Watch seething Peter Houston give it full blast in Falkirk TV interview
After an explosive six minute interview the SFA are bound to hit the Falkirk boss with a number of charges as he let loose with his feelings on the way his club had been treated at Ibrox.
In his general media conference Houston had claimed that the decisive incident in the match ‘was never a free-kick in a month of Sundays’ and that McKendrick had come under undue influence from the Sevco management team.
Speaking to Falkirk TV, in an interview carried on the club website and You Tube channel, Houston went much further.
“Absolutely a poor decision, the poorest decision I’ve seen for years,” the Falkirk boss opened the interview with. In 2008 Houston was Craig Levein’s assistant at Dundee United when they were on the wrong end of a Mike McCurry masterclass at Ibrox as Walter Smith’s side chased an unprecedented quadrangle.
“I’ve been in to see the referee, he said that Tom Taiwo won the ball but continued through the Rangers player- absolute nonsense,” Houston added. “Instead of a Falkirk foul he’s gave a Rangers foul and for me that’s poor refereeing.
“There’s a tackle in the first minute on Craig Sibald which in any walk of football, anywhere in football is at least a yellow card. Today the referee deemed that as a tackle that didn’t merit anything other than a foul for us. If that had been a Falkirk player I’m convinced that our player would have been booked in the first minute.”
Responding to the questioning of the Falkirk TV presenter asking about the influence of the Ibrox management team Houston added: “They were telling him that he had given them nothing from the game, when a referee hears that it can influence them in some ways. I think it influenced him today, he gave them something they shouldn’t have got.
“When you come here you have to have strong officials, when you don’t have that then that’s what can happen.”
Landing the killer blow Houston added: “It’s Ibrox we’re at Lewis (the Falkirk TV presenter). Nothing like that happens here, it’s the wee team, the wee diddy team that gets pulled up for things like that.
“I’ll go and speak to them (the SFA) and if it means a fine it’s a fine. I just felt so hard done by today, and I still feel hard done by. I’m raging, I’m seething inside. The fact that the referee has cost us the match. It’s as simple as that.”