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15 Feb 2026 23:20:45.
Pick a stat, dude. They are all the exact same. Why I have taken the opinion I have. I see it with my own eyes, and the numbers are consistent.
That referee today is particularly bad. Every time he refs at Ibrox, he looks like he is trying to break a record. He was close today, equalling his best of 17 freekicks against us.
15 Feb 2026 23:21:08
Means nothing, mate. They might be fair, give or take a few.
By the above table, if there is a conspiracy, then the refs must favour Hibs and Motherwell too.
Also, Hearts in 6th place managed to top the league despite the conspiracy against everyone but Celtic.
15 Feb 2026 23:23:43
Wow, that is staggering. Seventeen minutes difference between all the rest of the league, so all roughly the same, and Celtic have an extra hour on top of that?
16 Feb 2026 00:49:18
Put a different way, Celtic get 8 minutes per game extra, while the rest of the league are between 4.8 and 5.1 minutes.
Celtic have taken 15 points in extra time this season. 9 of those points came in the 95th minute or later.
16 Feb 2026 01:14:16
Kind of missing the point re Hearts. Maybe they haven't needed to score late on in a lot of the matches.
16 Feb 2026 01:24:48
Surely Celtic don't have an hour more in 26 games than we do in 27?
That would be an avg of 2:30 more per game than us. Not a chance.
16 Feb 2026 02:25:26
Oh my dog.
1 hour more plus 1 red card in nearly 2 years.
Who would have thought it?
Everyone that is fair-minded, that's who.
16 Feb 2026 07:16:54
My God, we sound like them. It's actually embarrassing, seriously. 10 subs, that's 30 seconds each, so that's 5 minutes. Thomson and Jukes were also injured, that time added. Also, let's not be like them, please.
16 Feb 2026 07:29:05
Exactly, Ryan. Has our support turned into them? Embarrassing.
16 Feb 2026 07:49:03
So the time added on is only for Celtic and not for the team they are playing then? Absolute paranoid nonsense.
16 Feb 2026 07:49:51
My research shows that East End Mob coaches spend longer treating injuries than all other clubs.
16 Feb 2026 07:57:34
Ryan and John, fair point regarding yesterday, but over the course of the season it is clear, for some reason, conspiracy or not, their games are being refereed differently. Given football games last the same amount of time, and are all susceptible to injuries and subs, u would expect there to be little difference across the table. That is proved by the very small differences among all other 11 teams.
To have one team stand out with such an enormous gap from the rest at least raises eyebrows. Perhaps it's the high-profile TV games or media scrutiny that means refs give more time to them than all others; I don't know, but there's no logical reason one team should play that much more over a season than anyone else. And, they have been able to take advantage of the opportunity given them.
16 Feb 2026 08:05:50
Ryan, it's 30 seconds per stop of play, not per sub. So, the ten subs didn't happen at separate times, and three happened at half time, which wouldn't count as the game was already stopped.
16 Feb 2026 08:46:33
I'd be more concerned about the Kilmarnock defender, who didn't even attempt to play the ball clear, resulting in a corner kick for them near the death.
16 Feb 2026 08:57:32
Ryan, Celtic made 3 subs at half time, can't add time on for that.
16 Feb 2026 09:08:53
I get your point about yesterday, Ryan, but that's a one-off occasion.
But the stats suggest that's happening every game for them, but no one else in the league. ?
To merely point out such a huge statistical difference isn't turning on them, as you have suggested.
16 Feb 2026 09:13:44
Laudrup, not sure where u found this, but it would be interesting to know if there are similar outstanding disparities in other leagues. Perhaps one for the stats guys on here for comparison?
16 Feb 2026 09:30:50
Even paranoids can have enemies. Paranoid or not, bouncy, that still gives no explanation as to why one team is playing far more than any other team in the league. Calling folk paranoid or embarrassing doesn't actually answer the question.
Unlike other conspiracies, which can be argued, like attacking teams get more pens or offsides, etc. etc., there's no logic behind added time being consistently far more for one team than others.
16 Feb 2026 09:36:24
Let's get our excuses in early. Mb we would score in added time if we did not try to hold on to a point again then, men.
16 Feb 2026 09:55:00
Graeme, if it happens to them, it happens to the team they are playing as well. Both teams have the chance to score in time added on.
16 Feb 2026 10:10:23
I just got sent it and posted it here to the guys saying it's embarrassing. No, it's not. It's just showing a stat. On the other hand, if that was us top of that table, referees' lives wouldn't be worth living, you know that.
16 Feb 2026 10:31:55
Between this and the 'fouls per caution' stat, they are definitely an outlier in both metrics.
Just 2 stats that point towards them being refereed to a different standard.
Can't, for the life of me, understand why the rest of the league doesn't make more of an issue of this.
They all seem quite happy to let it happen.
Now, just imagine these stats pointed favourably to us. All hell would break loose in the media.
16 Feb 2026 10:33:25
John, you wouldn't call it embarrassing if Celtic nicked a 97th-minute draw against us at Ibrox if there should have been less added.
16 Feb 2026 10:49:48
I was looking forward to everybody being happy after a result that I reckon makes us definite favourites for the league, but no, another conspiracy theory.
