Beaton is far from a lone wolf, it seems that all of the referees that reach the top under Crawford Allan have adopted similar decision making patters, in marked contrast with how UEFA match officials deal with the two Glasgow clubs.
Once Borna Barisic, Connor Goldson and Ryan Kent were signed Gerrard’s Starting XI was very settled, strangely their on field discipline improved from the worst in the SPFL Premiership to the best. Red cards going from eight to 0, yellows from 48 to 26.
Six EPL clubs have been credited with an interest in signing Karamoko Dembele in the summer.
The former Celtic youth team player recently turned 21 and is finally living up to expectations at the unlikely setting of Blackpool, slap bang in the middle of League One where physicality…
Brendan Rodgers has barely had the chance to work with the Japanese midfielder but if all goes well the 26-year-old could be ready for a key role in the run-in to the season.
Imagine the boost Celtic’s title hopes would get it John Beaton and Don Robertson were removed from their rota for the eight remaining matches?
I have to say I think this is a very common sense decision. When you look at that, it strikes his arm, he is on the goal line, he has no chance of avoiding that. It is kicked from two or three yards.
McCann had a techy relationship with the blood and thunder of the playing side but a precision focus on the business, he built a stadium in phases that has delivered the highest attendances in Scotland over the last 25 years and created the PLC that has evolved into the current…
With Rodgers hit with a Notice of Complaint and preparing to defend his reputation the audio conversations between the two match officials is absolutely vital to the hearing.
It’s likely one or both positions will be filled by suitable people without any prior connection to Scottish football.
A quick skim shows that the 3.5 seasons before Crawford Allan took over as head of Refs, Celtic had 5 penalties awarded v Rangers, under C Allan Celtic have had zero pens v Rangers.