Willie Collum got Rangers angles wrong as former ref offers John Lundstram red card explanation

Willie Collum got his angles wrong when sending off John Lundstram at the weekend, according to former English Premier League ref Dermot Gallagher.

The Rangers midfielder was shown a straight red for a cynical foul on Martin Boyle during their 2-2 draw with Hibs at Easter Road. The Ibrox club have today appealed the decision in the iope that it is retrospectively downgraded to a yellow and his case will be heard by an SFA disciplinary panel this week.

A similar challenge by Jake Doyle-Hayes on Lundstram earlier in the match didn’t result in a red card, which prompted a furious reaction from the visiting players after Lundstram was handed a harsher punishment. Gallagher, who was reviewing Collum’s calls on Sky Sports, believes that the angles the man in the middle saw both tackles from was the reason he saw one as being worse than the other, when both should have been cautions.

And he drew comparisons with Kieran Trippier’s overturned dismissal in Newcastle’s 3-3 draw with Manchester City to highlight the importance of the referee’s position.

“I think they’re carbon copies,” he said. “You look at the referee’s view and where he is, they are almost carbon copy incidents. I can understand why the referee has given a red card on the day but if he looks back on that, he will think the same as Jarred [Gillett] did with Kieran Trippier; that it wasn’t the tackle he thought.

“Lundstram was very, very unlucky and a yellow card would have been enough. It’s cynical, not dangerous and it’s not serious foul play.”

An earlier challenge on Lundstram from Jake Doyle-Hayes avoided similar punishment. That stoked the ire of Rangers, and Gallagher believes they have a fair point.

He added: “Here, it’s as the referee sees it as well and