In all honesty I have no idea where to start with this blog. After watching Dundee Utd v Hibs I am under no illusions who is the better team (Hibs – natch) but what a game. What a refereeing disaster.
I’ll admit to nerves going into this game. Hibs Cup performances of late have been off the park but our leagues games have not been great. Scrappy, perhaps.
The hope was that Hibs would channel their inner cup into the league on Friday evening and, to be fair, they did. Cannot argue with that. Hibs ran out at Tannadice with a win in mind. Team selection was perfect, for me, and good that Darren McGregor was back in there after his cup suspension last weekend.
Referee Don Robertson started off well but finally lost it. He started off the game more or less good but as it got more aggressive he lost control. He was let down by his assistants as well, which doesn’t help. He booked David Gray after missing a blatant yellow on Grant Holt seconds before. Despite being up with play! He should have given a red card to Dundee United’s Mark Durnan for an elbow to David Gray’s face but despite looking straight at it he failed to pick up on it, and neither did his assistant. Most officials know that David Gray doesn’t go down easily and for him to have travelled before going down says a lot. In my very humble opinion that was a straight red.
It wasn’t a great performance from Hibs but it was enough. The gap has opened but we still can’t be complacent because…well, because we are Hibs. We don’t do easy. The word Easy doesn’t exist at Hibs or East Mains. It’s the way it is. We laaav the challenge really.
