Former Rangers supervisor Graeme Murty has revealed he needs he did not wield the axe on Andy Halliday in the course of the first half of an notorious trouncing towards Celtic.
The Ibrox diehard was left fizzing after he was eliminated earlier than the interval whereas trailing Celtic 2-0 in a Scottish Cup semi-final at Hampden in 2018.
Boyhood fan Halliday required Bruno Alves to calm him as he launched a verbal volley to the teaching workers.
Brendan Rodgers' facet would go on and safe a complete 4-0 win however the choice to bin the midfielder earlier than the break was met with derision amongst many Rangers followers.
And Murty admits he would do issues otherwise now.
Chatting with BBC Sportsound, he stated: "I spoke to Andy afterwards and I used to be questioned by a journalist fairly carefully about why I hadn't spoken to Andy but, it was two days after the occasion
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"You must really choose your time correctly so I've spoken to Andy since I've seen him pretty lately.
"Of all of the issues that I've needed to look again on there's two that I'd change.
"I would not have taken him off as a result of he did not deserve it however I felt at the moment I needed to do one thing to attempt to make a change to assist the crew.
"I nonetheless consider a supervisor has to have the best to do this and so they want to have the ability to try this in the event that they assume it is proper.
"It is not a private choice, it is a skilled choice to attempt to assist the crew.
"However that acquired him a stage of stick and a stage of stigma that as an individual and participant he did not deserve.
"Trying again on it that is on me and I want I hadn't executed it."