Dougie Imrie was left unimpressed with referee Alan Muir as his Morton side played out a goalless draw with Partick Thistle.
Neither goalkeeper had a save of note to make during the contest but tempers flared towards the end and a total of 10 bookings were dished out by the official.
Imrie himself ended up in the book following an altercation with Thistle winger Scott Tiffoney and the Morton manager was unhappy with Muir’s card-happy display.
Muir was the man in the middle when these two sides last met at Firhill at the start of the year and Imrie ended up in the stands that afternoon for arguing a little too vigorously for a penalty – and the Cappielow boss feels it was the whistler who stole the limelight in Greenock.
“It was a good game with two teams going at it but once again Mr Muir wanted to make it about himself,” Imrie said. “There wasn’t 10 bookings in the game, was there? I don’t think there was one bad tackle in it but it is what it is.
“He was the same referee we had the last time we played them at Firhill in January [when Thistle won 2-1] but I don’t make those decisions. In that match I was sent to the stand. He gave one penalty to Thistle and there was another he didn’t give to us.
“In my eyes I don’t see why you would put the referee under that pressure by giving him the same fixture the next time it comes along but that’s only my opinion and it doesn’t count. Surely, though, if you were looking at it, you would put another referee in there.”
On his run-in with Tiffoney, where Imrie shielded the ball as the Thistle player as he went to collect it for a throw-in before being rewarded with a yellow, Imrie added: “I don’t know what the kid was talking about. It’s just strange, people being young and naive.”
