The fallout from Auston Trusty’s collision with Jack Butland is still rumbling on, long after Celtic strolled out of Hampden with a 3–1 win, and theRangers fans sloped off into the night, hoping the darkness would disguise the tears running down their chunky cheeks…
OFF TO THE FINALS WE GO!! COME ON BHOYS! 💚🍀 #CelticFC pic.twitter.com/leT0wQcOKq
— Auston Trusty (@Auston_Trusty) November 2, 2025
You’d think they’d have bigger problems right now, but it seems the great Ibrox grievance machine is back in full swing, and we’ve now entered day two of the Justice for Jack campaign. Permanently aggrieved, forever persecuted.
Apparently, according to some corners of the internet, it’s now ‘widely accepted’ that Trusty’s a “lucky Bhoy” for avoiding a red card.
Widely accepted? Gie’s peace. What I saw was a defender anticipating a loose ball, pre-empting it, and getting it wrong by about half a second. He wasn’t endangering anyone. I’ve had worse skelps off my gran as a kid for traipsing mud through the carpet.
Referee Nick Walsh told a once again ‘disappointed’ James Tavernier, the man who’s captained more moral victories than actual ones, that the force of the challenge didn’t merit a red.
Rangers wanting an explanation as to why Trusty wasnt sent off.
The same Rangers that appealed this red card. pic.twitter.com/Bi04vhOx2E
— Hoidy (@Hoidy) November 2, 2025
Then comes the post-match pantomime, theRangers, faces redder than the top of their socks, are apparently going to the SFA to demand an explanation from Willie Collum. Of course they are. Always cheated, never defeated. It’s practically stitched into the shirt, under the club crest.
Now, nobody’s saying Trusty’s challenge was clever. It wasn’t. It was daft, clumsy, maybe even a touch reckless, hence the yellow card, but dangerous? Come on.
According to the Daily Record, “Ibrox chiefs are furious and will raise the issue with head of refereeing Willie Collum, insisting the incident endangered Butland’s safety.”
Less Aye Ready, and more Aye Right.
Trusty literally doesn’t lift his foot to “go for it” until Butland has secured the ball.
It’s as clear a red card as you’ll see.
pic.twitter.com/NxN54OsIER— Colin Armstrong (@moonman1873) November 2, 2025
Endangered. From that? Straws being clutched at comes to mind. You’d think Butland had been struck by a bus, not brushed by a defender. The way they’re talking, you half expect them to call in legal representation. No win, no fee of course.
We’ll hear the VAR audio soon enough, and it’ll probably confirm what everyone outside of the Ibrox bubble already knows, the officials saw it, assessed it, and rightly moved on.
But until then, the distraction machine keeps churning. The new Ibrox owners, still trying to figure out how to run not just a football club, but an unhinged football club, probably see this as good PR, show the fans they’re ‘fighting for justice,’ keep the mob busy, give them something to shout about besides another semi-final defeat and learning on the job American owners.
Post match reaction 📺
I asked Martin O’Neill about the impact of Auston Trusty over the last his two games. pic.twitter.com/lRJf52gqNY
— Callum McFadden (@Callum7McFadden) November 2, 2025
Meanwhile, the support will return to their usual pastimes, watching veterans abseil down the main stand, supping from loving cups, and raging about the woke agenda that landed them a vegan manager.
Horror tackle from Cornelius followed by a kick to the head with about as much force as Trustys from Diomande. No red cards.
Pattern of assistance 👀 pic.twitter.com/8EtXgp7AQ8
— Luke (@_LOH_77) November 2, 2025
It’s performative, all of it. A bit of theatre for the supporters. Keep them angry, keep them distracted, and they’ll forget that Celtic played them off the park yesterday. Got to feed the persecution complex somehow.
It seems, they’re also raging about Daizen Maeda’s booking, which, apparently, should have been a red too. Never mind that Maeda only came in from that angle because Nick Walsh was hopelessly out of position, running interference for the very club whose pupils he teaches PE during the week. You couldn’t make it up, but theRangers fans don’t need to. They’ve got a lifetime subscription to fantasy.
And let’s talk about “endangering opponents,” shall we?
