Philippe Clement in Rangers penalty rage as Ibrox boss reveals his phone exploded over 'weird' VAR snub

Raging Rangers boss Philippe Clement blasted VAR Alan Muir for not sending referee John Beaton to the monitor to review a penalty he insists should have been given.

Clement watched on at Hampden as his side suffered a painful penalty shootout defeat to Celtic in the Premier Sports Cup final. The Belgian admitted he was baffled that Beaton wasn’t at least asked to check a pull by Hoops substitute Liam Scales on Vaclav Cerny as he attempted to make his way into the box early in extra time of the pulsating cup final.

Celtic went on to win 5-4 on spot kicks after they had shared six goals after 120 minutes and seething. Speaking to the media in his post match press conference, seething Clement said: “I don't know if you saw the images back, but my phone is overloaded with the penalty situation with Cerny. I get hundreds of messages now about that. That's also a really decisive moment in the game.

“Of course, he (the referee) cannot see that moment. But he didn't get the communication from the VAR to come to watch the screen, which for me is a really weird situation. At least there's no look about that kind of situation in this kind of game, about the situation that the referee can make a decision in that way.

“I didn't see it at the time because I still have quite good eyes, but I cannot see that much distance if the foot is outside or inside or on the line.

"So no, but my phone is full of messages from everybody. I don't know. So those are things I cannot control.

“I know that all of you like to dig deep into things. So maybe it's also a very important moment to dig into that, about why there's no communication in that moment about a big decision like that, because it's clear for everybody it's a game-decisive decision.