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I also thought the pre match fans' comments re McGregor, days before this game kicked off, were prophetic and that own goal sums up his season as accurately described by lotsa Hoops' fans. I've captained footie teams in days gone by and if I'd been Celtic's captain I would've told him to GTF away from the defensive pen box area. The irony for him was he was actually wearing the captain's armband. Re Madden's convenient ignorance of the fat assassin's antics, these decisions can be added to the list of convenient ref decisions for RFC that have been endemic in the game since the start of the season. I notice Jim Goodwin of Saint Mirren tried to place some pressure on the ref before his midweek game in asking for refereeing resilience in awarding a pk if it is indeed a stonewall pk for Saint Mirren - the issue is clearly being recognised by many footie people in the game even if the footie authorities are ignoring it! Btw did anyone watch the bbc Hogmanay night prog, Only an Excuse, because there was an old sketch from years gone by that covered re Rangers football club and one of the satirical comments was "Achhhh, Rangers never get pks against them at home"!! While I'm on this subject, can someone explain to me why most of Celtic's weekend matches after any Euro fixtures followed Rangers earlier KO???? I would've thought that there would be an even spread of early and late KOs - didn't appear to be that way!