Originally published at: https://www.rangersnews.uk/news/rangers-connor-goldson-calls-out-refereeing-of-ridiculous-challenges/
Rangers star Connor Goldson has criticised the standard of refereeing in Scotland, saying that teams and players are being allowed to be over-physical and disrupt the flow of games. The former Brighton defender was talking after the Betfred Cup Final against Hearts where the Jambos were incredibly rough around the edges. With elbows flying and…
He`ll get pelters from our media for saying this but he is 100% right .Why do they think the standard of Scottish football is so poor ? Its because this is seen as acceptable in this country .
We have had Aribo assaulted a couple of weeks ago and on Sunday,apart from McLeans behaviour, the first thing Naismith did when he came on was elbow Goldson. Amazingly Beaton actually gave Hearts the free kick . Clares tackle on Barisic was also a shocker which should have resulted in a red card.This has been going on for years , remember the semi against Motherwell when Cardoso was assaulted and some of the other aerial stuff was shocking but ref McLean did nothing, and tackles in other games that put Dorrans and Jack out of the game that went unpunished .