Rangers told Celtic penalty snub was wrong call after SFA showdown as audio reveals NO mention of offside

Rangers claim Willie Collum was WRONG not to penalise Alistair Johnston for handball after hearing the VAR audio and that there was NO mention of offside from the officials.

Ibrox chiefs met with the SFA today after slamming Hampden beaks for not making it available until four days after the derby clash with Celtic. Gers demanded to hear how the conclusion to not award them a Parkhead penalty was reached between on field ref Nick Walsh and VAR Collum.

In a statement earlier this week, the Light Blues said they were "concerned at the motivations" of the governing body sharing a still image of Abdallah Sima being offside before challenging Johnston in the Celtic box and canadian appearing to handle the ball. Former whistler Bobby Madden explained on social media that if Collum had thought a penalty should have been awarded, the game would have restarted with a free-kick for the offside rather than a Celtic goal kick.

That assessment "astonished" Rangers, who have now called on the SFA to make the audio public and explain how Walsh and Collum reached the decision they made.

The SFA have chosen to make no comment in response but Record Sport understands Hampden chiefs strongly dispute the club’s account of the meeting with Allan. Johnston appeared to slap the ball out of play during a tussle Abdallah Sima - but the incident would have proved irrelevant because of an offside call against the on-loan Brighton ace in the build-up.

But the Ibrox board have suspected since the weekend that the offside infringement was not spotted at the time of their spot-kick appeal and have been looking for an explanation as to why Collum did not send Walsh to the monitor for a second look at the Johnston incident.

Now they insist their