{"id":431110,"date":"2025-09-17T12:06:40","date_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431110\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T12:06:40","modified_gmt":"2025-09-17T12:06:40","slug":"stuart-kettlewell-makes-celtic-penalty-u-turn-as-kilmarnock-boss-warns-precedent-is-now-set","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/431110\/","title":{"rendered":"Stuart Kettlewell makes Celtic penalty U-turn as Kilmarnock boss warns precedent is now set"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kettlewell didn\u2019t see the point in calling the SFA refs chief to get the same reasoning he’s already had in the aftermath of SundayStuart Kettlewell<\/p>\n

Kilmarnock boss Stuart Kettlewell has accepted the SFA’s explanation as to why Celtic<\/a> were awarded a last gasp penalty agianst them on Sunday, but insists it’s now set a precedent for future incidents.<\/p>\n

James Forrest’s shot was deflected off Robbie Deas’ foot on to Lewis Mayo’s arm<\/a>. Ref John Beaton was called to the pitch side monitor by the VAR and pointed to the spot.<\/p>\n

Celts new boy Kelechi Iheanacho stepped up and scored to snatch all three points and keep the champions at the top of the table alongside Hearts.<\/p>\n

The SFA<\/a> moved to clarify the call after the game, releasing an explanation that read: “The penalty was awarded for handball by the Kilmarnock defender whose arm is in an unnatural position.<\/p>\n

“A deflection doesn\u2019t always negate a handball offence. He doesn\u2019t know where ball is going and his arm is up in an unnatural position to block a shot.”<\/p>\n

And it seems that Kettlewell<\/a> has accepted that, provided spot kicks are given in similar scenarios going forward.<\/p>\n

“There has to be a consistency in decision making within the games,” he said. “I know everything’s not identical, I know everything is not exactly as that one was.<\/p>\n

Lewis Mayo of Kilmarnock handles the ball(Image: Stuart Wallace\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

“But when you go and try to block the ball with your foot and not your upper body – we’ve all seen the ones when you try with your body and your hand is in an unnatural position – if that ricochets up off somebody’s foot from half a yard, then I would expect them to be given from a yard or further.<\/p>\n

“I thought that was an extreme case. Really, really unfortunate that it comes off the hand. Not going in the goal, I think we can all see that the ball is not heading towards the goal.<\/p>\n

“I’m somebody that likes clarity, I’m somebody that likes consistency, same as everybody else. I have a lot of conversations with a lot of different people within Scottish football – press, media, coaching staff, players, punters – people with that vested interest in Scottish football, and I don’t think we want to see that.<\/p>\n

“But I think we have set a precedent on Sunday on what will be given as a penalty.”<\/p>\n

When asked why he didn’t seek clarity from refs boss Willie Collum, Kettlewell replied: “You’re asking why I didn’t seek clarity. Becasue there’s a chain of decisions and thought processes and statements that have told us that can be given as a penalty.<\/p>\n

“So what clarity would I want? From checking VAR, from the look at the screen and from the statement afterwards, that’s given me my answer who why would I go back over that again?”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Kettlewell didn\u2019t see the point in calling the SFA refs chief to get the same reasoning he’s already…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":431111,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4100],"tags":[2628,94,26957,71563,33534,1638,79,146720,16,15,16263,26956],"class_list":{"0":"post-431110","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-celtic-fc","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-james-forrest","11":"tag-kilmarnock-fc","12":"tag-scottish-football-association","13":"tag-scottish-premiership","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-stuart-kettlewell","16":"tag-uk","17":"tag-united-kingdom","18":"tag-var","19":"tag-willie-collum"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115219554996338304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=431110"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/431110\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/431111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=431110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=431110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=431110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}