If he was still at Peterbrough he’d be dropped from the team as a liability. In Scotland Danny Rohl is discovering that he has an extra line of defence. Immune from handball decisions. Much like Goldson.
The Manny Fernandez incident needs no explanation. Every fan watching knew the decision was wrong. Every fan knows why the man from the Crown Bar made that decision.
There are shades of Dougie Dougie about this, they can’t find and stick to one version of events.
There appears not to have been a single incident in the match referred to VAR where Andrew Dallas was in control and in contact with his close friend John Beaton with both men owing their careers to Hugh Dallas and the dominant Lanarkshire Refereeing Association.
That’s a penalty, it’s a penalty kick. His arms are up, in an unnatural position, it’s a stonewall penalty and once again Celtic denied by a decision by the referee, the referee has bottled that.
Since Rodgers made the incompetent claim about Beaton there has been seven Glasgow Derbies, on Sunday the man from the Crown Bar will be back on VAR duty- the fifth time in those seven fixtures that he has either been the match referee or VAR.
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.
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.
Two days after playing God in the match between Dundee and Motherwell, the SFA have appointed John Beaton to referee the League Cup Final on December 15.Some fans seem to think that Willie Collum’s appointment as Head of Refereeing at the SFA is a step forward, a new beginning.It is…
There’s a new VAR show where there’s a transparency level of what’s been seen before. There’s a new process where clubs can question the decisions of referees and on-field decisions. And all of that is transparent.