Rangers has had a disaster this weekend, a chance to return to the top of the table after Rangers slipped up at home has been blown and Philippe Clement continues to look calmness personified – even in the face of adversity.
The Gers boss could easily have gone on a rant about some of the officiating at Ibrox, especialy Dan Casey not receiving a red card, but instead questioned the disparicy between that call and ones his own squad have been victims of.
On the other hand, Brendan Rodgers went straight for John Beaton, who was on VAR duty not the man making the on-field decisions, and in the process completely forgot about a red-card verdict he had given just a few weeks ago – it’s advantage Rangers as the wheels come off at Parkhead once again.
Brendan Rodgers is feeling the heat from Rangers
When Toyosi Olusanya saw red for St Mirren in the last fixture before the winter break he could have felt a little aggrieved, because he made a genuine attempt for the ball, however, we all know that is irrelevant nowadays.
Player safety is paramount and endangering an opponent almost always ends up in the offender receiving their marching orders.
Rodgers, rightly, agreed with the sending off, explaining why it is a red card:
“The guy’s not meaning to do it, but of course if you’re taking a stud in the eye, it’s dangerous play. It was clearly a red card.”
Compare and contrast with his post-match rant at the weekend:
“The first incident – if you put a still on that of course it looks dangerous but that’s not the reality of the move.
“There’s no force there, the ball’s popped up, okay it’s a booking. That was really disappointing to go down to ten men with that.”
Oh, so now there needs to be force too?
A foot 6ft off the ground in a players face isn’t dangerous enough?
Olusanya was stretching for a ball about 2ft off the deck and he was sent off why is this any different?
“The reality of the move.”
Where do you start with this too?
The still image shows Yang Hyun-jun with his foot in Alex Cochrane’s face, I’m not really sure if Don Robertson needs any more evidence than that.
The biggest scandal is that he didn’t give a red card in the first place.
It’s the latest indication that Brendan Rodgers simply isn’t coping with the pressure of Rangers title challenge and that Philippe Clement just has to keep doing what he is doing to ramp it up.
