Celtic
Pat Bonner puts BBC pundits straight over Hyunjun Yang’s red card in Celtic’s defeat at Hearts
As the fallout over Celtic’s defeat to Hearts rumbles on, the VAR controversy surrounding this looks like it is going to rumble on and on for the rest of next week.
The defeat means Celtic remain two points behind Rangers after the Ibrox club suffered their own set-back in their 2-1 loss to Motherwell.
But for Brendan Rodgers, he will see this as an opportunity missed as VAR denied Celtic the chance to take advantage of Rangers’ slip-up after two controversial decisions left Rodgers’ side with a mountain to climb.
But it was one in particular that left Pat Bonner absolutely seething and he was in no mood to debate it with his BBC colleagues during the post-match analysis.
Pat Bonner rages at Hyunjun Yang red card
Bonner was in no doubt what he thought of the challenge on first viewing [BBC Radio Scotland], “I think that would be really unfortunate for Yang on that occasion.
“I’ll be honest with you, yes, the boot was high, but it wasn’t intentional from my perspective.”
After the benefit of watching replays post-match, Bonner’s stance remained firm as Richard Gordon and Allan Preston debated the decision.
Gordon: “I mean for me, that’s a red card all day long.”
Preston: “Yeah. I’ve got to agree with you Richard now that I’ve seen it for first the time. And the referee gives a yellow to begin with…”
Bonner then interjected and confirmed his stance, “Look, I’m not going to argue, when you see it on that angle there, you know, and that’s again TV, when you watch at a certain angle on TV, it looks as if (it’s dangerous).
“I just thought that he was trying to flick the ball over him.”
Like I said at the beginning, this controversy is likely to rumble on all week as the impact this result has on the title race sinks in.
Celtic had the opportunity to leapfrog Rangers and claim the top spot in the Scottish Premiership but the standings remain as they are as both Glasgow clubs stumble.
Next up for Celtic is a break from league title duty as the quarter-final of the Scottish Cup beckons next Sunday and a visit of David Martindale‘s Livingston.
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