Clement rages after Queen's Park stun Rangers
Queen’s Park goalkeeper Calum Ferrie is congratulated by his teammates after saving a penalty from Rangers' James Tavernier in injury time during the Scottish Gas Men's Scottish Cup fifth round match at Ibrox Stadium, Glasgow. Picture: Steve Welsh/PA Wire.Â
Queen's Park boss Callum Davidson could not bear to watch when Rangers were awarded the penalty that Calum Ferrie saved near the end of a stunning 1-0Â Scottish Cup win over Rangers.
The Championship side were leading in the fifth-round tie at Ibrox through a goal from substitute Seb Drozd in the 69th minute when the Light Blues were awarded a spot-kick deep into added time for a foul on substitute Cyriel Dessers.
Ferrie sprang to his left to beat away the effort from Gers skipper James Tavernier but there was a wait before VAR confirmed he had not left his line too early, before the visitors held out for a famous win and a place in the quarter-finals.
Davidson, who watched from the stand after being sent off against Airdrieonians last week, said: "I think my hood was over my face at that point and when VAR called it back for the check on the infringement for Calum I thought 'oh no, not again'.
"We had a couple of poor decisions last week hence why I was in the stand - for penalties and sendings-off.
"But overall you have to enjoy these occasions. It doesn't happen very often, especially for Queen's Park, but enjoy it and enjoy getting through to the next round.
"Absolutely delighted. We worked really hard for it. We tried to frustrate the game for Rangers."
One of the biggest upsets in Rangers' history, up alongside Cup defeats to Berwick Rangers and Hamilton, left the home supporters enraged while manager Philippe Clement admitted it was "f****** frustrating".
Asked outright if he would consider his position, the Belgian boss said: "No, totally not.
"No, I don't expect this (talks with board) because you can put another manager in this game - would it be different in that sense?
"So what was yesterday? Progression was made, top eight in Europe and more consistency in the league and all these things, they don't change in 90 minutes.
"If you do that and make decisions in that way, then you make only decisions out of emotions and not out of what's been going on. So I don't expect this now.
"I understand that the fans are in emotions now. I know a lot of fans were on my side three hours ago. I know that.
"So now are the emotions of this game and I totally understand that because I'm also angry and frustrated about that, about this result and going out of the Cup because it was one of our big goals and our shortest chance to go to win a trophy this season.
"We all know that. That's probably also one of the reasons that the team was nervous in the second half, because they wanted that so much because they know how important it is for the club."
On Saturday, stand-in centre-forward Daizen Maeda netted a hat-trick as a much-changed Celtic cruised past Raith Rovers. Yang Hyun-jun produced a goal and two assists and Luke McCowan was also on target as Brendan Rodgers' clinical side eased into the quarter-finals with a 5-0 home win.





