Former Celtic player and Sky Sports commentator Davie Provan has written Jozo Simunovic was ‘lucky’ not to face a similar charge to Flanagan for his elbow on Jermain Defoe.
TV pictures show Jozo with his arm out but there was no malice as Defo caught his arm and as Defoe does, goes down immediately.
In contrast to Flanagan who looked over his shoulder, was static and then pulled the trigger on the elbow when he thought the referee’s eyes were elsewhere – they may as well have been because Kevin Clancy only gave a yellow.
Davie Provan did say the SFA had bottled it by not handing the Ibrox player a ban for his exploits and hammers Gers for backing another player with indiscipline who could have cost them dearly.
“THE SFA bottled it when upholding Jon Flanagan’s appeal for smashing Scott Brown last Sunday.” Provan told SunSport.
“In a season where idiotic indiscipline cost Rangers any chance of the title, Gers should also have hammered Flanagan for putting the Old Firm result in jeopardy.
“Sure, Jozo Simunovic was lucky to avoid a similar charge but that doesn’t excuse Flanagan’s madness.
“Steven Gerrard has had his throat cut by players’ stupidity this season.”
Flanagan’s suspension was thrown out by the SFA as it became the second time this season an Ibrox player had got away with lashing out at a Celtic player at Ibrox. Alfredo Morelos was not sent off or disciplined retroactively for THREE separate instances during the December tie.
Nobody gives a s..t what Provan thinks.
Provan you forget the club that fed you and seem to forget that, We made you but you seem to forget that once a tim always a tim, You are an embarrassment and an insult yet you pulled our green and white hoops top over your head you ran out the tunnel onto the hallowed turf at paradise, I admired you because of what you had helped and brought to our club you deserved all the plaudits going, But you are the same as all the rest you leave our club then you and your side-kicks stab our club in the back at every turn, You and those others should all go and crawl under the stones that you crawled out from, You and all the rest are nothing short of back-stabbing B’strds, Stay away from our club you and your lot are not welcome back anywhere near our stadium, (F’ckng Spikes With A Mic)