The SFA didn’t give Beaton the Willie Collum treatment, he was put in charge of the April Glasgow Derby with several curious issues coming to the fore.
“Like many other clubs, we will continue to press for the highest standards in relation to the VAR process in Scottish football.”
His keyboard spat out over 1,100 words saying virtually nothing, offering no analysis and as expected absolutely nothing about the poison that was pouring out the four stands at Ibrox from Ally McCoist’s 48,000 fellow fans.
Keith Jackson has been warning his army of readers aganst the dangers of whorey old conspiracy theories!
With social media accounts highlighting the issues that make John Beaton completely conflicted when it comes to refereeing either Glasgow club Keith Jackson has turned to Stuart Dougal to comfort him…
Obviously you need evidence in terms to show that, so it was just a case of an off the record football chat with some of the guys that turned up.
For describing it as incompetent Brendan Rodgers got a one match touchline ban, bearing in mind Beaton’s background most Celtic fans would have used another description for his decision making from Tynecastle.
There has been rumours that the audio between Beaton and Robertson has been deleted, there will be fans that believe that version until they get to hear it for themselves, the silence on the issue is telling.
My conscience is clear. I think a lot of what has happened in sport and the media industry and direct to consumer thinking has all proven to be true.
When Fashion Sakala threw himself into Carl Starfelt the man from Bellshill pointed to the penalty spot- they were soon off their seats cheering in the Crown Bar when James Tavernier found the net.
Over the piece Celtic’s biggest signings have been successes- on the park. Only Jota was sold on for a profit but you can’t put a price on the contributions of Chris Sutton, Neil Lennon and John Hartson. Sadly they were signed almost a quarter of a century ago.