NOWHERE TO GO
My son knew it was a penalty from a million miles away but Rangers can’t go down Celtic route in VAR row says McCoist.
He’s mentioned a number of situations that Gers fans believe have gone against them. ALLY McCOIST believes Rangers have exhausted their appeals about the contentious non-penalty award against Celtic in Sunday’s Premier Sports Cup final. SFA referee chief Willie Collum has agreed that the officiating panel should have awarded a penalty kick after Liam Scales was seen pulling Vaclav Cerny just inside the area during extra time.
The burden for that falls more on VAR officials Alan Muir and Frank Connor than match referee John Beaton, who only had one look at it, especially since the association published recordings of what Collu calls a ‘awful’ occurrence. McCoist was at the game with his sons, and he has said that his oldest son, Argyll, understood it was a penalty right away, despite watching from the Rangers end. He told the Daily Record: “I was up the Rangers end and down the other end, but big Argyll (McCoist’s son) told me it was a penalty.
“He [Argyll] was a million miles away and I said with the greatest respect the referee is 15 yards away.
I still do not blame the referee at all. He had a good game. But here’s the problem: you can accept the referee’s mistake. Of course, we’ll complain about it; we always do, but we can’t accept that individuals are paid to do a job and then watch it seven, eight, or nine times and get it utterly wrong. “This is my issue with VAR.” The Ibrox veteran feels that new Gers CEO Patrick Stewart is correct in saying that they should not follow Celtic’s lead by publicly questioning officials’ honesty. At last year’s AGM, Chief Executive Michael Nicholson famously joked about ‘Penalty Rangers’.
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