Britain Football Soccer - Celtic v Rangers - Scottish Cup Semi Final - Hampden Park, Glasgow, Scotland - 23/4/17 Rangers' Kenny Miller reacts Action Images via Reuters / Craig Brough Livepic
Kenny Miller has gone off message by describing Todd Cantwell falling like a sack of potatoes against Motherwell on Saturday.
That fall was good enough for Nick Walsh, refereeing the Ibrox side for the eight time this season, to reach for a second yellow card to reduce Motherwell to 10 men to effectively kill off the match.
Since being sacked by Huddersfield Miller has slipped back into the media saddle with a rota of appearances across Radio Clyde, Go Radio, Open Goal, Radio Scotland, Sportscene and Sky Sports sharing his thoughts.
Before the Scottish Cup tie with Raith Rovers he picked up an appearance fee from New Edmiston House even though he departed the club under a cloud after a heated exchange with Graeme Murty after being left out of a 4-0 Hampden hammering from Celtic.
Listening in to Super Scoreboard last night the Daily Record reports Miller saying:
Firstly, you can’t say one guy is going to move the exact same as the other, but the Slattery one – I have only seen it once, I’ve seen it live. I thought he was trying to put his arm up, like every footballer does to protect the ball from the pressure of Todd Cantwell.
Cantwell goes down like a sack of potatoes holding his face, when it looks like he hit him in the neck. I didn’t really like that, but even if he did catch him in the face that it’s a yellow card, or a second yellow card. There is no excessive force in it.
Walsh is back at the day job this week, working on the fitness of Murray Park starlets in his role as a PE teacher at Boclair Academy in Bearsden.
Funny how the same ref can watch Reo Hatate and other Celtic players actually get hit in the face with an elbow or fist, quite deliberately, and yet they don’t get so much as a free kick. Funny also how the pundits either completely ignore the incident in their post-match “analysis”, or try to insinuate that the Celtic player is somehow guilty of simulation. Usually this is done with a “there wasn’t enough in that for me”. Which, aside from being irrelevant to the point of stupidity, is just beyond satire when it comes from a diving wee prick like Neil McCann.
Mony a Mickle maks a Muckle! Every time miller opens his mouth someone seems to put a few quid on him! Like the toy monkey at the fairground that swallowed pennies every time you you put one in its hand.
I think it’s fair to say he’s been round the block a few times by now. Remember when he used to play for Rangers, then Celtic. then sevco?
Does anybody really listen to what he says? Like his face that never changes, his opinions never seem to register!
But he seems quite adept at keeping putting totties in that sack of his! (Pun intended)!