Across most European countries at least one red card would have been issued, Beaton has never been near a top UEFA or FIFA competition despite being the Golden Boy of the SFA, taking charge of three of the five Glasgow Derbies this year.
Like the CEO of Celtic, Michael Nicholson, Maxwell has neither the personality, presence of character for his job but enjoys an Executive salary and trimmings for a job way beyond his ability.
Tomorrow the Willie Collum Show will appear on You Tube, alongside his media bestie Gordon Duncan in a carefully scripted show that will ignore the majority of mistakes from Hampden on Sunday.
In trademark fashion he snapped into Reo Hatate 30 yards from goal, caught out by the sharp movement of the Celtic midfielder, Beaton seemed reluctant to reach for the yellow card but finally decided that a booking was deserved.
On Monday afternoon the Ibrox media messengers were informed that new Ibrox CEO Paddy Stewart had contacted the SFA on the issue, today the former Manchester United man gave an in-house interview with the Scotsman jumping to conclusions from very bland, non-committal comments:
If they want to dig they’ll know that there is one link between Beaton, Muir and Fourth Official Steven McLean. And it’s not that they are Celtic supporters, quite the reverse.
No matter how much you might brace yourself and prepare for it bad news always hits hard with McCann eager to hit out at an alleged penalty for a foul by Liam Scales during the League Cup Final.
Maeda ran straight to Schmeichel who had no more penalties to face, the trophy was won and a party was about to start almost three hours after the match had been scheduled to start.
At Tynecastle in March Beaton was quick to spot a ‘handball’ by Tomoki Iwata, called Don Robertson over for a VAR review with the decision to award a penalty inevitable. At Hampden in May he was much more reluctant to get involved.
We don’t have to tell everyone………… but we just want to win and to win well and then hopefully get into out next game and look to the next trophy