Former referees Des Roache and Steve Conroy have branded Rangers defender Connor Goldson "jammy" following a spate of potential handball incidents.

The Englishman has been involved in three dubious handball calls in recent weeks against Ross County, Dundee United and Celtic.

Goldson was not penalised for any of the claims, and now ex-whistlers Roache and Conroy have taken aim at their former colleagues.

Roache told Grosvenor Sport: “I think Connor Goldson has got a better save ratio than Allan McGregor this season!

"Under the current laws of the game, the decisions were not given correctly. The ball bounces up and hits his arm against Ross County, the ball falls out of the air and hits his arm against Dundee United and he holds his hands to protect his good looks against Celtic.

"Ninety-nine per cent of the population would say all three are penalties. He shouldn’t be in a Rangers strip he should be wearing a Harlem Globetrotters outfit.

"It beggars belief the difference in interpretation of decisions between referees. It’s making a mockery of things.

"No other league in Europe has such a variance in what is given as a handball.”

Conroy continued: “There are three he’s got away with. In the sane world, none of them are penalties, but in the current climate, all three ARE penalties.

“He’s certainly Teflon-coated the number he gets away with. He has been damned jammy!

“You look at decisions given against Celtic’s Matt O’Riley when the ball bounced up and hit his arm and then Efe Ambrose – against Celtic for Morton – when he couldn’t possibly get out of the way, then what is the difference?"

Meanwhile, Borna Barisic insists his focus is on the fortunes of Rangers rather than himself after scoring a fortuitous winner against Ross County.

The Croatia left-back turned in an impressive performance, with a series of scintillating crosses from the flank deserving reward.

His free-kick, which kept the cinch Premiership points at Ibrox and maintained manager Michael Beale’s unbeaten run, had a touch of luck about it.

After Staggies striker Jordan White’s header had cancelled out Malik Tillman’s opener for the home side just before the break, Barisic’s 75th-minute free-kick from 20 yards took a nick off the County defensive wall and wrong-footed goalkeeper Ross Laidlaw.

Beale has won 11 and drawn one of his 12 matches since taking over as Gers boss in November and Barisic is more concerned with that impressive run of form than personal accolades.

He told RangersTV: “I am very happy myself, but as I have said a lot of times, it is not about one man and you can’t play good if the team is not playing good.

“We are playing good, we are in good shape and in good form – we still have a lot of things to improve but I think that is normal.

“We can’t just start overnight to play perfectly but the competition is bigger, the squad is bigger and you can see what we are doing in training.

“So I am very happy that the team played very well.

“I am very happy and very proud because (with the goal) I am helping the team to win, but as I said, the most important thing is the team playing good – every time someone will jump and be man of the match, but the most important thing is we are taking three points.

“It was a hard game but in the end we deserved to take the three points. We had a lot of chances that we didn’t score and we conceded from a set piece.

“Of course, in that moment the game was getting harder and harder but we scored the goal and in the end we deserved these three points.”