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.
Since July 2012 Celtic have ran a mile from calling out any issues at the SFA. That is why John Beaton and Steven McLean are in charge at Ibrox on Sunday. The next generation is represented by David Dickinson. All backed by honest Willie Collum.
Eight minutes of highlights on BBC Scotland is fairly extensive. More than enough to cover five goals and other incidents of note during a match with an impact at the top and bottom of the SPFL.As a bonus favoured Sportscene pundits Neil McCann and Billy Dodds were in the home…
Willie Collum knows all of these details, for the third time in 18 months he put Aitken on VAR duty for his hometown team against Celtic.
Stewart doesn’t like being forced to apologise, he could be the person to crack the veil of secrecy surrounding the SFA and their home made VAR verdicts.