Encouraged by that sort of decision Gordon lunged in to rake his studs down an opponent, Dickinson had a clear view of it and decided that it was only a yellow card.
Having won the previous four matches in that sequence a home win looks very likely which should go down well with Dickinson’s family.
As soon as the SFA announced that David Dickinson would referee the match with Andrew Dallas on VAR duty the outcome of the fixture was almost guaranteed.
The SFA have no such controls for Scottish football which has resulted in the Lanarkshire and Glasgow Referee Associations supplying most of the officials involved in top level matches with other areas virtually written off.