He seems to think that his monthly VAR Review is some sort of confessional. He admits all of the sins of his referees, is forgiven then they all go out the door and carry on as if nothing had happened. Repeating their errors every week.
Martin Dowden sits in the press box at Celtic Park, he closes the Follow Follow tab and gets to work.
Coming from Lanarkshire he knows the background of John Beaton, the great taboos that legacy media outlets will never go near.
It is as if the state broadcaster is sharing content with the most vile of Ibrox message boards.
With all of the cameras available from Sky Sports Dallas was unable to come up with evidence that Scales was offside.
Willie Collum is also a product of the Lanarkshire Refereeing Association. Now the Head of Refereeing at the SFA, Collum makes all of the appointments for SPFL Premiership matches. He knows exactly what Andrew and Hugh Dallas are.
So over the course of a month, Walsh, Graham, McLean, Beaton, Aitken, Nicolson, McDermid and Irvine have denied Celtic fairly clear cut penalties in tight SPFL matches. Small margins and all that.
And with that Ibrox was treated to an audition of the bedlam Celtic fans will generate at the cup tie on Sunday when we get to liberate the entire Broomloan.
Sterling’s left arm is used to push Tounekti away, he adds to that by grabbing the Celtic jersey.
Then John Beaton arrives as VAR. McLean cites defenders. Beaton dismisses it — “I know, I know, I know” — before McLean finishes speaking.