Gus MacPherson has had a pop at Michael Beale and Rangers for their pitch comments - but it's perhaps a case of what goes around coming back around.
The St Johnstone head of football operations has launched criticism the way of the Ibrox side after manager Beale called their McDiarmid Park surface a cowfield in their Premiership clash last month. Captain James Tavernier also wasn't impressed by the pitch and that prompted former St Mirren boss MacPherson to brand his Light Blues counterparts as 'very, very unprofessional.'
But back in 2009, he hit out at Hibs in the wake of a 2-0 defeat for his Buddies side at Easter Road in blistering fashion, leaving him open to claims of contradiction. The Saints chief said at the time: "We deserved something from the game but that’s the SPL for you. We put so much into it and played some decent stuff on what I would only consider as a shocking pitch.
“In this day and age that’s not the surface top-level football should be played on but I think we coped with it. Although you could see the problems that both teams had with it.
“We were encouraging the players to pass the ball and we certainly tried to do that. But in the final third, especially in the first half, we couldn’t get our shots away quickly enough. But the players have the perfect excuse on a pitch like that.”
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