ALLY MCCOIST has hit out at John Kennedy’s SFA blast over the Rangers Covid Five’s treatment and warned him to ‘mind his own business’.
Gers stars Bongani Zungu, Nathan Patterson, Calvin Bassey, Dapo Mebude and Brian Kinnear were handed suspensions last week.
The Ibrox club have appealed the decision with the hearing set for April 20, leaving Patterson free to face Celtic in the Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox next weekend.
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Ibrox club have appealed the decision with the hearing set for April 20, leaving Patterson free to face Celtic in the Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox next weekend.
Gerrard says Hampden beaks should go easy on his players because Patterson is a future Scotland star,
insisting a suspension could damage the 19-year-old’s career.
Kennedy has demanded the SFA explain why they have dragged their heels on the appeal, when they acted quickly to hit
Celtic defender Boli Bolingoli with a five-game ban, after he went AWOL to Spain.
And Light Blues icon McCoist was responding to the
Hoops interim-boss’ outburst, telling him to focus on his own job – as Gerrard did throughout the Bolingoli fiasco
Coisty told
BT Sport’s Scottish Football Extra: "With the greatest of respect to John, it's not John's business really.
"I mean did you hear Steven Gerrard getting involved in Bolingoli's antics when he was flying all over western Europe? I mean Steven never got involved in that, what's that all about?
"Concern yourself with your own affairs and things that can affect you, and things that you can control.
Steven didn't comment on the Aberdeen 14, or Bolingoli, he just got on with it."
Gerrard insists he AGREES with his Hoops rival on the SFA’s inconsistencies, but says they extend to Celts’ controversial Dubai trip.
He said: “I don’t see any consistency with the outcome of the bans compared to previous situations.
In Dubai social distancing rules were clearly broken and nothing was done.
It seems as if the SFA are guessing with punishments. Nothing has really come of the Dubai trip.
“The only thing that’s come of it is no one else is allowed to go on a training camp now.
“We move on from that incident, but rules were broken on that trip in terms of drinking together."