Rangers assistant coach Craig McPherson is ready to be investigated by the Scottish Football Association (SFA) after showing to headbutt Celtic supervisor Fran Alonso in a unprecedented conclusion to a ladies’s match between the bitter rivals.
In footage proven by Sky Sports after the end of Monday’s Scottish Women’s Premier League fixture, McPherson appeared to goal a headbutt behind Alonso’s head because the gamers have been shaking palms.
The SFA will await the referee’s report however given the high-profile nature of the sport – this was the primary Scottish ladies’s recreation televised reside by Sky Sports – an investigation now seems to be inevitable.
Rangers was on the point of victory at Broadwood, the ladies’s staff’s house floor, till Caitlin Hayes’s stoppage-time equaliser ensured the Glasgow golf equipment would share the factors.
Alonso, who has beforehand labored beneath Ronald Koeman and Mauricio Pochettino at Everton and Southampton respectively, instructed Sky Sports he was known as a “little rat” because the footage was proven to him after the match.
“I don’t know. You can see there, somebody pushed me from behind,” stated the 46-year-old Spaniard.
“I never talked to (McPherson) the whole game. It’s obviously disappointing to concede a goal in the last minute, I totally get it. I was called a ‘little rat’, I don’t know why.”
Rangers ladies’s head coach Malky Thomson, requested in regards to the incident after the match, stated: “Without me seeing it at all, I don’t know that I can comment on it.
“If that’s the case, then there will be an investigation and we’ll obviously look at it.”
Celtic and Rangers have dominated Scottish males’s soccer for many years, the Glasgow giants monopolising the home title for the very best a part of 40 years.
Yet, it’s the impartial Glasgow City which leads the SWPL desk by six factors from Celtic, with third-placed Rangers, the reigning champion an extra level behind.
The males’s Old Firm fixture has witnessed quite a few violent clashes between rival followers fuelled by non secular bigotry, with Rangers a predominately Protestant membership and Celtic drawing the majority of its assist from Glasgow’s Catholic group.
But flare-ups between opposing teaching staffs have been uncommon.
Back in 2011, Celtic supervisor Neil Lennon and Rangers assistant Ally McCoist have been concerned in a livid touchline row after a Scottish Cup replay gained by Celtic, with workers members from either side attempting to tug them aside.
Source: sportstar.thehindu.com