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Peter Houston insists referee Dougie McDonald was wrong on both occasions to award Rangers two penalties in Sunday's 3-3 Scottish Cup tie at Ibrox.
"I am disappointed and I just wonder if the penalties would have been given at the other end. I hope they would have been," said the Dundee United manager.
"Dougie is an honest referee in normal circumstances, I think he is one of the best in Scotland.
"But I was disappointed that he got there early to give the penalty kicks."
With United leading by an Andis Shala goal, Rangers were awarded a penalty in the 34th minute when the visitors' goalkeeper, Dusan Pernis, appeared to foul striker Kenny Miller.
Television replays, however, suggest that Pernis did get a touch on the ball but the incident happened at such a pace that McDonald had a split second to make a very difficult call.
Pernis was yellow carded and Rangers leading goalscorer Kris Boyd slotted home the spot kick to level the score.
"Dusan Pernis got a touch on the ball, and Kenny, with the momentum of two bodies coming together, fell over Dusan because he was on the ground," said Houston on BBC Radio Scotland's Sportsound programme on Monday.
"I think Dusan got the ball with his foot and the forward motion of Kenny Miller, who had knocked it a yard or so further forward than he wanted to, made Dusan decide to go for it with his feet."
And the United manager added: "The second one, if we are going to give penalty kicks for that, we'll get penalty kicks left, right and centre on a regular basis.
"I don't think for a minute Sean Dillon deliberately pushed Kris Boyd.
"Kris kept his eye on the ball and they bumped into each other.
"I'm not blaming Kris Boyd at all for going down easily. He didn't have any eye contact with Sean Dillon, he was looking at the ball."
"I've got to be honest and say I felt they were two soft penalties.
"They have gone against us this time. There's no point in bleating about it, we've just got to get on with it."
Boyd despatched his second penalty past Pernis to give Rangers a 2-1 half-time lead, and when Nacho Novo added a third three minutes after the restart it looked all over for the Tayside team.
But a Morgaro Gomis volley found the net via a deflection off Rangers' Steven Whittaker and a Mihael Kovacevic rebound header 10 minutes from time sealed a memorable comeback.
Rangers being awarded dodgy penalties ?? Surely not !
