When Don Robertson is the match referee there is a real danger to the safety of Celtic players.Â
Yosuke Guchi is the latest victim, awaiting the verdict on the damage to his ankle following a brutal attack from Alloa’s Mouhamed Niang. Yellow card according to Robertson.Â
Last month at Tannadice there was an even more shocking challenge put in on a Celtic midfielder with Robertson again failing to apply the Laws of the Game.Â
Soon after coming on as a substitute Calum Butcher decided to wipe out David Turnbull and anything else in his path. Turnbull’s lower leg took the impact but thankfully his foot wasn’t grounded or the damage would have been far more severe.Â
In this instance Robertson’s yellow card was upgraded to red and a three match SFA ban, Butcher missed out on a trip to Ibrox.Â
February 2017 and Kieran Tierney had a lucky escape when Motherwell’s Ryan Bowman decided to stamp his studs into his opponents’ knee. Robertson reached for yellow.Â
There have been other instances, at Rugby Park in January 2020 Alan Power was yellow carded for another attempt at wiping out Jeremie Frimpong, a year later the Dutch prospect took refuge in the Bundesliga. Robertson was the referee.Â
Don Robertson was the referee in all of these games and he didn’t show a red card to any of the players. pic.twitter.com/0XYVErHAfr
— TheMaestro1888 (@TheMaestro1888) January 23, 2022
Yellow cards for all of them. So Robertson saw all 3 and deemed all the tackles no more than bookable offences.
— TheMaestro1888 (@TheMaestro1888) January 23, 2022
No surprise. He’s always struck me as out of his depth.That he’s on the FIFA list shows the dire state of refereeing in Scotland. Season after season Robertson shows no sign of improving. A public park referee would get slaughtered by an observer for not seeing those as red cards
— Stevie Murray (@Steviethestud) January 23, 2022
Surprise Surprise. Robertson is at Ibrox on Wednesday. Get your money on Livi players getting red cards. ??
— JMD (@JMD01117381) January 23, 2022
Head of refereeing operations, Crawford Allan, will be livid when he sees this.
He’ll be all over the media giving his opinion on it.
— Luke Kelly (@LucaCelli67) January 23, 2022
Personal injury lawyers is what we need on the board not failed politicians and career administrators .
— jDB (@jDB34772262) January 23, 2022
Surely the player has to be cited for that, and the referee sent back to “career threatening tackle” school…
Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/HdvB0DCCpU
— YES Independence For Scotland (@billybhoy999) January 23, 2022
Hope some mad fan lets that scum masonic hun bastard Robertson no what like it is to be assaulted he’s just a rat of a ref who should be sacked our battered one of the two honest.