Andy Halliday admits he was 'livid' to wake up to find his name plastered over the back pages following his criticism of Rangers' tactics last week.
Appearing on Open Goal, the Motherwell midfielder went through Russell Martin's set-up from his side's 1-1 draw with Dundee.
In that show, Halliday said: “Dundee played a 5-4-1, really compact, really tight, really deep and narrow. Rangers went with a flat back four and they had five players attacking eleven players. How are you going to create chances and score goals if you’re five v eleven?
“You would struggle to score against kids in training if you were five v eleven. And do you know what they keep doing because there’s nothing else on? They play a straight pass into Cyriel Dessers and when they lose the ball there’s f***** nobody in the middle of the pitch.
“People talk about Rangers having inverted full backs but that’s a pure myth.”
This led to some media outlets claiming Halliday told Martin that he didn't know what he was doing.
Martin responded on Friday afternoon, where he cooled any talk around the subject by saying he and Halliday would chat it over a coffee in Glasgow's west end.
Now, Halliday has reacted to the clip that went viral last week.
He said: "On Thursday morning I was genuinely livid. I didn't know whether my head was gone or whether I was angry. I didn't know where I was.
"Just how blown out of context it was, it was mental man.
"He [Martin] could've just seen it on social media and not even watched the clip, and believed that I said 'What you doing, Russ?'
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"Then 'Halliday lambasts Russell Martin's tactics,' after we'd been saying for 15 minutes I think he's going to get it right. I mean f*****g hell man.
"Even after calming down, I say calming down, after a few phone calls and finding out what's what, I'd still not heard back from him because they're obviously training.
"I just wanted to make sure that either he'd seen the full thing or he's not taken it the wrong way.
"His response meant that we could then laugh and joke about it."
