Betting without the most blinkered of Rangers supporters, you'd be very hard pushed indeed to find anyone, with a decent understanding of the game of association football, who thinks that Scott Broon's sending off in yesterday's Old Firm match was justified.The referee, Dougie McDonald, was conned by Kyle Lafferty who, not for the first time, has succeeded in getting an opponent sent off through his "professional" dramatics. So is Lafferty to blame and McDonald guilty of nothing more than an "honest mistake"?
Actually it turns out that it wasn't a mistake, honest or otherwise, at all. McDonald will no doubt stand over his decision and former referee Kenny Clark went further and told BBC Scotland that McDonald had a "very good game".
A very good game!
Clark then went on to give us the benefit of his professional expertise and advise us that he "doesn't think (the sending off) was the turning point in the game". If I hadn't heard this kind of pathetic intransigence so many times before I'd be hard pushed to believe it. Quite what Kenny Clark's motivation for throwing fuel on the dying embers of our season is anyone's guess.
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