Peter Grant has delivered a public dressing down to Rangers as the Ibrox club continue to cry about refereeing after their Premier Sports Cup defeat to Celtic.
Celtic beat Rangers after goals from Johnny Kenny, Daizen Maeda and Arne Engels put the Parkhead club on course for a potential treble-winning season.
The Premier Sports Cup fixture is still being talked about two weeks later as referees and VAR become the main point of grievance Rangers have after their loss to Celtic.
The main bone of contention the Ibrox club have is the challenge by Celtic defender Auston Trusty on Jack Butland as they believe the American should have been sent off.
Willie Collum and VAR said a Celtic yellow was enough but that has still not stopped Rangers from continuing to complain and now, Peter Grant has brutally told them to put a sock in it, and move on.
Peter Grant questions Rangers’ motives for Celtic complaints to the SFA
Grant was clearly annoyed last week as he put former Rangers man Billy Dodds straight about refereeing calls that went against Celtic in the Hampden semi-final.
And here, the Celtic hero has clearly had enough as he questions exactly why Rangers are going so far with their SFA complaint.
Grant told The Go Radio Football Show, “But I don’t understand, what they’re going to get out of it?
“Because we all want referees, it’s like VAR, it’s like us arguing about VAR every week. It’s not going to get any better. You know, that’s the bottom line, it’s going to make decisions we disagree with.
“Referees are still going to make decisions, okay, they’ve got the help of VAR now, and they still get decisions wrong. I disagree with that side of it, but it becomes an opinion.
“So I do not know what Rangers are trying to get out of it.”
Grant reminds Rangers of Celtic’s Jorge Cadete and how 90% of decisions used to favour them
To back up his point, Grant sent Rangers fans a reminder of how referees used to favour the Ibrox club historically with a brilliant point about former Hoops striker Jorge Cadete.
Grant continued, “And I know people think, oh, because he’s Celtic or whatever, it’s nothing to do with that.
“Decisions have always been wrong. Now it’s highlighted, but you’ve got to remember, 90% of it went in their favour before. And I’m not being funny.
“I’ll get back to Jorge Cadete, I forgot Jorge Cadete last week, about five yards onside. So that cost us the title, really, in the long run of games, because it was points. These sort of things.
“So if you want to go down that route. I would rather Rangers come out and say, this is what we want to happen instead of going, we’re going to the SFA again.
“It’s a waste of time.”
The fact that this is still a topic of conversation almost two weeks on just shows how poorly Rangers take a defeat to Celtic.
And, to be honest, this reaction is hardly surprising. It’s what the Ibrox club do after a defeat to Celtic. Create a diversion to move the attention away from their deficiencies and claim outside factors are costing them results.
Because it’s either that, or accept the truth. In yet another big game against Celtic, Rangers are simply not good enough to beat the dominant Scottish champions.
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