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.
Clearly Willie Collum is impressed by Dickinson’s performances in these matches. It seems like the Head of Refereeing is going out of his way to involve Dickinson with his favourite club.
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.
They had to [concede] one free-kick after another to stop us. I was surprised that they didn’t get more yellow cards in the first half, and I don’t think it’s good enough.
Post match Premier Sports and BBC Scotland had exclusive interviews with Martin O’Neill. Neither asked his thoughts on the first half penalty incident. Neither did anyone at the all in media conference.
Dickinson has had four matches involving his favourite club. He has refereed 15% of their SPFL games so far. By appointment from honest Willie Collum.
Since the Ibrox club and their messengers launched a three week campaign of squealing against Auston Trusty their club has enjoyed an incredible run of favourable decisions.Willie Collum and his SFA enablers have risen to the task with decisions that have matched the two 60 plus runs of matches under…
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.
And who was on VAR duty to help Mr Walsh out? One of his colleagues from Boclair Academy, Grant Irvine, another from the PE Department at that remarkable school in Bearsden.