Slice'n'dice
Hall of Fame
Rangers have been awarded 42 penalties in the last three seasons.
Aberdeen have been awarded 21 penalties in the last three seasons.
In 2015-16, they were not in the same division, but in 2016-17 and 2017-18, Aberdeen finished above Rangers in terms of league position, reached two cup finals as opposed to Rangers' zero and picked up a total of 12 more points.
They are, by all metrics, a better team, yet they have been awarded half the number of penalties in the same time frame.
Gerrard's point is completely incorrect.
Ok and how much possession did Rangers average, how do the touches in the penalty area compare, how does the factor of playing against Rangers (a historically huge club in Scotland) and the way that might affect the way they approach it. Unless you actually go back, and watch every single game, tally up decisions going for and against them, you cannot know whether or not they get the rub of the green. There's far too many factors at play to know from the stats, unless you do some proper research and actually look at it game by game, decision by decision otherwise it's just speculation and conjecture.
To be honest, I doubt Gerrard knows, or cares particularly about that (how much Scottish football has he watched the past 3 years, not a lot I suspect except maybe an old firm derby or two at least until he was in the mix for the job). But one thing that I think we can be sure of, is that pretty much every club's supporters in the world think they get a raw deal from the ref's, so if you voice that view then it's a good way to get the fans on side, to endear them to you.
For the record I would suspect that Rangers probably do get more decisions their way than most others in Scottish football, it tends to be the case with bigger clubs. But that is not particularly relevant to this, neither is it the point.