SONE ALUKO will find out by 3pm today if he is to be charged by the Scottish Football Association for alleged simulation.

The Rangers winger won a penalty in Saturday's 2-1 victory over Dunfermline Athletic at Ibrox, an award that enraged Jim McIntyre, the Dunfermline manager, who felt Aluko had dived following a collision with Martin Hardie and branded the decision "a disgrace".

Vincent Lunny, the SFA's compliance officer, is expected to review television footage of the incident and, if he believes there is a case to answer, Aluko could be offered a two-match suspension. If Rangers decline that punishment, the case would be heard later this week by a fast-track tribunal.

Aluko, though, has an unlikely ally in John Yorkston. The Dunfermline chairman agreed with his manager that a penalty was the wrong award, but felt the imposition of a two-game ban would be unfair on the Rangers player, given he would have only earned a yellow card if referee Steve Conroy had spotted the alleged dive at the time.

"I think anyone that watched the incident on television is of the same opinion as the manager," said Yorkston. "We are obviously aggrieved just now but the bottom line is that the referee made the call.

"I do not see what this SFA panel thing is going to do – give the boy two games? If the referee had got it right all he would have got was a yellow card. If the boy is found guilty, all he should be given is a yellow card and not a two-game ban.

"If the player has committed an offence, he should not get a heavier penalty because the referee missed it. I just think the punishment procedure is incorrect. Nobody should get done more because of a referee's mistake. The bottom line is that if the referee had seen it as a dive, the player would have been booked so how could you change it to a two-game ban because the referee missed it?"