OPINION
Even though Rangers’ clash against Kilmarnock is not on television, it seems that some Celtic fans have come up with the conclusion that Steven Gerrard’s side are “cheating” in the Scottish Cup clash at Ibrox. Kilmarnock’s official Twitter account tweeted that Eamonn Brophy was tripped by Joe Worrall inside the penalty area at Ibrox, but referee Alan Muir failed to award a spot-kick despite appeals. That is all the information that these Celtic fans appear to be going off, yet they have come to the conclusion that Muir was wrong and this whole conspiracy about referees in Scottish football has started off again. Is all the outrage about refereeing decisions simply based on hear say? Because that seems to be the case with this incident. These Hoops fans probably haven’t even seen the incident and believe the biased view of a club’s Twitter account, and fellow Bhoys supporters, about what happened.
This is Futbol has rounded up some of the best tweets below:
https://twitter.com/campbell_liam_/status/1098310460858871814
Whaddya know the refs are cheating for Rangers
— Michael ???????? (@MichaelIrish317) February 20, 2019
Killie denied a stonewall penalty in the first minute. Stonewall. Well, you either support foriegn refs or you do not. Clarke is going to have something to talk about at full time anyway. Unbelievable. Except it's very believable.
— TheCelticBlog (@CelticBlog2018) February 20, 2019
Both bluenoses Neil McCann and Gordon Smith said it was a penalty – so it must have been a stonewaller.
— 3rdFrame (@The3rdFrame) February 20, 2019
This is why we need foreign refs in this country. The cheating is diabolical . Time for drastic change.
— Tom Merrick (@MerrickTom) February 20, 2019
https://twitter.com/awolz1/status/1098309839745400832
https://twitter.com/DBestseventy2/status/1098310330655088640
