SFA say Rangers fine 'in keeping with rules'

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The Scottish FA accidental the imposition of a good connected Rangers pursuing a remark by John Brown made connected nine media "was wholly successful keeping with the exertion of the rules".

Rangers said connected Thursday the SFA "will beryllium watched closely" aft the £3,000 penalty.

In a lucifer against Hibernian, Nicolas Raskin appeared to bundle the shot implicit the line, with the SFA's cardinal lucifer incidental sheet later ruling the extremity should person stood.

The Ibrox nine consciousness determination has been a "lack of consistency with the Scottish FA's policing of akin incidents".

But the SFA said a caller "sanction imposed connected Richard Foster of Motherwell FC for comments of a akin quality successful the media, attests to" consistency.

On 17 May astatine Easter Road, referee Nick Walsh and his on-field officials thought the shot had been kept retired by Hibs defender Rocky Bushiri, and VAR Andrew Dallas ruled that determination was nary camera space that proved Raskin's effort had gone in.

Hibs equalised done Kieron Bowie moments later, with the lucifer finishing 2-2.

Brown said connected the club's in-house TV channel: "I would accidental it is corrupt."

Commentator Tom Miller replied: "Well, I'm not definite we tin really accidental that." However, Brown added: "Well, I americium saying it."

Rangers subsequently demanded the instauration of goal-line exertion and said of the good connected Thursday: "If this is present the standard, they volition beryllium watched intimately to guarantee it is applied crossed the board, consistently, without objection and without favour."

However, the SFA countered: "The authorisation imposed by an autarkic sheet was wholly successful keeping with the exertion of the rules.

"Investigations were undertaken successful erstwhile cases outlined and that the compliance officers of the clip saw acceptable to contented a censure by mode of informing missive for imaginable breaches deemed insufficiently superior to beryllium progressed to a announcement of complaint.

"We person requested written reasons from the sheet seat progressive successful the tribunal and successful the interests of transparency volition people successful owed course."

The SFA added that the applicable protocol had been introduced "in effect to the referee onslaught of 2010, erstwhile lucifer officials campaigned for greater extortion aft enduring sustained idiosyncratic disapproval from clubs and fans".

"Ahead of a caller season, we punctual clubs of their responsibilities successful this regard," the governing assemblage said.

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