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It's not even the penalty, even though that decided the game. It's the general way beaton treated both teams across the 90 mins. You'd have to be blind not to see it.

Here's a common rant re Beaton from many Hibs fans in the east stand - "What's this ref doing now"? That sums up his whole contribution to this match. I must say that Porty could be criticised for being negligent v a known "diver" named Kent, but he didn't deliberately trip the lad and it was a "dive". A lotta folk on footie progs like Sky Sport, MOTD and Sportscene seem to be getting more n more obsessed with a player "touching" or "making contact" with another player in a pen box rather than focusing on the felled player actually "looking for a pk decision" i.e. simulation. And the offending player having no deliberation to bring down any player in the pen box anyway.
On a separate issue, that gross misconduct by Rangers fans using flares, preceding the KO last night, was an absolute disgrace - one of the worst I've witnessed for a long time. The scale of this offence was jawdropping re the fairly high number of these morons who were brandishing these flares. I expect the SFA to take action in much the same way as UEFA apply strict sanctions against this dangerous practise in the confines of a footie stadium. It's the brazen, impudent way that these people, wearing Rangers colours, are doing this and appear to be "getting away with it". Sanctions and try to ID all offenders using video footage please!! Then subsequent bans are in order. The threat to public safety was absolutely clear last night as one could observe molten ash dropping down from these flares to people located in the lower stand - absolutely outrageous behaviour that must be dealt with accordingly. I also noticed a policeman hurt and being ushered away after some unsavoury event during the last quarter of this game. There is some real low-life scum following this lot and I'm not referring to just a few people!!