Even the watching Gordon Ramsay must have been impressed by the football feast that Rangers and Celtic managed to produce to keep the title race…
Take two committed, if admittedly flawed, teams. Add 50,000 fervent home supporters. Throw in a dash of refereeing and VAR controversy, and allow John Beaton to stir the pot.
It took just 22 seconds for the blue-touch paper to be lit here, and with the greatest of respect to Rangers captain James Tavernier, he must have felt like he could have been the filling in one of Ramsay’s infamous idiot sandwiches as Daizen Maeda caught him cold. It was an absolute shocker from Tavernier, and it was a microcosm of what made the spectacle so captivating over the piece. The quality might not always have been there, and in fairness to the players, the swirling wind that was added to the mix made their task all the more difficult. But it was thrilling stuff.
O’Riley stepped up and produced an impudent ‘Panenka’ finish to rub salt in Rangers’ wounds, and there was a bitter taste in the mouths of almost all around Ibrox as the teams took their leave at the break. There had been much focus on Beaton prior to the game after he was the subject of criticism from Celtic manager Brendan Rodgers, and if not for VAR, there would have been even more focus on him thereafter.
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