16 Feb 2026 10:57:22
Celtic score goals in injury time regularly, so clearly more injury time will be added. I don't like praising them in any way, but fighting to the death can only be praised.
16 Feb 2026 11:49:25
So what do we do here? Does anyone want to start a watch and keep track of how many times they or the other team have players being treated, or how long the ref added on due to time wasting?
You need to add context to stats. You can't just say they always get longer, or that added time is extended until they score the winner, without some other facts.
If you can argue that there was no time wasting and have added up all the injury treatment time, and they are still way off the minutes, then maybe, just maybe, you have a point. Until then, these stats mean absolutely nothing.
16 Feb 2026 11:56:30
Not really, JFM, the fitter team with more quality would have an advantage over lesser teams, pretty obvious, mate.
16 Feb 2026 11:58:47
60 minutes seems a lot when viewed this way, however, this is over 26 games, which makes it an extra 2.3 minutes per game versus other teams. It also says this includes half time and full time, so, again, dividing by 2 makes it 1 minute extra per half.
Hardly a "huge" anomaly when broken down per game.
I think it is being raised because Celtic have scored late on in the last few games, as this has never been mentioned before. Sounds like some people are looking for things that are not there.
16 Feb 2026 12:52:14
Mystar, have Celtic scored that many in added time to account for an extra hour of football? Mojo, yes, only because it was pointed out, but the figures are quite staggering. Over a season, all the other clubs are at a similar level of time added, but only one is so far ahead.
It's averaging out at around 3 minutes more than any other team? Conspiracies or not, I still haven't seen any reasonable explanation for it.
16 Feb 2026 13:04:51
It's a valid stat. Not so much that they get so much extra time than Rangers, more that they get so much more time than everybody else; it's not even close. That is the equivalent of more than two extra games they have had over the season. I'm surprised their players aren't doing a Rodri and moaning about it. Taking the bias out of it, I've watched games at Ibrox when there have been 10 subs used and the ref has given 2 or 3 minutes, and it's usually when we are winning by a few.
It's almost like he is showing mercy, or decided there is no point playing on. I think that the QP game recently had no extra time. It doesn't matter, but surely all games should be refereed the same regardless of the score.
16 Feb 2026 13:08:43
Mr Mojo, I agree, mate.
16 Feb 2026 13:08:47
Dado, we would have the same time to score a winner.
16 Feb 2026 13:27:21
Numbers don't lie, guys. As football fans, our eyes can lie. We do tend to see things we want to see.
That does not account for Celtic being several standard deviations from the norm across almost all refereeing statistics, across multiple seasons. That's not a conspiracy. It's statistically anomalous.
16 Feb 2026 13:46:55
Kasier, can't see that, mate.
16 Feb 2026 14:16:37
Should you guys not just be delighted you have won an important game and closed the gap on Hearts!
Celtic scoring in added time just shows how badly we are struggling to put teams away, and does not bode well for the run in.
A few weeks ago it was Celtic never get a red card, now it is minutes added on. Celtic then get a red card after Boyd kept calling it out, maybe after his and Neil McCann's "unbiased" comments yesterday the refs won't add any time on in Celtic games, then it will be something else.
Oh, sorry, forgot about the fouls per booking!
I think it is fair to say the paranoia runs deep on both sides, and will get worse as the league goes on. Every decision will be analysed.
Somehow I can see all the refs in Scotland agreeing to add on more time to allow Celtic to win games they are playing poor in. Here is another way to look at it: maybe they see how bad Celtic are playing in games, and are adding on the time hoping the opposition score!
We can all flip the narrative to suit our agendas!
16 Feb 2026 14:51:39
There's a margin of 17 minutes between the rest of the league, then it jumps to 81 minutes. If that doesn't make u stop and ask why, fair dos, but can certainly understand some asking the question. Nothing embarrassing about that.
16 Feb 2026 15:28:18
Mr Mojo, that's the only thing I'm taking on. They struggle beating clubs at the lower end of the league. I can remember being at a Falkirk game against Celtic recently and just knew there was going to be a struggle for Celtic to win games.
Falkirk played them off the park that game, and how Falkirk never scored at least a couple was really fortunate for Celtic that game.
16 Feb 2026 15:43:13
Absolutely delighted how things are going, Mojo, but at the same time enjoy a good debate, and with staggering stats like that I'll always ask Qs too. U sound pretty negative too after a comeback win, so could ask you the same question about being happy closing the gap.
Some would say winning ugly is the mark of champions, so it depends on your point of view. It's going to be an exciting finish anyways, mate, whatever happens.
16 Feb 2026 16:14:02
I am downbeat because, although we closed the gap, the football has been terrible against the worst teams in the league, and we can't just keep scraping by.
I am not overall impressed with some of the January loans, so that adds to the negativity.
We are in the hunt, and if we win the game in hand we could go top, but we need to improve. Right now, and it pains me to say it, I see it finishing Rangers first, Celtic second, Hearts third, but believe me, I hope I am wrong!
16 Feb 2026 16:37:05
May your negativity only be forced to increase, Mojo, mate. ? ?