Rangers boss Mark Warburton will accept SFA suspension

By Mark Crellin

Image: Mark Warburton was incensed by a pair of vital decisions at Pittodrie

Rangers manager Mark Warburton has accepted a one-match touchline ban following his confrontation with referee John Beaton after Sunday's 2-1 defeat at Aberdeen.

Warburton was unhappy with the official's decision to award the Dons a stoppage-time free-kick, from which James Maddison scored a dramatic winner.

The free-kick was awarded for a foul by James Tavernier on Jonny Hayes but Warburton felt his player won the ball fairly, and was also unhappy about an offside call involving Barrie McKay.

Warburton approached Beaton at full-time and, according to the SFA's notice of complaint, "entered the field of play and repeatedly used offensive, abusing and insulting language towards match officials".

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Warburton has decided not to contest the misconduct charge and will serve a one-match suspension from the touchline on Saturday, when Rangers entertain Partick Thistle.

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"My frustration over two big decisions hasn't changed but it is what it is, a process, so it will be a one-match ban," said Warburton.

"I pride myself on being respectful and being disciplined and, if I appeared to lose that, then you deserve to be punished accordingly. I'm not proud of that, if that is the case.

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"But I think my frustration was very evident. The two decisions, when we looked at it post-match, it was quite clear we were right in our assumptions."

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