Chris Sutton is amazed by the petition about ‘anti-Rangers refereeing’.
Saturday’s defeat from Hibs has conveniently turned the spotlight onto Neil Lennon and John Beaton rather than the collapse of Pedro Caixinha’s sides.
An appeal will be going in to the SFA despite Ryan Jack grabbing one player by the neck and head-butt another with the incident triggering a petition to investigate refereeing in Scotland.
Ryan Jack red card was an awful decision????But this petition for anti-Rangers refereeing?They’ll be one for Neil Lennon cheering a goal next..
— Chris Sutton (@chris_sutton73) August 14, 2017
Beaton is no stranger to controversy with two of his most infamous games being in cup ties at Ibrox.
In 2014 he allowed Bilel Mohsni to use his arms to bundle the ball and the Albion Rovers goalkeeper into the net to earn Ally McCoist’s side a replay.
Earlier this year Joey Garner was able to rake his studs across Dougie Imrie’s hip and escape with a yellow card before going on to score a hat-trick against Hamilton Accies.
On the opening day of last season Beaton awarded Hearts a penalty against Celtic with Jamie Walker getting a retrospective two match ban for the incident.