The past couple of days have been fun for the Celtic fans. A win in the Glasgow Derby takes Brendan Rodgers to within a point of another league title.
If Celtic get something from Kilmarnock midweek, then Saturday’s game against St Mirren will allow the Hoops boss to enjoy the game against the Paisley side and Rodgers can have fun without anyone taking offence.
However, had Celtic not beat Rangers on Saturday then it would have been a slightly more nervy week.
But Rodgers’ team rose to the challenge and, alongside John Lundstram’s red card, the Hoops claimed all three points to make this week one of excitement and not nerves.
But it was what Graeme Souness seemed to suggest about the red card that really caught my attention as the former Rangers boss struggles to cope with the reality of another Celtic Glasgow Derby win.
Alistair Johnston ‘made a meal’ of Lundstram tackle
Speaking on talkSPORT this morning, Souness was giving his opinion on the result when he made this strange suggestion about Alistair Johnston‘s role in Lundstram’s red card.
Souness said [talkSPORT], “I think the sending off was a sending off in the modern game. He’s got a nano-second to think about it.
“He thinks he’s favourite for it, but the temptation is too great.
“He went to ground and you go to ground today you risk everything. Whoever you tackle will make a meal of it.
“Now that’s not being critical of the Celtic fullback, whose name escapes me but that’s right throughout the game in every country you watch the game played.”
So if Souness wasn’t being ‘critical’ of Johnston, why bring it up at all? That was a red-card tackle all day long.
The only pundits that seem to think that there is some dubiety over the red card are Souness and former Rangers striker, Kenny Miller.
VAR made the right call to ask Willie Collum to take a look at the tackle again. I’ve watched it over and over and everytime I see it, the tackle looks worse.
There is no debate and I’m sure if Souness takes another look, he will see that the only person who made a meal of that tackle was Lundstram after he recklessly jumped in with high studs on the Celtic fullback’s ankle.
