Rangers goalkeeper Jack Butland admits he finds it “tough to just accept” the choice to not ship off Celtic defender Auston Trusty in Sunday's Scottish League Cup semi-final.
Trusty's boot appeared to attach with Butland's head earlier than being proven a yellow card from referee Nick Walsh with no VAR intervention.
The ruling left Rangers “involved” with Celtic happening to win 3-1 in extra-time.
“Was there a large quantity of malice concerned?” Butland requested.
“Not essentially. You'd prefer to assume that you just're protected, in a way, from issues like that.
“Seeing it afterwards, it was maybe later than I believed in actual time as effectively. So, a tough one to just accept.
“Tough to just accept that that is maybe a precedent that's going to proceed if that is an identical scenario in opposition to any group, no matter who it's.
“Clearly, with the addition of all the help that the referees maybe get these days, we will solely hope shifting ahead that the correct choices get made and it stays as honest because it presumably can.”
Butland was talking after Rangers suffered their fourth Europa League defeat of the marketing campaign within the 2-0 dwelling loss to Roma.
It is a consequence which leaves them backside of the desk with no factors, having now misplaced their previous seven European matches.
“We will not settle for the place we're at proper now,” he defined. “It is one thing that we have to take personally and one thing that we have to do higher within the remaining 4 video games and see the place that takes us.
“It is a tough time, nevertheless it's one the place you may have a possibility to face up. The membership's all the time going to be beneath the microscope. It is about sticking your chest out and getting on with it and standing as much as the problem and being higher.
“I feel it is a possibility for us to do with this group is to show lots of people fallacious.”