Asgaard’s studs up lunge on Tony Ralston, which left the player counting the contents of his jock strap, would’ve had him up in court this morning morning if it happened outside Hampden. And Cornelius? The yellow was a coin flip. And the ref was the only one carrying small change.
You won’t hear about:
– Cornelius avoiding a VAR intervention.
– The dubious offside for Maeda.
– The penalty going against us.That’s because we won the match, when you’re good enough nothing else matters 🤫 pic.twitter.com/va5u6CIH6r
— Everything Celtic (@aboutceltic) November 3, 2025
There’s always a fallout from these fixtures. Always a media storm, always a villain, always a victim. But strip away the noise, and this was just a proper, full-blooded semi-final, exactly the kind of edge and aggression Scottish football should celebrate. No play-acting, no pampered millionaires rolling around like we see on Match of the Day. Just 22 footballers, a ball, and a fight for everything.
theRangers will moan. They always do. They’ll send letters, brief journalists, maybe even drop a few dramatic lines about “player safety” and “integrity.” But at the end of it all, they’ll get told the truth.
There’s SFA in their complaint, and deep down, they know it.
I’ve spoke with a referee friend – very high up in Wales – and he’s said:
❌ Nygren Goal SHOULD have stood
❌ Corneilis SHOULD have seen red
✅ Assguard Red CORRECT
✅ Yellow for Trusty CORRECT
❌ Ralston Penalty was INCORRECTAnd that’s a referee – not some Hun Bampot on X.
— 🍔 Gastro Celtic 🍀 (@Gastro_Celtic) November 2, 2025
Today as they reflect on their season, they’re out of the Premier Sports Cup, trailing leaders Hearts by 14 points in the Scottish Premiership and rock bottom of the Europa League with a tough game against Roma on Thursday night. They have already chased a manager this season with his replacement, Danny Röhl having to work with the players already at the club after Russell Martin’s summer spending spree.
Ex-Fifa referee insists Rangers should’ve had SECOND red card against Celtic – but Trusty DIDN’T deserve to be sent off https://t.co/S7QQaMKkGU
— Scottish Sun Sport (@scotsunsport) November 3, 2025
The next Glasgow Derby is at Celtic Park on 2 January 2025.
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There’s no getting away from Welsh cheating mib performance was disgusting and disgraceful.
But trying to make out that we benefited hugely from the likes, is nothing more than Hun delusional of the highest order.
Still say that the state of mibbery in Scottish football, is potentially the worst within World football imo?
Very hard to see how the product of Scottish football can actually grow, when the likes of officials in position, will keep the Scottish game from ever growing within the European stage imo?
Is it any wonder it’s becoming a bigger struggle to attract the higher quality of player, that’s required for European football?
I can understand potential players using Scottish football to fast track there own careers, where we still are by far the most attractive proposition within the Scottish game, but can’t discount the risk factors also, especially with the involvement of cheating mibs in operation.
Way beyond a joke, that the likes of these useless #@##s are allowed to continue to take centre stage within the game.
Yesterday’s performance deprived ourselves of being allowed to play our own game in the 2nd half especially.
Yet the tone was already set in the first half, with the amount of ridiculous decisions given against ourselves.
Any Celtic team has to play a brand of football in which it trys to not making them so relevant within the Scottish game.
Never an easy task, when it’s got to a stage where we aren’t even allowed to challenge for the ball.
Been plenty of calls for ourselves to be getting in a hard tackling defensive midfielder, yet just how many games would the likes be available for, with the amount of suspensions such a player would occur for ourselves?
A position to become a cheating mib within the Scottish game, requires a knowledge of stopping ourselves playing in the right manner.
An agenda that’s promoted by hun zombies, and trying to destroy the Scottish game as a result.
Admittedly not enough is getting done by our board regarding the issues, which is never going to get addressed properly with every other Scottish teams, deciding to fall over, even if our players breath upon them?
In a time where changes seem to be the order of the day within our club, then still believe that we are in a stand alone position within the Scottish game?
And yet some don’t understand why we celebrate so widely upon every trophy we ever win?
Not to hard to understand, with what we are subjected to, and is it any wonder just how much the Scottish coefficient is dropping like a brick as a result of cheating officials?