David Currie takes ‘Trial by Sportscene’ swipe at Rangers after 2-1 win versus Hibernian
David Currie has taken a swipe at Rangers after they won 2-1 against Hibernian on Sunday after a Ryan Porteous goal was controversially disallowed at Ibrox.
When Steven Gerrard’s men were 2-0 ahead, Porteous thought he pulled one back for the Edinburgh club only for it to be ruled out for an apparent foul on Filip Helander.
Michael Stewart discussed the incident on BBC Sportsound after the game had finished.
He said: “We’ve got a good angle here from behind the goal. Porteous and Helander are there, is there somebody else who’s fouled?
“That’s not a foul. Don Robertson gives it for Porteous on Helander but for me, that’s not [a foul].
“Hibs will feel aggrieved there because that would have got them to 2-1 and then the goal they scored would have got them to 2-2. And they were still pushing at the end there.
“I think Rangers got away with one there.”
Currie then interjected to take a swipe at Rangers over the much-published conspiracy surrounding ‘Trial by Sportscene’, in which a Gers player finds himself more likely to be retrospectively punished by the SFA due to the BBC programme’s insistence upon highlighting certain issues.
Stewart Robertson has spoken out about the issue in the past [Herald] with Allan McGregor and Alfredo Morelos both bearing the brunt of the SFA’s disciplinary process after being put under the microscope by the BBC.
Currie then mocked this idea, saying: “Most definitely one of the examples, this evening, in ‘Trial by Sportscene’, one would imagine. Chick [Young], that’s the contentious moment in that game.
Young replied: “Well it’s been an afternoon of me and Michael being in perfect harmony. He’s absolutely right.”
Not the same.
Good try, David. But that’s not really what we’re getting at when we talk about the dreaded ‘trial by Sportscene’.
The SFA cannot rule that a goal should be awarded after a game has finished but they’ve regularly dished out bans for Rangers players and overlooked other incidents because they’ve not been assessed by BBC highlight shows.
It’s definitely something the SFA could be guilty of because let’s face it, there’s not widespread live coverage of Scottish football.
South of the border, you have every game on television at the moment so every controversial moment of every game is being examined by pundits and broadcasters.
Here in Scotland, Rangers are more likely to appear on your television screens and more likely to be first – and handed more comprehensive coverage – on BBC’s highlight show.
If anything, the ‘Trial by Sportscene’ theory is more damning of the SFA’s disciplinary process than the BBC’s coverage.
However, that doesn’t mean the BBC are blameless. They give next to zero coverage of similar controversies at other clubs or even against Rangers somtimes.
In other Rangers news, Stewart was blown away by this “top class” Gers player in the win over Hibs.