‘Myopic madness’ – Journalist makes bizarre claim about Rangers star
Scottish Sun journalist Bill Leckie has made an bizarre claim about Rangers star Alfredo Morelos after the striker drew a blank in Saturday’s Old Firm clash at Celtic Park.
Morelos had a couple of golden opportunities to break the deadlock against the Gers bitter rivals but was denied by a combination of some fantastic goalkeeping and poor finishing.
The 21-year-old is the top goalscorer in the Scottish Premiership as the league shuts down for its annual winter break but Leckie believes Rangers fans should have turned on the striker instead of cheering him off when he was substituted late on.
“Any other day of the season, a big-money striker misses two sitters that glaring and the fans are calling for his head,” Leckie wrote in his Scottish Sun column.
“Yet somehow, amid the myopic madness of an Old Firm slugfest, Alfredo Morelos swaggered off the Parkhead turf with Rangers supporters hailing him a hero.
“The reaction of those Rangers fans to Morelos says it all.
“It’s like they were saying ‘OK, so he might be a diddy, but he’s our diddy — and that’s what counts’!”
Morelos joined the Gers from HJK Helsinki in Finland where he was midway through the domestic season before playing six months in Scotland without any real break.
The Colombian striker ran himself into the ground against Brendan Rodgers’ side and was denied at one point by a fantastic reaction save by Craig Gordon from a header that had sent the Scotland and Celtic number one the wrong way.
Since joining the Gers, Morelos has scored 12 times in 25 appearances. as well as netting 16 in 19 appearances for HJK before his June transfer.
In other Rangers news, Jim White has detailed a huge development about the Gers’ talks to sign this Premier League forward.
We’ve launched a << BREAKING NEWS FEED>> exclusively for your club. ‘Like Us’ on Facebook by clicking here if you want 24/7 updates on all Rangers breaking news.