Press view of Rangers game from overseas.

[Dargo20]

Very iinteresting view of extract of ICT Rangers match report from Irish Times also same article used in Boston newspaper ....reporter doesn't mince his words.

" Terry Butcher would have been pleased with his sides plucky performance at the interval, what followed was an injustice.

Fifteen minutes into the second half, Ross Tokely made a perfectly timed sliding tackle on Steven Naismith, catching the ball cleanly. Quite unbelievably, Tokely was shown a straight red and Rangers were handed a penalty which Nikica Jelavic fired home.

Inverness were still trying to gather themselves when five minutes later, Rangers striker Doran Goian, went to ground under a weak challenge by Andrew Shinnie. To the amazement of the entire stadium, including Ally McCoist, referee Euan Norris awarded a second penalty. Jelavic?s effort was parried by Caley keeper Ryan Esson, but only as far as Maurice Edu, who side-footed it into the net.

Seven minutes later, Edu himself was shown a second yellow card for a sliding challenge on Nick Ross, resulting in his sending off.

The remainder of the match was played out in bad spirit, with referee Euan Norris trying to quell the situation that was entirely of his own making."

[Scotty]

Just to add to this ......

Setanta Sports started another free preview in Canada this weekend and the first live game on TV was - you guessed it - ICT -V- Rangers !!!!

As there was also a TFC game later that day, I had the rare opportunity to talk ICT with a number of TFC fans who had actually seen the game. With 1 exception (a pseudo rangers fan), everyone was talking about how much of an injustice it was, how bogus the awarded penalties were, and how crap the referee was .... and coming from TFC fans who endure MLS referees every week let me tell you that being deemed crap when compared to MLS referees is quite an achievement !

For most of them it was their first glimpse of ICT and many were pretty complimentary about the team, the stadium, and the effort. They were a little unhappy that former TFC player Maurice Edu got sent off, but that was directed at the ref not ICT !

All in all, ICT got pass marks from a knowledgeable community of football fans and they thought "we wuz robbed".

[dougiedanger]

Sad thing is we are so used to this kind of decision making that we start to question our own judgment, while outsiders can see there is something not quite right going on.