Ex-BBC pundit blasts Kris Boyd for what he said about Bobby Madden incident in Rangers win
Tam McManus has blasted suggestions Dundee captain Jordan McGhee should’ve been red-carded against Rangers on Sunday.
James Tavernier missed a first-half penalty after McGhee was adjudged to have pulled Alfredo Morelos’ shirt in the penalty area.
Gers players protested Bobby Madden’s decision to only hand McGhee a yellow card and Kris Boyd, speaking at half-time, said that it should’ve been a sending off.
Speaking on Sky Sports Football on Sunday [20 March], Boyd said: “He’s got to send him off because he is stopping a clear and obvious goalscoring opportunity with no attempt to play the ball.”
Clearly, ex-Hibernian player McManus disagrees with that based on his tweet.
Writing via his personal Twitter account, the pundit said: “How is that a clear goal scoring opportunity and red card?”
“Frightening. Unless Morelos was going to jump 8ft and bullet a header in.
“Come on man.”
Never a red
We love Boyd. We love that there’s a proper Rangers man in the media who’ll stand by the club and really show his support.
But, come on, Kris. You have to take your blue-tinted specs off there and realise there’s no way that’s a red card.
Madden got the decision spot on.
McGhee grabbed hold of Morelos’ shirt and that’s quite simply a foul.
The Dundee captain was then booked, which is the correct decision for a cynical foul.
However, there’s no way that McGhee was denying a clear goalscoring opportunity for the Light Blues.
McManus is right, the ball was absolutely nowhere near Morelos, who wasn’t the slightest bit close to the ball.
It was a penalty, it was a booking and it wasn’t a red card.
Scottish referees are bad enough but let’s give them credit when it’s due and not try to create a witchhunt for something that’s simply wrong.
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