Nick Walsh will referee next Sunday’s Viaplay Cup Final at Hampden.
The Bearsden based PE teacher was in charge of the opening Glasgow derby of the season with Celtic winning 4-0 in the SPFL.
John Beaton handled the January meeting between the two clubs but rather than put Willie Collum or Kevin Clancy in charge of the final- two referees that have taken charge of the fixture in recent season the SFA have turned to Walsh.
There seems to be a heavy dependency on Walsh for fixtures involving both of the Glasgow sides.
After 25 rounds of SPFL matches he has taken charge of Celtic five times with the same number of fixtures involving the Ibrox club. All but one of those fixtures has been in Glasgow, additionally Walsh was in charge when Micky Beale’s side beat Aberdeen in the semi-final of the Viaplay Cup.
Walsh was the VAR official at Ibrox last month when Nicky Clark was sent off with the SFA upholding St Johnstone’s appeal against that decision.
Clancy gets the consolation prize of being the fourth official with Beaton on VAR duties.
Asked about Walsh and Bobby Madden at the 2021 Celtic AGM Ian Bankier said that the club had deep concerns about refereeing issues.
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Betting on penalties , off sides and red cards for this game will be interesting.
This cabal is being paid for incompetence and cheating.
How can this wee PRIK be getting ANOTHER of our games AGAIN!! Only shock is GOLLUM isny on VAR duties as part ae the DOUBLE ACT!!
Lovely jubbly now the BIG FIX is set in stone.
Can’t wait for all Christmas cards showing up on here demanding changes after sevco are GIFTED the cup.
Don’t say you all hadn’t been WARNED.
We? all yous fans moaning about the cheating then dont go get something done about it boycott hampden and protest outside it and let they corrupt bastards running our game know that we are fed up with the cheating officials and corruption at hampden dirty masonic fuckpigs runing our game to suit there boys in blue rats.
John be careful what you post on here the snowflakes in our support don’t take kindly to the boycotting of things.
Dumb&Dumber aka Voice of an Arsehole and Johnnybag Green don’t like the thought of boycotts,though I have been posting similar points to your own,only for those 2 bangers to go TONTO.
The guy that coaches the Rangers youth team as the ref and the guy who celebrated a Rangers win against Celtic in a Rangers boozer on var
Aye but everybody’s paranoid tin foil hats and that
A penalty or 2 for sevco a player or 2 sent off for Celtic with a couple of our goals chopped off by VAR and Goldson to score with his hand.
Now if doesn’t get the protests going I don’t know what will,at which point the ball is burst.
So it’s wee Nick on the whistle and Bristol Bar Beaton on the cameras. What chance have you got?