Davie Martindale has fired a frosty blast at the Rangers support for their snowball shenanigans.
Giovanni van Bronckhorst was left grinning as the Dutchman marked his first Premiership clash in charge with a 3-1 victory over Livingston.
But furious Lions boss Martindale wasn’t laughing as he refused to see the funny side of the travelling Gers faithful’s half-time high-jinx.
Fans playfully lobbed with snow cleared from the Tony Macaroni Arena pitch at each other before turning their attention on police and photographers.
But the start of the second-half was then delayed by nine minutes when home keeper Max Stryjek became their target.
Referee David Munro only gave the go-ahead for the second half to resume once the pile of icy missiles had been cleared from the Poles’ goalmouth.
In bizarre scenes, Martindale ordered his players to warm-up at the side of the pitch while he marched on to the park to remonstrate with the officials.
And he laid into the Gers support again after the final whistle.
He said: “We shouldn’t be standing here talking about the doughballs with the snowballs.
“I just don’t understand it. You could maybe see if it your team is getting beat and there is a bit of frustration there.
“But when your team is winning 2-1, to hold up the second half – I don’t understand that at all.
“I just think it’s a little bit of a blight on Scottish football – it’s on telly!
“It’s on national telly and people are watching that so, come on, screw the nut a wee bit.
“I know the majority of Rangers fans were not throwing snowballs but it doesn’t look good for anyone.
“It doesn’t look good for Rangers, it doesn’t look good for Livingston and it doesn’t look good for Scottish football.
“That’s my take on it anyway.
“Rangers should be going away from here talking about the 3-1 win in Gio’s first game, their first three points under the new manager.
“But instead we are talking about the Rangers fans throwing snowballs at the Livingston players at the start of the second half.
“It’s just stupid and I don’t understand it.
“With the snow in the penalty box, it could have been back to the Liverpool beach ball one - different I know but you get the analogy.
“You want to be talking about the football so fair play to Rangers.”
Scott Arfield and Joe Aribo put Gers in control early on before Bruce Anderson exploited some more ropey defending from the champions to pull a goal back.
But Fashion Sakala’s late header sealed victory for Van Bronckhorst’s team.
The new boss said: "We controlled the game and in the first 20-25 minutes, scored two goals. We knew the chances would come in that manner, with Scott making his runs into the spaces.
“The first goal was excellent and the second goal was also really good in terms of possession from our side and a great shot by Joe.
"After that we lost our intent a little bit. We were a bit sloppy in our speed of play and going 2-1 made it a real game.
"In the second half, we controlled it more and didn't give any chances away.
"But if you have so much control of the game, you have to make sure you finish the game as early as possible.
"I think we kept Livingston in the game for too long until Sakala's header from the corner kick. That was a relief for us to make it 3-1 and then we kept the ball and didn't give them any chance to play any more."
