Rangers fans claim Celtic have gone quiet on refs and insist they know why - Hotline

Sir Alex Ferguson dubbed it squeaky bum time.

And there were certainly plenty of bum notes from both Celtic and Rangers as more points were dropped at the weekend heading into the final 10 games of the Premiership title race.

The pressure is piping up to a full-pitched screech and, fittingly, our whistlers were once again at the centre of the debate after Gio Van Bronckhorst ’s appeal for VAR.

Stuart McLeod, Stepps, said: “Another weekend and yet again we see teams being refereed to different standards. Rangers have two marginal offside goals disallowed whilst Motherwell have an offside goal given. Rangers have three potential penalties denied, a red card challenge on Connor Goldson just before the break only given as a yellow. To compound the misery only three minutes of added time. Contrast this to Easter Road where Kevin Clancy plays seven of the six added on minutes awarded in that match. I’ve not heard too many Celtic fans complaining about refs since their very public AGM.”

Chris Lowe, Yoker, added: “Can someone explain how every Celtic game that’s a draw at 90 minutes gets a standard six or seven minutes injury time added on but when they’re winning by a slender margin it’s two or three minutes? It’s the exact opposite for Rangers. On Sunday Celtic played for nearly 100 minutes where as over at Ibrox Rangers got three extra minutes despite Motherwell wasting time throughout the match. The stats don’t add up its a bit like the fouls to bookings ratio that extremely favour Celtic.”

But Eddie Easson, Ballingry, argued: “Here we go again .. GVB The Messiah moaning about VAR. We haven't got it - deal with it. The faithful will be wearing t-shirts claiming they’d have won 56 if they had VAR.”

And Frank