Watch Philippe Clement's colourful Rangers press conference in full as boss gets out seat to re-enact penalty talker

Raging Rangers boss Philippe Clement has accused SPFL chiefs of selling Scotland football’s product short after forcing his Euro travellers out of their bed for the noon kick-off.

The Ibrox side continued their post-Parkhead resurgence as they made it four wins on the bounce since their Old Firm defeat with a narrow 1-0 win against Hibs. But it was a far from convincing display as Gers were made to cling on for victory. Jack Butland proved to be the Light Blues’ penalty saviour when he denied Leith frontman Mykola Kuharevych’s spot-kick after Tom Lawrence had broken the deadlock with a sensational winner.

Clement, though, pins his side’s sluggish showing down to the fact they were forced into action just 57 hours after arriving back in Glasgow following Thursday’s impressive Europa League triumph over Malmo. The Belgian boss said: “You want a performance of course and I think we did in the first half in some moments - but not enough.

“But in a lot of countries now, teams don't have to play when they have European games. But we play today at 12pm after a European trip where you come home around 2am at Auchenhowie.

“So then you need to drive back home and players sleep if they are lucky around 4am. You have the next day training, but have lost one night of sleep. You have one night of sleep and this one is also a short one because you need to wake up really early to be ready for the game.

“So yes I saw almost everybody who played on Thursday were less fresh than in the last couple of weeks. It's normal. So it's important to take the three points and to keep the clean sheet. Do I want better football? Yes for sure. But it's important also in these moments when you are less fresh, when you are tired to dig in, to get the