UEFA have appointed Greek referee Tasos Sidiropoulos to take charge of tonight’s Champions League qualifier at Ibrox.
Last week Irfan Peljto from Bosnia applied the Laws of the Game with Union being awarded a penalty after Connor Goldson handled the ball.
Following Saturday’s appearance of Kevin Clancy at Ibrox against Kilmarnock seeing Sidiropoulos in charge will be an early warning to the home side, especially John Lundstram who was given two yellow and one red card before half-time in last season’s Europa League Play Off against Alashkert.
Trailing 2-0 from the first leg the pressure is on Giovanni van Bronckhorst who has to decide whether he can start the match with Alfredo Morelos and Ryan Kent who both missed last week’s defeat in Belgium.
Winning tonight keeps the door to the Champions League open with a £5m payment direct from UEFA plus the proceeds of a home match next week against PSV Eindhoven or Monaco.
Last season Lundstram played 48 matches with his only domestic yellow card coming in the Scottish Cup semi-final which was refereed in a very strange manner by Bobby Madden.
His other bookings came against Borussia Dortmund and Brondby plus his double yellow/red against Alashkert.
Oh dear…boots on the ground or else tonight…:)
Lovely jubbly.
No booking in the UEL Final?
Editor: Nope https://www.soccerbase.com/players/player.sd?player_id=69288&season_id=154
Hopefully they get gubbed and put in their place!
A result for Union tonight would be sweeter than Belgian chocolate.