Watching the Rangers game to day told me one thing. That the Ibrox club and the referees will do anything to keep up with Celtic in the title race.
At every turn they were looking for a penalty and at ever turn VAR checked for one.
And whilst the match day referee denied the Ibrox a penalty in the first few minutes of the Kilmarnock game, it didn’t take long till another pattern of assistance came along to help them on their way.
Blocking a shot on the goal line, a Kilmarnock defender got the ball played off his hand by Cyril Dessers and the ensuing VAR check awarded them a penalty and a bizarre red card.
And as the Kilmarnock players protested, Kenny Miller actually said what he thought about the decision during the match day commentary.
The former Rangers player said that whilst he agreed with yet another penalty award, he felt the red card shown to Joe Wright was ‘very harsh’.
Which, of course, it was. The Killie defender couldn’t do anything about it and for the Ayrshire club to get the penalty and the double whammy of a man being sent off effectively killed the game off. You can view the handball here.
And didn’t he just upset the Ibrox hordes.
Rangers fans have Kenny Miller trending
As the enormity of what Miller said sunk in, the Rangers fans were fuming and they turned nasty on thier former hero:
Ave had to mute the coms Kenny miller is a complete pr–k like his pal barry loves to slag us off for anything
— markrfc🇬🇧 (@mbrfc86) May 5, 2024
Tell ye one thing .. never really heard him like this but Kenny Miller is a fu–ing walloper. He's still making money off us by having nights with fans etc but he has been so anti rangers today its almost unbeleivable f–king 🤡
— Adam Dunn (@AdamDunn1872) May 5, 2024
Does Kenny miller know that if it’s a handball keeping the ball out of the net it’s a red card.
— Rangers Central (@RangersCentraI) May 5, 2024
There’s no such thing as a harsh red card when it comes to that situation. What is he on
Someone want to let Kenny Miller know just because he feels it’s harsh doesn’t mean the refs can just ignore the rules of the game? Can we get pundits who actually analyse things using the facts rather than what they feel?
— BarcaBear (@BarcaBear92) May 5, 2024
That’s quite the rant by the angry bears and one I’m sure they forget when Miller is slabbering his usual pro-Sevco guff on the Scottish airwaves.
And a similar incident at Celtic Park against st. Johnston. No penalty no card. Amazing. Yes refs do ignore the rules.
Strangely when Celtic played Ross County, I think, Maeda hit a shot from point blank range against a defender on the line.
Not only was the layer not sent off, we didn’t get the penalty either.
The same peeple telling us now that it is the letter of the law were saying then that it would have been harsh.
Strange…….. or perhaps not.
If a decision like that had been denied Celtic you, like me, would be screaming from the rooftops. Stonewall penalty and red card, the ball was net bound a goal scoring opportunity denied. I’ve been going to Celtic Park since 1950 before you start suggesting I’m a fan of Rangers 2012. Stop the paranoia.