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00:00Hello and welcome to Glasgow World Fitbit Talk with me Martin Simpson and Lewis Anderson

00:08once again here to discuss all the latest from Celtic and Rangers results at the weekend

00:13and looking ahead to their upcoming fixtures.

00:15We'll start with Celtic Lewis, a fairly convincing win over Motherwell but a match that was certainly

00:22fraught with plenty of flashpoints, what were your take on some of the key instants?

00:26Yeah it was a fairly convincing performance in the end from Celtic, Motherwell did kind

00:31of have their chances at the start of the game, didn't take them and ultimately were

00:35punished for that.

00:37There were a couple of talking points throughout this one, in particular the penalty decision,

00:45the referee David Dickinson's decision to disallow Dyson Maida's goal with Celtic leading

00:521-0 at the time.

00:55Under what looked at first viewing a penalty it was difficult to see from our angle and

01:02the television angle whether or not it was a kind of handball, you couldn't actually

01:07see from the angle of Maida did actually touch the ball in the process of it going into the

01:12back of the net.

01:13Obviously there was a bit of controversy around that, there seemed to be a great deal of confusion

01:19around the players reaction in particular, I think some of the Celtic players were quite

01:23slow to congratulate their team mate after he scored.

01:30I think it's a difficult one, I think there's two sides to this one Martin, I think obviously

01:36the ball clearly does strike his arm so it is technically a handball but you'd also say

01:42that the challenge from Steven O'Donnell, the covering Motherwell defender is pretty

01:48clumsy, he's come in at an angle, he's got his body positioning all wrong and he's clattered

01:55into Maida who has every right to go down in that type of scenario and it was quite

02:04clear that David Dickinson the referee had no idea what to award there.

02:13The VAR side of things took a couple of minutes to clear up as well before the goal was eventually

02:19chalked off.

02:20So what's your understanding on that Lewis, because people do get a bit confused by VAR,

02:24so it couldn't be a penalty because he awarded the goal and VAR can only rule on whether

02:31or not it's a goal, they can't say that is not a goal but it is a penalty, is that basically

02:37how it works?

02:38Yeah that's kind of my understanding of it Martin, for me it's ridiculous, on initial

02:46viewing as I said for me it was a penalty because you see a kind of, it's not as if

02:52he's kind of barged into him but O'Donnell's come in from an angle as I said, he's come

02:58from kind of side on rather than actually came straight in behind him if you like, so

03:05he's got himself tangled up and that's obviously happened before the ball has struck Maida's

03:12arm, it happens just a split second or two before it, so in my opinion it was a penalty

03:18albeit in the end up Celtic went on to win the game fairly comfortably.

03:27And obviously the second real talking point was the sending off of Motherwell defender

03:32Liam Gordon right at the end of the game, it was a fairly rash challenge on Adam Maida,

03:40I think the initial thought from watching on the telly was that he did catch him late,

03:48his studs were showing, it's one of them ones Martin, I think on initial viewing it maybe

03:53doesn't look as bad but then when it's slowed down it's quite clear that he can't have

03:59any complaints there, I think Dickinson obviously booked him initially but it's one of those

04:05ones he's been called over to the monitor and as soon as that happens you know there's

04:09only one way he's going, so I think in that one it was the correct decision, I think he

04:19got the Maida one wrong but yes certainly two real talking points there, I know Brendan

04:26Rodgers spoke a lot about the Ida challenge post-match and he was pretty disgruntled by

04:32it as well, so overall one correct and one that I think needs a clearing up a bit.

04:40Well before we move on let's talk about something positive, other than just a result,

04:45a player for Celtic I've been really impressed with this season has been Luke McEwan, I think

04:51we've seen it time and time again not just with Celtic and Rangers where they sort of

04:54snap up players from other clubs in Scotland and they go on to kind of be bit parts squad

05:00players there and McEwan I think we know Calum MacGregor's not going anywhere, Celtic have

05:05splashed the cash on Arnie Engels, they've also got Rio Hattati and there's also competition

05:10from the likes of Paolo Bernardo and Odin Tiago home but any chance McEwan gets to stake a claim

05:17to a slot he's doing his best to do it and his stats this season have been great, I think

05:23MacGregor's due to miss the next game so I would expect him to start once again and honestly

05:28I wouldn't be too surprised if Stevie Clarke's having a look at him for the Scotland set up.

