Forgive Th SFA For This Corrput Cheating
It wasn't a penalty anyway.
😆Of course not, Mate - Brendan's opinion overrules the Head of Refereeing's
@FatEck1999 it would make a change it were the case,get over it var called the decision right rangers every chance of a penalty on the 2cnd probably won't matter.
Might not have scored the penalty ah well don't bother giving one
Captain Willard, you're going all Kurtz on me here, as in I don't see any method at all in your posts. What ye saying, mate? You think I'm being too soft on the feeshelles - fair shout - or you just having a pop at their incompetence (another fair shout. So fair, in fact, it's backed up by their boss)?
@FatEck1999 hey ho away we go, do we just make it a free for all, or does it get sorted so these mistakes don't happen to any club. The VAR recording sounded like excited wee boys playing a video game, amateur hour.
The horror, the horror
@cptwillard2448 never get off the boat!🐅
'The SFA denied Rangers a trophy .. ' 🤔🤔🤔
No they didn't, Eck. The SFA cravenly surrendered to the Rangers narrative that they were 'denied' a penalty. The official reason from their fans beforehand was that Cerni's foot was on the line and therefore that meant it was a penalty. Apparently toenails had suddenly become acceptable again at Ibrox. Collum, hopelessly confused by the whole thing, said the foot on the line was 'irrelevant' then went on to say that part of Cerni's body was on the line, or even, shock horror, over it, therefore a penalty should have been given. Presumably Cerni's foot is also part of his body or maybe my understanding of the human anatomy requires some revision. During the incident not a single Rangers player, including Cerni himself, appeared to claim for a penalty. Rangers were awarded a free-kick just outside the box which seemed an obvious decision at the time. Even in the VAR room it clearly seemed to be so. It was only after the game when stills were produced that it appeared that a small part of Cerni's body, admittedly somewhat larger than a toenail, had crossed the line. So on another day if the VAR officials had had their magnifying glasses to hand Rangers might indeed have got their penalty. It is also fair to add that on another day Rangers might also have had two players sent off, one for a second yellow and the other for a dangerous tackle. No discussion on these whatsoever. So the idea that the losing side, deservedly so on the run of play and ultimate penalty shoot out, were denied the trophy due to a gross conspiracy by the authorities or some terrible injustice is, frankly, the stuff of pure paranoia. This latest SFA farce has set a very bad precedent and I do hope other clubs, including Celtic, are not tempted to go down a similar route the next time they feel aggrieved as that will result in chaos all round and will be disastrous for the game which we all profess to love.
@@gezobel thanks for listening to my pod, mate. Your reaction is beautifully deranged - I do not think the SFA denied us a trophy and, in fact, point out that Rangers can also be said to have denied ourselves the trophy by some of our slack play - so I hope your reply is a wee joke, or an exercise in assertion without evidence and outrageously weighted inferences, intended to very kindly prove the point I make in the pod about same.
Most of the arguments you address here seem to be arguments you've made up yourself. I'm just referring to today's SFA admission of the blatant mistake the VAR officials made at the start of extra time on Sunday. All you're doing is showing how that admission, of a mistake which cannot be rectified and which can't - and shouldn't - change the result of Sunday's final, seems to be terrifying one fan of a club that's won five trebles, a double and The Double in the last eight seasons.
And shouldn’t. Who cares. If rangers were the better team then enjoy that. Fuck refs. Fuck rules. Let’s care about footbal and yer team have been really good as far as I can see. Football is art and awards in art are interesting but not the end game. Practising your art in the most honest way is the end game.
Okay then, it really must be me .. I'm 'deranged' ... I've had much worse insults even from some Celtic fans, believe me. 😁.
I shall listen to your pod again to discover exactly what I misunderstood .. I have a full morning free and I always enjoy your offerings anyway. These are quite unique in football circles as far as I can see.
Not sure I made up anything at all though the introduction of toenails into my post was meant as a bit of a naughty joke, tbh, but, as apologies to Rangers and their fans now seem to be the general order of the day, many apologies for that. offence which disgracefully went unnoticed by any VAR officials on here.😊
Best Wishes, Alec!
@@kianmcclure9528refs and rules are football, Kian. They're the rhyme scheme, the picture frame, the constraints of the stage. The art only counts if it happens within the designated parameters which deem it art in the first place. There's a reason some ball-jugglers are half-time entertainers who never play professional football and why some are Maradona - the ones who can do it within the rules of the game, albeit they'll push those boundaries to their limit, are the true artists. No refs is no paint, no costumes, no celluloid - no art.
@@gezobelno, your POST is deranged - not yourself - and I said it was BEAUTIFULLY deranged so, again, Gezobel, you're showing a determination to misinterpret, while also a determination to be a gent: who could have a problem with that. Not I, as Samuel Beckett said: Not I😅❤
“Don't let yourself get attached to anything you are not willing to walk out on in 30 seconds flat if you feel the heat around the corner.” 🎥
Ignore the nonsense, the irrelevant & the noise 😂🇬🇧 We Go Again…
What a stupid title for a video.
Thank you, Adam. That was the idea (it's explained in the pod). Clickbait R Us.
Thank you ‘Eck … a breath of fresh air from some of the stench that has surfaced from Sunday ❤️🤍💙
Zzzz sevco the only club to ever have a wrong call what’s the odds they hat a PK this weekend? Couldn’t mark your necks with a blowtorch, your club is totally irrelevant now suck it up it’s going to be this way for years, if you sell Igaman for £25 million you’ll be able to pay Aberdeen and buy your loanees but if you sell igaman surely Cheney’s worth £50 mil 🤣🤣🤣🤣🥱🥱
Totally irrelevant, Christopher so we appreciate you giving us a bit of attention here, mate. Many thanks.