Purposeful Officers ‘ploy’ works big time as Michael Stewart impacts ‘lethargic’ Aberdeen and Hearts on BBC Sportscene

The BBC savant responded live on Sportscene on 26 November after Connor Goldson’s shirt was pulled to give the Light Blues a stoppage-time punishment in the 1-1 draw at Pittodrie, in spite of the fact that he reprimanded the protector’s “dramatic” fall after Stefan Gartenmann had given up.

Barry Robson was incensed that the Wears man had been closed off by Sam Lammers during the episode and keeping in mind that both Stewart and Kenny Mill operator concurred he had been, with the previous recommending it is a conscious “ploy” from the Light Blues, they faulted the safeguard for committing the main encroachment.
Mill operator said (7.33pm): “Players these days simply need to acknowledge you can’t pull another player’s shirt like that… it’s about to get pulled up.

“I can comprehend what Barry’s talking about Lammers, you can see him here moving in the method of Gartenmann. He’s not excessively forceful yet the pulling’s now begun and, guess what? It’s a punishment, that’s all there is to it, you can’t pull off that nowadays.”

Stewart added: “They’re clearly taking a gander at the way that Lammers has ventured across to hinder him, yet luckily for Officers the draw happens not long before the step and the block happens.
“The draw doesn’t send Connor Goldson down, that is dramatic, that must be said… It’s fringe for me yet I think your dissatisfaction must be with the shielding since, in such a case that Goldson takes off and gets a free header you realize that VAR will be seeing it… you’ll get the free kick for that.

“When you see the shirt leaving away from the body like that you’re running a significant gamble of offering an extra shot. It falls into a similar classification as what occurred at Ibrox with Hearts, obviously Officers are chipping away at that as a ploy…

“Hearts and Aberdeen have fallen into the snare big time there, on two events, and on the two events it’s simply apathetic safeguarding.”