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.
Slightly more subtly Beaton made a succession of ‘puzzling’ decisions on free kicks with the 23 awarded against Celtic, despite having 46% possession, more than any senior club in Scotland or England over the whole weekend.
“Like many other clubs, we will continue to press for the highest standards in relation to the VAR process in Scottish football.”
Less dramatically Beaton was working his influence on the match wih free kicks and yellow cards. Challenges from Celtic players almost always resulted in free kicks while their opponents had licence to do as they please by putting the boot in.
If Beaton didn’t get Sunday’s match it would have been the post-split fixture at Celtic Park or a possible Scottish Cup Final. Ibrox on Sunday is definitely the lesser evil of the three options.
The evidence against John Beaton is past the stage of being overwhelming.
In terms of video clips and statistics Lint on Twitter seems to have an incredible amount of material to highlight that demonstrates the man from the Crown Bar in Bellshill is unable to fairly deliver the…
Today the SFA admitted that their star referee is incompetent, in-between times they rubber-stamped the man from the Crown Bar in Bellshill to take charge of Sunday’s Glasgow Derby.
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…
From Albion Rovers (Ibrox, Scottish Cup 2014) to Celtic almost every club in the country have had reason to question the competence of Beaton when refereeing their matches. If it isn’t an issue of competence there is only one other explanation.
Beaton was on VAR duty for Celtic’s defeat at Tynecastle a month ago, prompting Don Robertson to send off Yang Hyun-jun and award an outrageous penalty against Tomoki Iwata.