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·5 December 2021

Video: Reckless Butcher and the Referee’s Honest Mistake

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Dundee United’s hardman Calum Butcher was on the bench for Dundee United today having just returned from his ban after getting a red card against Aberdeen. The Englishman was only on the park a few minutes when his sliding tackle on David Turnbull with both feet off the ground caught the Celtic midfielder’s shin. High, wild, reckless and dangerous. A leg breaking challenge that Sky Sports reviewed and reckoned if VAR had been iin play the referee would have issued a red card rather than a yellow.

We await the referee referee’s boss appearing in BBC Sportsound shortly to call out the poor refereeing decisions today which included a handful of wrongly called offside decisions mostly going against Celtic.

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