Tony Docherty slams Rangers penalty award as Dundee boss claims VAR didn't give Kevin Clancy proper 'context'

Tony Docherty slammed the VAR decision to hand Rangers a “pivotal” penalty in Dundee’s Ibrox defeat - insisting the image presented to Kevin Clancy was not a true reflection of the incident.

Aaron Donnelly was penalised for a tug on Abdallah Sima’s jersey after ref Kevin Clancy had been sent to the monitor by VAR Steven Kirkland. Clancy had originally waved play on. But James Tavernier slammed home the spot kick to edge Rangers 2-1 in front after Amadou Bakayoko had edged Dee into an early lead. But Docherty said: “I’m hugely disappointed with the decision to give the penalty kick and VAR’s involvement in it.

“The image presented to Kevin Clancy favours the penalty being given but the reality is there is bustling in the box, Sima has hold of Aaron Donnelly’s shirt and Kevin Clancy deemed that to be OK. He then gets shown an image in a real pivotal moment of the game at 1-1. You need things to go for you and that one went against us.

“I’m really disappointed because we started the game really well, everything I was looking for. Lyall Cameron almost scores and then we score from the corner so a good start.

“Rangers come back into it with an unforced error by us then such a big decision goes against us. I had a conversation with Kevin Clancy and I thought he had a really good game.

“It’s difficult because we are re-refereeing games. Kevin Clancy’s positioning is good and it’s not a clear and obvious error. My problem with it is the image he gets shown. If I see that image I’d give a penalty kick but you need to take it into context.”

Docherty - who hopes to have Owen Beck back for next week’s trip to face Ross County - admits his side should have caused Rangers more problems after they went down to 10 men. He said: “I