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Rangers Fan View: The referee should never be the star of the show
A dejected Kenny Miller leaves the pitch after Rangers’ shock 3-2 loss to Hibernian in Glasgow.
I can take a defeat if it is one where Rangers are outplayed and lose because the other team were better than us. On Saturday afternoon, however, that was not the case, far from it. To be brutally honest, it was down to one man and one man only – John Beaton.
His performance on Saturday was so bad that if you had no idea about football you may have thought he favoured a certain side in green. In fact, I will be honest again and say in my own opinion that I felt Beaton came to Ibrox on Saturday afternoon with his own agenda. That may be quite a radical train of thought, but Beaton has a history of bottling it when Rangers come up against Hibs in regards to his pathetic decision making.
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Let’s take a little trip down memory lane. November 1, 2015. Rangers vs Hibs at Easter Road. Rangers unbeaten in the Championship under Mark Warburton. Jason Holt was poleaxed in the box with just a few minutes of the match gone. John Beaton – who was looking right at it, waved play on. Rangers lose the game 2-1 due to Beaton bottling it.
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Fast-forward to Saturday. We go one up and are looking good through Morelos’ header. Ibrox was rocking. Hibs lost their discipline somewhat. Anthony Stokes lost the ball to Tav in the corner. Stokes being Stokes appears to try and get Tavernier in a headlock, fails and then throws a punch at our right-back. Yet the wonderfully impartial Beaton thought Stokes throwing a punch is only worthy of a booking and in fact books Tavernier for having the audacity to get in Stokes’ way.
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It set the tone for his nonsensical display. At 1-1, after Murray scored, Beaton then decided to send Ryan Jack for an early bath. There are pictures which have surfaced all over social media of Stokes with his hands around the neck of Jack. Beaton was looking straight at the incident yet came to the stupid conclusion that Jack should walk. Bafflingly, Stokes got off scot free despite being on an earlier booking – utter lunacy quite frankly – but it summed up Beaton’s display.
If that game is 11 vs 11 at that point, I have no doubt that we go on and win it. However, Beaton’s display was never going to allow that to happen. His own arrogance and self-importance dictated the result of the game, in my opinion. I would go as far as to say Beaton’s ego right now is bigger than Scottish football – he’s absolutely pathetic and incompetent.
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Never mind that the game finished 3-2 in Hibs’ favour, I still feel the mental side of this squad has to be worked on. I think after the sending off that we did not have the mental strength to deal with it. It’s something Pedro has to work on.
However, we must move on from it. Hopefully the team will grow stronger for next week’s visit of Hearts to Ibrox. Ultimately, I hope John Beaton is not in charge of any Rangers matches for a very long time.
