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Paul Slane and Andy Halliday are left bemused<\/p>\nHalliday was certain the Celtic defender was about to follow Thelo Aasgaard up the tunnel after Premier Sports Cup semi flashpointPaul Slane and Andy Halliday are left bemused<\/p>\n
Andy Halliday was certain Auston Trusty<\/a> was about to see red at Hampden for kicking Jack Butland in the head.<\/p>\n But the Motherwell star was left dumbfounded when the Celtic defender was only booked, describing Nick Walsh and VAR’s decision as “f***** laughable.”<\/p>\n The Ibrox club are set to demand answers from SFA refs chief Willie Collum<\/a> after they felt Trusty had endangered Butland’s safety and should have been given his marching orders.<\/p>\n Rangers<\/a> fan Halliday was taking part in Premier Sports Cup<\/a> semi-final watch-along with fellow Open Goal host and former Celtic youth star Paul Slane.<\/p>\n Thelo Aasgaard had already been shown a straight red for a high and reckless challenge on Anthony Ralston, following Johnny Kenny’s headed opener for the Hoops.<\/p>\n Halliday, whose Steelmen were dumped out of the other semi-final 4-1 by St Mirren on Saturday, was convinced the last four clash was abpit to be evened up.<\/p>\n But when Walsh and VAR were satisfied with only a booking, he couldn’t believe what he was seeing and was as animated as any other Gers fan watchig on.<\/p>\n Halliday:<\/strong> “Red card. There we go, ten men each, game back on. Game back on.”<\/p>\n Slane:<\/strong> “What’s he daein?”<\/p>\n Halliday:<\/strong> “If that’s no a red card…mate, oh my God.<\/p>\n Slane:<\/strong> “What the f*** is he daein?”<\/p>\n Halliday: <\/strong>“Red card all day long….don’t tell me he’s played on?!”<\/p>\n Slane:<\/strong> “…he’s played on.”<\/p>\n Halliday: <\/strong>“Naw there’s no way he’s played on. No way.”<\/p>\n Slane:<\/strong> “I don’t even think it’s getting checked.”<\/p>\n Halliday: <\/strong>“Nah he cannae have played on. He’s booted him in the heid! And he’s got the ball in his hands…he’s played on! Hahahahahaha! OH MY GOD! Oh my God. That is f****** laughable. Honest to God, that is embarrassing. Watch people try and defend that. Butland’s actually got his hands on the ball. Trusty boots him in the heid and he gets a yellow card. Oh my God, Scottish fitba man.”<\/p>\n Slane: <\/strong>“Dry yer eyes Andy!”<\/p>\n Halliday:<\/strong> “Scottish fitba man. That is mad. honest to God”<\/p>\n Slane:<\/strong> “It’s a conspiracy Andy!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Halliday was certain the Celtic defender was about to follow Thelo Aasgaard up the tunnel after Premier Sports…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":351880,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[172161,172165,172162,7754,172166,172163,128305,9787,221,62,172164,67,132,68,128517],"class_list":{"0":"post-351879","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-soccer","8":"tag-andy-halliday","9":"tag-anthony-ralston","10":"tag-auston-trusty","11":"tag-celtic-fc","12":"tag-hampden-park","13":"tag-jack-butland","14":"tag-premier-sports-cup","15":"tag-rangers-fc","16":"tag-soccer","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-thelo-aasgaard","19":"tag-united-states","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-us","22":"tag-var"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115484012324319854","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351879\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/351880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}