Smirking Derek McInnes jokes he was shocked to get a penalty against Rangers after his Kilmarnock side came off on the wrong end of a 3-1 defeat.
McInnes celebrated on the touchline when, with his side 2-0 down, John Souttar was adjudged to have handled the ball in the box and Daniel Armstrong stepped up to tuck away the resulting penalty.
Todd Cantwell soon deemed it irrelevant by restoring the deficit but the spot-kick ended a remarkable run of 74 games without Rangers conceding a penalty in the league. 'Penalty to Rangers' has become a joking catchphrase among some Scottish football fans but the lack of penalties against the Ibrox side has led to conspiracy theories on the other side of Glasgow and beyond.
And that was something a smirking McInnes alluded to as he said he was 'delighted' just to get a penalty. Philippe Clement was adamant it SHOULDN'T have been a spot-kick but McInnes said: “I haven’t seen it again, but obviously their manager was adamant it wasn’t a handball.