Michael Stewart has branded the decision to award Rangers a penalty in the 3-3 draw with Celtic today, "beyond belief".

The outspoken pundit, who was once a trialist with the Ibrox club in the Alex McLeish era, was furious over referee John Beaton's decision to award a spot-kick after VAR intervened in his initial decision to book Fabio Silva for simulation.

Alistair Johnston was beaten all ends up by the Portuguese attacker and the Canadian clearly connected with his Silva's knee during the incident that took place in the Celtic box.

But Stewart claimed any contact was minimal and said the referee made the right call on first viewing.

Here's every word he said: "In this instance, you can see quite clearly that Alistair Johnston gets the ball, wins it. And he goes to the deck far too easily. It's not a penalty kick, he wins the ball.

"I don't know what VAR are looking at, you can see it in real-time. The ball flicks up, Alistair Johnston has won the ball. There's no point in looking at that (replay), you have to look at winning of the ball.

"They're looking at an incident after the ball has been won. Yes there's a coming together but he's won the ball.

"Oh this is beyond belief, he's gonna give a penalty kick here. There you go, wins the ball. You can see it in real-time.

"There is no justification, he wins the ball. There's a coming together, this happens all the time in football, you can see it in real-time. There's no foul to be given."

His social media post earlier today read: "The officiating is embarrassing our game. They’ve impacted the result in the biggest game of the season. Disgraceful."