Alan Muir came to the rescue of Micky Beale yesterday as the under fire Ibrox boss delays his inevitable sacking from Ibrox.
A laboured win over Motherwell on Sunday was topped off after the match when Beale turned on his players claiming that he wasn’t happy with what he had been watching from the first minute.
It was an incredible naïve rant from a rookie boss who is fully dependent on the players to retain his job. Beale was appointed last November with his predecessor lasting 366 days in the job.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst was sacked by the Chairman and CEO that appointed him after he delivered a trophy win, European final and Champions League place. Beale has none of that to call on with John Bennett and James Bisgrove appointed subsequent to Beale walking out on QPR.
Yesterday’s post-match rant confirms that Beale has lost the dressing room however he can always rely on honest mistakes with Muir making it 61 SPFL matches without a penalty being awarded against the 2012 Tribute Act.
With James Tavernier again hopefully out of position Brodie Spencer had a clear run at Jack Butland’s goal. The panic stricken former Wigan ace crashes into the back of his opponent with Muir quick to blow the whistle rather than let the move come to a conclusion before checking on VAR.
Rangers 12th man Alan Muir stopping Motherwell from going through on goal. What chance have you got ?? pic.twitter.com/vULOLkUBje
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On Sportscene last night Lee McCulloch said: “ It is soft. The referee does the pulling gesture and he has not pulled him at all.”
Derek McInnes admits ‘nervous’ Celtic penalty wait after Sead Haksabanovic tumble as he reveals key to cup shockhttps://t.co/1nRdfP8k0k pic.twitter.com/ytus9NBKnA
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As I said before it’s when the same players do these same tackles or incidents in European football and get penalised for it they then wonder why and what for,because in the Scottish they are allowed to cheat their way through games without any punishment for the sane thing.
So the refs ain’t doing them no favours in regards to those challenges in European football,but they are certainly helping in the Scottish game.
If MC Culloch had said ‘ bent ‘ rather than ‘soft ‘ to describe the decision by Muir , then I would have been more impressed ! I knew before a ball was kicked in trepidation at Ibrox yesterday ,that Motherwell were onto plums as far as any possible favourable refereeing decisions were concerned . If that was a decision to be made at the opposite end of the pitch , do you think the Motherwell player stays on the pitch ? Yeah , me too !
There’s not much Celtic can say about a game not involving them (not that anyone of the deepest cowardice peepul on our board would anyway) but you’d hope the Motherwell manager might be shouting from the high heavens about that incident…
He probably didn’t say a word…
Or if I’m wrong and he did then it sure as hell wouldn’t be written about or broadcast –
Be interesting to see what crops up on Superscoreboard tonight, they will polish it up as a great win and three points after a tough ‘jammy’ European win but I expect to hear a few Sevco Huns call for Beale to be punted…
That is if the producer allows them on to air their views –
That said producer is probably right now in a conference call to Bennett and Bisgrove asking what exactly they want aired or not aired tonight…
A scandalous scandalous football media country is Bloody Scotland !