Chef 436 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Former Rangers striker Kenny Miller believes that the SPL title is bound for Ibrox because of Celtic’s complaints about officials. Speaking the day after his old side lost 1-0 to Hearts at Tynecastle the £50,000/week striker revealed that the Rangers players believe that any referee complaints from Celtic are a sign that the hoops can’t handle the pressure. “When the Gers boys see Celtic getting more and more wound up about referees and decisions against them, you begin to think ‘We’ve got them’,” Miller told the News of the World. “The more they moan, the more you know they are struggling. At Rangers we knew, the more noise that came out of Celtic, the more we could turn the screw because the pressure was getting to them. “When you have that negative mentality it does have an affect on you. At the end of the day, if you are an Old Firm player you have to go out and win games, not make excuses. “But if you blame it on somebody else every time you lose, it just smacks of desperation.” Miller’s last derby match as a Rangers player was earlier this month when a double from Georgios Samaras gave Celtic the points. Analysis of that match showed that he touched the ball four times during the second half. Whilst Neil Lennon has highlighted honest mistakes that have gone against Celtic this season the Bursaspor ace reminded readers that Rangers also on the wrong end of decisions. Looking back to a visit to Aberdeen in August 2008 Miller recalled: “Do you think Rangers players don’t remember decisions that go against them? You just don’t hear us going on about it. “In my first year back I remember DaMarcus Beasley’s ‘goal’ against Aberdeen at Pittodrie being ruled out for offside in the last minute of the game. We would have won 2-1 that day, instead of drawing 1-1. “Even though that decision came at the start of the season, it could still have cost us the league. “It was never offside, it was clearly a good goal and that one decision could have cost us the title. “Who knows what would have happened to Rangers if we had lost the league that season and the Champions League money which went with it? But we never went on and on about it. “No one called for anyone’s head, no one claimed the world was against us – we just got on with it and won the league. “The other week we had our Scottish Cup tie with Killie switched from a Saturday to a Monday night and couldn’t get a midweek SPL fixture played because of it. “It meant Celtic could have gone ten points clear of us and left us to play catch-up with a big backlog of fixtures to make up. “But we never moaned about anyone handing Celtic a big advantage by getting their points on the board, even though it would have given them a huge psychological advantage and heaped more pressure on us. “All of this talk about conspiracies and ridiculous claims that refs are bending over backwards to help Rangers out of their financial troubles is just nonsense.” Miller of course is uniquely qualified to discuss and compare both teams having recently won SPL titles and played in the Champions League in both sides of the city. In five Champions League appearances for Gordon Strachan he scored three goals, under Walter Smith he scored once in 11 Champions League matches- ironically against Bursanspor. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raligt 2,544 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 I remember that goal Beasley scored. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ritchieshearercaldow 22,431 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 From that article you would think that the players are reading the opinions in these forums , exactly what we've been saying Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie1807 146 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Exactly, Kenny.Will see you in May again, when you arrive to collect your league medal. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RedWhiteBlue1872 407 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Fair play hes fucking spot on there with all that.Good to know that is the general consensus with the players as well and they take pride in not stooping to levels that the tims do. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose 5 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 http://www.bursasportv.com/index/video/vid/6217/Takimlar_Stadyuma_GeldiHere is the £50k player arriving off the team bus for today's game Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goianegra 4,710 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 As much as I think he could just be trying to prevent us hating him, that was fantastic, and I love him We were cost 2 other sets of all 3 points that season too due to poor refereeing - Novo vs Hibs and I can't quite remember the other but there was one. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie1807 146 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 http://www.bursaspor..._Stadyuma_GeldiHere is the £50k player arriving off the team bus for today's gameMuch fancier bus than a Parks of Hamilton. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose 5 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 The first half was shite btw Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose 5 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 http://www.stopstream.com/ch3.htmlSecond half if anyone is interested Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jamie1807 146 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Get Miller on, you stupid Turkish bastards Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
jose 5 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Get Miller on, you stupid Turkish bastardsHe is on now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
H72 265 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Well said, Kenny. Great servant to the Club. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thermopylae 15,288 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Would rather he hadn't revealed what the players are saying actually ... this may make the referees want to show they are giving septic a fair go and we all know what that means Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
FatPirateHooker 141 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Surely the title is down to who has more points come may? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
delparlane 6,007 Posted January 23, 2011 Share Posted January 23, 2011 Well spoken, Kenny. All fine and good keeping a stiff upper lip, but every now and again, someone has to stand up to their nonsense and tell it like it is. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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