Novo keeps Rangers on course

Nacho Novo scored twice as Rangers beat Dundee United 3-1.

The Spaniard scored with a header early on and volleyed a second later in the game to leave Rangers just one point behind the Scottish Premier League leaders Celtic.

Mark de Vries pulled a goal back for United, but Jean-Claude Darcheville secured the points with a third goal late on.

United manager Craig Levein was spitting feathers after the game and confronted referee Mike McCurry on the touchline at the final whistle, claiming his team had a goal wrongly ruled out for offside and arguing they should have been awarded a penalty.

Levein said: "Not only was it a penalty kick, it was a sending-off. I said, 'What's the point us turning up here, what's the point in us playing?'.

"If there's not a level playing field and we don't get the blatant, important decisions, what's the point in us turning up?"

Levein has argued that referees should be brought in from outside Scotland to take control of important games.

He said: "The sooner we get referees from another country coming in to referee some of the games the better.

"If Mike McCurry had given a penalty today he'd have been lambasted.

"It's human nature that he'd better not give it Ibrox, with all these people here."

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