Former referee Steve Conroy has demanded football return to simpler times after penalty incidents involving both Rangers and Celtic over the weekend.
The first call to give him the hump is Ryan Alebiosu being deemed to have handled the ball by Willie Collum after a VAR check, as he tussled with Ryan Kent in a 3-1 Premiership defeat for his Kilmarnock side versus Rangers. Then Greg Taylor was penalised for a handball when Alex Grieve flicked the ball onto his arm, although it mattered little in the end with Ange Postecoglou's champions swatting St Mirren aside 5-1.
Regardless, Conroy tells Grosvenor Sport that both calls by VAR and referees Collum plus David Dickinson were farcical, and that a return to his time in the middle is needed. He explained: "In a sane world, the real world, not in a million years is that a penalty (Alebiosu's incident). Never, ever. There’s no intent, he had no idea where the ball was. It hit him in that armpit zone where it’s already a borderline between a handball or not.
