MJC

That was a stonewall penalty. Ox was clumsy in the challenge and clearly caught the Celtic player. It wasn’t even remotely the same as the incident with Butland and Watt today.

Apart from when they (correctly) upheld our first goal after VAR had flagged a potential handball? If they were really hell bent on giving them every advantage then why didn’t they just give that as a deliberate handball?? I know it wasn’t but surely if a set of officials were hell bent on giving them every advantage then they would have ruled that goal out??? Or so I would have thought?

Goalkeepers always do in that scenario. They are a protected species.

I would have taken the draw before the game but I’m just fucking scunnered with that. 2-0 up at half time and predictably we let them back into it. We have the ball in the net two more times and neither count (correctly, I might add, going by the rules of the game and VAR). As ever our age old Achilles heal of being 2-0 ahead bites us. I am genuinely more comfortable with a one goal lead than a two goal one because we almost always switch off and gift the opposition a goal and a way back into it.

It’s supposed to correct “clear and obvious errors” by onfield officials. The decision to rule out the second one patently wasn’t a “clear and obvious error”.

Without VAR the first ‘3rd’ would have been disallowed as Watt’s arm was us as he jumped with the goalkeeper as they always get the benefit of the doubt there. However the second ‘3rd’ would probably have stood because there wouldn’t have been a ‘forensic’ examination to find a body part that was offside going by the rules. It’s shite either way.

Both decisions were technically “correct” going by the rule book. And like I said earlier, Kevin Clancy isn’t a Rangers fan.

Just get VAR to fuck. It’s seriously ruining the game. You have to basically second guess whether to celebrate every goal because a players elbow or big toe might be ‘offside’. Jobsworth stuff

Goalkeeper always gets the benefit of the doubt in that scenario. Watt’s hand was up and that gave him the excuse to blow for the foul. So anyone starting mumping about bias and ‘Masonic’ referees can just sit back down. Plus I very, VERY much doubt that Kevin Clancy is a Rangers fan.

There you go. Only one winner now.

That’s the crucial thing. For as long as I can remember we have been hopeless at managing 2-0 leads. If we want to win this this we absolutely cannot concede early in the second half.

We need to break the habit of a lifetime here and NOT concede the next goal when 2-0 up.

Hopefully we learn our lessons from the Semi Final here now we’re 1-0 up!!

Rangers do not lose two league games back to back against ‘provincial’ sides and certainly not when we’re the next side they’re playing after a loss. 0-1 snooze fest with them scoring a shitey deflected goal.

That’s as clear a penalty as you’ll ever see I’m afraid. Ox nowhere near the ball and wiped their player out, it was always going to be given.

Alex McLeish in 1997, albeit different seasons. Won 2-0 at Ibrox in the May and won at Parkhead by the same scoreline in November.

I think Christmas is commercialised shite personally. But Happy Birthday Jesus

We’ve drawn the last two games at Parkhead and we tend not to get hammered there against them like we do at Fir Park these days. That said a result here is unlikely and a clean sheet is simply not going to happen. I’ll opt for the optimistic outlook and predict another 1-1 draw.

Only way to describe that is ‘frustrating’.

Watt back in for Tawanda. Nicholson out due to illness.

0-0

They were but likewise delighted they got none. And beating Dundee Utd will never not be enjoyable, arrogant chumps that they are.

Games like that are great when we win. Obviously there were/are issues with our defending which was horrific for two of the three goals we conceded today. And if we’re being honest we were second best for the entire second half where we rode our luck especially with Moult hitting the bar seconds before Sparrow’s fine finish for the 4th. But goals win games and we scored four and they scored three and that’s the only thing that matters at the end of the day.

I don’t mind happy clappers as long as we win. Had we drawn that 3-3 or 4-4 and the happy clappers were ‘celebrating’ it because it was a “great spectacle” and all that it would have been a different story. Big leap to the left! YAAAAAASSSSS! Big leap to the right! YAAAASSSSSS! We lost 5-6 or drew 6-6 but what a spectacle! YAAAAAASSSSSS! But today we won and that’s the most important thing.

I’m pleased we won. Aren’t you?