Chris Sutton absolutely nails it as Celtic hero decries ‘very dangerous’ Rangers request
Ex-Celtic striker Chris Sutton has rightfully slammed Rangers for their alleged request asking referee Willie Collum not to officiate in any of their games in the future.
The Ibrox club were incensed after their Glasgow derby defeat to Celtic last weekend, as Brendan Rodgers ended Philippe Clement’s unbeaten start as Rangers manager.
They feel Alistair Johnston should have been penalised for a handball and thus be awarded a penalty. However, VAR on the day Collum did not feel a clear and obvious error was made by on-field referee Nick Walsh and thus play continued.
Regardless, it was later confirmed Abdallah Sima was offside in the build-up to the ‘handball’ incident so the
penalty that the Rangers were yelling for would have been deemed invalid in any case.
However, this did not deter Rangers from releasing distracting remarks in which they expressed dissatisfaction about the non-penalty award and the absence of any mention of an offside check in the VAR audio, which the Govan hierarchy obtained access to in private following a request to the SFA to make public.
Rangers and the SFA are currently engaged in combat. So much so that they allegedly asked Collum to stop officiating Rangers games going forward at their meeting with the governing body.
In response to that request, which was first made public by the team’s media partner Hand & Heart, Sutton has written in his weekly Daily Record column and called out Rangers for threatening to establish a