{"id":421085,"date":"2026-02-12T03:46:11","date_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:46:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421085\/"},"modified":"2026-02-12T03:46:11","modified_gmt":"2026-02-12T03:46:11","slug":"fifa-referee-wades-into-rangers-penalty-shout-as-he-makes-major-var-claim-over-chermiti-appeal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/421085\/","title":{"rendered":"FIFA referee wades into Rangers penalty shout as he makes major VAR claim over Chermiti appeal"},"content":{"rendered":"

The former Everton man was bundled over in the box but there was nothing doing<\/p>\n

22:57, 11 Feb 2026Updated 22:58, 11 Feb 2026<\/p>\n

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Chermiti’s appeal went unanswered<\/p>\n

Former FIFA<\/a> whistler Mark Clattenburg is adamant Rangers didn\u2019t deserve a penalty in their draw with Motherwell at Fir Park.<\/p>\n

There was a controversial moment during the Lanarkshire stalemate when striker Youssef Chermiti <\/a>went down inside the box.<\/p>\n

The former Everton frontman appeared to be bundled over by a combination of Steelmen duo Elliott Watt was behind the forward and Paul McGinn.<\/p>\n

Rangers were leading through Nico Raskin<\/a> when the incident happened but there was nothing doing, and Motherwell rubbed salt in their wounds with a late leveller through Stephen Welsh despite being reduced to 10 men when Lukas Fadinger was sent off for a foul on Mikey Moore.<\/p>\n

VAR John Beaton intervened when he asked referee Steven McLean to take a second look at Fadinger\u2019s lunge on Moore after an initial booking and ex Premier League whistler Clattenburg has backed both McLean and Beaton for not awarding a penalty<\/p>\n

He told Rangers News<\/a> : \u201cRangers demanded a penalty when Youssef Chermiti went down under a challenge from Elliott Watt.<\/p>\n

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Referee Steven McLean speaks to Rangers’ James Tavernier and Youssef Chermiti<\/p>\n

“There was a contact, but I am not convinced that was enough contact for him to go down. I understand the referee\u2019s decision to play on, and for sure, this would not be on VAR to make an intervention.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rangers fans on social media were left raging. One wrote: \u201cHow was that not a penalty on Chermiti? The ball drops exactly where he was standing, the Motherwell player kicks his ankle then falls on the back of his legs.\u201d Another said: \u201cAre we surprised VAR<\/a> didn\u2019t have a further look at the incident on Chermiti? It\u2019s very clumsy from the Motherwell defender. Chermiti stands his ground and is stood on and bundled over.<\/p>\n

The Light Blues themselves also survived a penalty shout against them when defender John Souttar <\/a>slipped as Callum Slattery took a shot and the Scotland defender\u2019s arm landed on the ball.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The former Everton man was bundled over in the box but there was nothing doing 22:57, 11 Feb…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421086,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[293,218,68014,22802,2714,101,56,54,55,50535,53809],"class_list":["post-421085","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-football","tag-fifa","tag-football","tag-john-beaton","tag-motherwell-fc","tag-rangers-fc","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-var","tag-youssef-chermiti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421085","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421086"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}