05:33Yeah I'm kind of surprised, obviously going to Celtic certainly going to enhance his chances

05:39of breaking into the national team, certainly at times last season for Dundee I thought he was

05:45probably one of the arguably one of the best central midfielders in Scottish football and

05:51he's obviously had to bide his time coming to Celtic, I think that was always going to be the

05:54case given the the calibre of player he's come up against but he's been very

06:01impressive in a number of cameo appearances so far, certainly chipped in with a couple of goals

06:06as well and he's a leader as much as he's just a fresh face in the door and obviously

06:14he'll kind of take a bit of time to find his voice being around the likes of MacGregor and

06:18learning off these guys and he was a captain wasn't he at Dundee so he's already got those

06:24kind of qualities and given his chance there on Sunday and certainly took it in my opinion

06:31a lot of Celtic's attack and play came down the right hand side and he was the one

06:36kind of instrumental in dictating a lot of that from the middle of the park so

06:41should definitely get more of a chance going forward, you'd imagine it'll be more

06:48kind of limited in terms of starts to potentially your cup games going forward but you know Cal

06:55MacGregor, yes he's still the kind of key cog in the Celtic midfield but he's not getting any

07:01younger Martin so I think Luke McEwan certainly would be really good

07:08player to kind of fill his boots when MacGregor does eventually hang up. You say he's not getting

07:13any younger but I mean I feel like just because he's been around for so long we feel

07:18like he's older than he is, Calum MacGregor is only 31 years old, he's younger than I am

07:23if Calum MacGregor plays on as long as Scott Brown did then he's got another

07:29what six, seven seasons at Celtic Park he's not going anywhere anytime soon for my money

07:35and obviously his game time will be kind of monitored a lot closely now that he's obviously

07:40taking the decision to kind of withdraw himself from the international scene and given the

07:46amount of games he's already kind of had a couple of niggly issues so far this season so I just think

07:50going forward that McEwan eventually will get kind of phased into the team a bit more and we'll

07:57see what he can really showcase. Well he'll get a chance to showcase himself probably against

08:04his old club this midweek, Celtic against Dundee, you'll think Celtic have got to be heavy favourites

08:10for that, Dundee not in the best form and now they've got to go to Celtic Park but there's absolutely

08:15no doubt whatsoever what the big midweek game is, Rangers are going to Petaudry, Aberdeen

08:21another win against Dundee United, Rangers did beat St Mirren at home but you have to say that

08:26they weren't all that convincing, another day St Mirren could have got something from that game

08:32Yeah I think by all reports they were miles off it again, still a better team

08:38from what I saw from it but I don't expect Rangers to be more dominant than they were

08:45Yeah and given St Mirren were obviously coming off the back of arguably their worst performance

08:49of the season against Hearts the weekend before, you kind of thought on paper that you know Rangers

08:53particularly at home would win this game fairly comfortably and St Mirren did have a couple of

08:58good opportunities in the first half, they had the Ole Ousania goal that was ruled out

09:03and certainly a much improved performance from them and obviously Rangers once again relying

09:08on Vaclav Cerny to kind of come to their rescue in the end, should have been more convincing

09:15they had chances to kind of really kill the game but that's been their Achilles heel a lot of the

09:19time this season when they have been winning positions they haven't been convincing when

09:22they have hit the front and obviously Clement spoke post-match didn't he about the kind of

09:29lack of intensity around their play and obviously going up to Petaudry it's going to be a huge ask

09:35for Rangers on current form, you know Aberdeen are absolutely flying, another win on Saturday

09:41against Dundee United when you know they looked for a long stage that that was going to be a

09:48goalless draw so that they're coming up trumps again and so it's going to be a massive task

09:53and Rangers on that performance yesterday are going to have to certainly up their performance

09:59level that's been a lack of consistency really troubling them this season they can't seem to

10:05string two or three performances together which will be a huge concern and ultimately the need

10:10to win this game don't they it's I know we're still relatively early in the season but you know

10:16in terms of keeping on Celtic and Aberdeen's coattails at the top of the table they can't

10:22afford to be dropping many more points Martin. Where would defeat leave Philippe Clement?

10:31Well obviously the fans are certainly turning against him now aren't they I think and they're

10:37fed up with the kind of excuses he's coming up with and in the press conferences and seems very

10:43set on the formation he kind of refuses to to change that I know he obviously made the big

10:48call at the weekend to drop James Tavernier and bring in Kasson Weardjoe who was arguably one of

10:54Rangers best players but I think you know he's been a year in the door a majority of Rangers

11:02fans will say where's the improvement and I don't think we've seen it based on the squad

11:07they had last season and some of the players they've replaced the likes of Seema bringing in

11:12Cherney I'm not convinced that that's you know an upgrade in my view to some of the players

11:18they had last season so I think certainly question marks will be raised I still think

11:23he'll be given time given that obviously he has just signed this new contract albeit seemed

11:30bizarre timing to me that he was he was handed that but I do think he will stay in a job

11:38for the time being I don't think Rangers in a position at the moment from a financial standpoint

11:43to be getting rid of him at this moment in time.

11:46Well that's all we've got time for thanks very much for Lewis for joining me

11:51we'll be back in the future to discuss more Celtic and Rangers conflict.

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