Plenty has already been said about Mohamed Diomande’s Rangers red card in the aftermath of the win over Dundee United.
Gers fans at the time couldn’t understand what their player had been sent off for and having watched it back many times, the puzzlement remains.
Diomande clashed with Kevin Holt but it was the latter who was the main protagonist, angrily pushing the midfielder away. His arms certainly moved as he was pushed, but not in a deliberate motion towards the opponent.
Nick Walsh had a decent view of it first time but was given the chance to have a closer one, and take his time to see several replays, but amazingly still stayed with the decision to send him off.
Rangers hero Kris Boyd took aim at the official for his stubbornness and refusal to admit that he was wrong.
That sparked an argument with Chris Sutton who usurpingly tried to claim it was the right call.
Philippe Clement vowed that Rangers will appeal the suspension as it was his player that was ‘attacked’ in his view.
But two former refs say that, while it wasn’t worthy of a sending off, the appeal will fail because the SFA will protect their official.
However, we told how Rangers have a precedent to follow with a decision Celtic were let off with only weeks ago.
Now, Ally McCoist has had his say.
McCoist slams ‘worst decision ever’ against Rangers
The Ibrox legend was aghast at just how Walsh arrived at his conclusion, even after watching it again on the VAR screen.
Much has been made down south of a call given against Arsenal but he reckons it is even worse than that.
And Coisty says it is ‘inexcusable’ that the ref decided to double down and stick to his guns.
Speaking on talkSPORT, he said: “Jeff, you haven’t seen the Rangers sending off, have you? Oh my goodness, it is the worst decision, it is absolutely unbelievable how the referee thinks it is a red.
“Here is one for you, I actually think it is worse than the Arsenal one. The Arsenal one was a howler.
“It baffles me, you are sitting watching it as a football fan, and you’re thinking ‘what is going through the referee’s mind there?’
“When VAR has basically said ‘you’ve made a wee mistake here, effectively’. You know that is what they are telling you, ‘come over and have a look at this’. He goes over and doubles down on it, I just think it is inexcusable. I really do.”
What Philippe Clement said about Diomande red
”I’ve saw it back now because I knew this question was coming,” Clement told Sky Sports.
”I totally don’t understand. We’re going to appeal it also as a club.
”The VAR was clearly also in that opinion otherwise they don’t ask the referee to come to the screen.
”OK, my opinion is clearly it’s totally not a red card.
”If that’s a red card then every game there will be three, four, five red cards and I think my player gets attacked in that moment.
”He gets pushed and he has small reaction with his hand without even touching the opponent.
”They can have both maximum yellow but giving a red card for that, yeah, that’s incredible.”
