Kevin Clancy isn’t the reason why Rangers dropped points against Aberdeen but he did everything in his power to make it harder for us.
You could have highlighted a number of issues from Clancy’s display in our 1-1 draw against Aberdeen that suggest he should be nowhere near the Scottish Premiership, Ryan Kent’s sending off or failure to give Jonny Hayes a second yellow card for elbowing Borna Barisic in the face, twice, right in front of the assistant referee among many talking points.
There has though, been two incidents which, after the red mist has cleared, show just how incompetent he really is.
It’s not Scott Brown getting a free-kick for Scott Wright being pushed into him or Barisic getting told to leave the park just before an attacking free-kick, even though the Croatian international had already pointed out minutes before that he was bleeding to prove what Hayes had done to him.
Nope.
For one, it’s Clancy allowing Aberdeen players to use rugby style tactics to keep their players on side at set-pieces:
Clancy now allows teams to use rugby scrum tactics against us to keep players onside pic.twitter.com/9ukuPuMnpK
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And if you thought that was laughable, have a look at what Lewis Ferguson does to Barisic just before his header leads to the handball that sees their penalty awarded, Clancy is looking directly at these incidents – remember the outcry when John Beaton correctly gave us a penalty against Hibs?
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This is from the same referee that gave a penalty against Rangers at Parkhead for Niko Katic barely touching Christopher Julien whilst ignoring Joe Aribo being hauled to the ground by his shirt at the other – again, that wasn’t his worst decision on the day.
It’s not very often Rangers fans go on about refs but Clancys blatant bias against Rangers needs questioned. The below link is the Old Firm from 2019 where he done everything possible to help our opponents. @RangersFC need to highlight this.https://t.co/kRtJTF2N0a
— Gio56ears (@Gio56ears) January 19, 2022
Stewart Robertson has spoken in the past about using a scalpel rather than a sledge hammer in his attempts to solve Scottish football’s problems, since a Celtic director criticised officials at their AGM they have had a favourable decision in almost every game – maybe the time for dignified silence is over and fire should be fought with fire.
No mention of Clancy sending off Alan McGregor then? Oh that’s because he bottled it and didn’t! Blows the theory of him doing everything ‘in his power’ to make the game harder for rangers. Lazy piece!
Could easily have been a sending off but I think it’s fair to say that he more than made up for that “mistake”! Two Aberdeen players could have been sent off, Rangers should’ve had a free-kick when Aberdeen got the penalty and the penalty should have been retaken but other than that he got most things right…..