Watch Willie Collum’s two penalty decisions at Ibrox

There were two big penalty calls for Willie Collum to make at Ibrox today.

Formerly Scotland’s number one official, the Lanarkshire based referee had a nightmare at Ibrox last month when he sent off Nicky Clark after half an hour to deny St Johnstone a proper chance to test the fragile home defence.

That decision was backed up by Nick Walsh on VAR who made no intervention, on appeal Clark’s red card was reduced to a yellow by the SFA.

Today Collum awarded a penalty to the home side which Tavpen netted from to put the homeside 3-0 in front going in at half time.

Two minutes into the second half Allan McGregor cleared out Rory McKenzie, Collum opted to do nothing about the incident with David Munro on VAR agreeing with that, without any pause in play to replay the clash.

Munro was the referee that awarded a penalty to Ross County in November when the ball struck Matt O’Riley’s arm from close range.

Speaking to the Daily Record Derek McInnes said:

We should get a penalty when Rory gets bundled down by Allan McGregor, which is bizarre how we don’t get a penalty. Second half we were far better but it’s a 90-minute plus performance you need and the first half it wasn’t there.

I have only seen it from the one angle that my analyst has shown me, But at the time I thought it was a penalty, they give a corner but it’s a foul before the corner.

Rory is bundled over and I think Allan McGregor has come through the back of his legs. I think it is a really untidy challenge and for me it looked a penalty kick every day of the week.

Keith Jackson has been known to get very upset at Kilmarnock being denied penalties, he’ll probably pick up on McInnes’ comments in Monday’s Daily Record.