As regulars to Ibrox Noise know, we don’t talk about Celtic a great deal. We know they’re there, we can smell them, and in general we acknowledge that a team in green play at a horrible-looking midden in Glasgow’s east end.
However articles about them are not our forte. We are a Rangers site and that’s our focus.
But we couldn’t help giggling at the outraged reaction by them to VAR with Austin Trusty’s red card failing an appeal before Rangers versus Celtic.
Benefits
Celtic, who have had more than their fair share of benefits from Scottish officiating, had the absolute temerity to whine about a decision going against them!
Now, this is not a paranoid article from a Rangers site complaining the refs are against our club. No, Ibrox Noise is a bit more balanced than that.
Our take has always been that if you employ part-time refs and don’t train them properly, part-time halfwits is what you get.
Our referees are just low quality, low standard, and it’s the same refs on the pitch as on VAR.
Gall
But the gall to whine at the same referees who hadn’t given Celtic a single red card in over 80 matches was, to our eyes, very brass neckery.
Martin O’Neill knows what he’s doing. He’s playing the game, trying to pressure the refs before Sunday in a hostile cauldron of Ibrox. He’s trying to put heat on them, highlighting an injustice against his club, therefore leaning on the man in the middle and VAR pre-Govan.
But nevertheless, the utter bare-facedness is rather hilarious, the very notion that a referee would send off a Celtic player.
Celtic have had it all their way for a very long time, and this season that’s not been the case.
In truth, both sets of Old Firm fans believe the refs are against them. It’s always been the case.
Entitlement
But MON’s comments about that one really do scream of desperation, entitlement and manipulation.
Rangers will very much have to be on their watch this Sunday. Unless our manager Danny Rohl comes out with a similar kind of comment, the refs will feel some pressure to ‘prove’ they’re not biased against Celtic.
Rohl would do well do make a little comment about refs, if maybe a slightly less paranoid and ridiculous one than his Celtic counterpart.
Refs shouldn’t decide matches like Rangers versus Celtic, and Sunday should be no exception to that.