Dundee v Celtic – John Beaton with the whistle, Dallas on VAR

Beaton will be assisted by David Roome and Dougie Potter with Peter Stuart on Fourth official duties at Dens Park.

Meanwhile on VAR we will be on a wing and a prayer in the hands of Andrew Dallas and his assistant Graeme Leslie.

What could possibly go wrong? After theRangers lost to Motherwell at Ibrox early last month, it seemed that there was no way that Celtic were going to be allowed to win at Tynecastle the next day. John Beaton was on VAR and Brendan Rodgers ended up serving a one match touchline ban for calling Beaton incompetent.

Then at Ibrox in the recent Glasgow Derby Beaton had the whistle and it was Nick Walsh on VAR (reversing their Tynecastle roles) and with the help of some highly edited VAR footage managed to concoct a case to award theRangers a penalty and a route back into the game when Fabio Silva failed to stay in his feet.

So it’s John Beaton time at Dens Park and the whistler is sure to get the very warm reception from the travelling Celtic support.

Incidentally has Willie Collum been given a game involving theRangers in the Scottish Premiership since the Glasgow Derby at Celtic Park at the end of December?

David Potter’s bestseller The Celtic Rising ~ 1965: The Year Jock Stein Changed Everything is completely sold out in print on but is available on Amazon kindle, with all the photographs of the hardback edition, for HALF PRICE at just £3.49…