Well, it now seems that the Rangers’ referee furore has reached the corridors of Westminster after MP, Ian Blackford, was left fuming with the match officials in the Ibrox club’s Scottish Cup win against Hibs last night.
Rangers’ 2-0 win was helped along after Steven McLean sent off Nathan Moria-Welsh and Jordan Obita at Easter Road last night. It’s not the first time McLean has been involved in some favourable shocking Ibrox decisions.
Here at Born Celtic, we have been vocal in reporting on the Pattern of Assistance the Ibrox seem to get from the match officials and it seems that this has now reached the corridors of Parliament after Ian Blackford sent out a message after watching his Hibs side crash out of the Scottish Cup.
The fact it’s taken Hibs to be eliminated from the Scottish Cup for someone to speak up really is something.
The Celtic fans have been vocal in the amount of favourable decisions Rangers seem to get for years now.
We even told how Craig Levein’s rant back in 2008 when he was the Dundee United manager is even more pertinent now than it was 16 years ago.
Will anything change off the back of this rant from Blackford? It’s really doubtful. The SFA have circled the wagons around their officials. Especially after what Brendan Rodgers has said this week.
The Celtic manager is still fuming about the Tynecastle furore and now faces an SFA charge later this month.
He may well miss the Ibrox fixture in April but is certain, and I predicted this over the weekend, is that Rangers will continue to benefit from these decisions to the detriment of other clubs and until every SPFL manager speaks out, not just Blackford, then nothing will ever change in the Scottish game.
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