Throughout the eighties and stretching back to some of the seventies Willie Miller was despised by the Celtic support.
Defending was his art-form, he understood the game, positioned well, tackled hard and tried his best to influence the thoughts of the referee whenever Aberdeen were involved.
Under Alex Ferguson, Miller was joined by Doug Rougvie, Alex McLeish, Neale Cooper and others who played the game to the limits and occasionally beyond.
There wasn’t much football on show when Celtic faced Aberdeen as the two top clubs in the country battled it out for trophies.
Occasionally the matches would flare up into trouble but there was an old fashioned honesty to it with both sides capable of dishing it out.
Slobodan Rubezic wouldn’t have got close to the Aberdeen reserve side of the eighties, yesterday he never got close to the ball as he cynically wiped out Kyogo Furuhashi.
Miller watched from the press box, he knows when a player crosses the line and wasn’t afraid to call out one of his successors in the Aberdeen defence.
With John Beaton on VAR duty backing up the yellow card issued by Willie Collum a very dangerous precedent has been set.
There is little enough talent playing in the SPFL, any prospective signing taking a look at that attack on Kyogo might just decide that their welfare would be better served playing in a different league to the one where Rubezic roams around in.
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Another example of one rule for us…Any other team…especially Sevco…and that’s a straight RED…Shocking assault…And am I being paranoid..??…Naw…not paranoid enough…Refs in Scotland are a joke…As for VAR…Shove it.
You may find a push for a retrospective red. That means a ban against sevco for him.
Editor: It will be hard for the SFA to resist, pretend that they are delving out justice while doing their bit for the Clement Revolution!
Credit to him for his honesty about it unlike Mark Wilson who ‘can see both sides of the argument’
Keeps his seat at Sportscene with that comment…
With friends like that – Who needs enemies – Eh ?
What really got right on my tits was the dirty twat sniggering after it as Kyogo was taken off, clearly ‘groggy’. If he doesn’t get a retro red he’ll get one in a fortnight if he does ANYTHING against ‘them’.
TBH here, it was SO bad it should be at least 3-5 game ban.
i want to hear more people talking about banning beaton from ever officiating at a celtic game ever again , our players will naturally be anxious when he and his cronies are involved in our games , from not protecting the players to giving bent decisions against them , let’s hear it , ban beaton !!!
In a position which MUST be impartial/unbiased, i.e. football referee, I hereby request and require that John Beaton be banned from refereeing any game involving Sevco Scotland Limited (now TRFCL) whose supporters have a supporters club named after him and also from refereeing any Celtic FC (one club since 1888) game as he is known to hate that fine club.
BAN BEATON, HE’S A DIRTY OB.
BAN BEATON, HE’S AN UGLY OB.
BAN BEATON, HE HATES THE CELTIC.
BAN BEATON, HE’S A LIFELONG HUN.
BAN BEATON HE FRIGHTENS THE WEANS.
BAN BEATON HE FRIGHTENS THE DUG.
JUST BAN BEATON, YOU KNOW IT MAKES SENSE.
BAN BEATON.
I was watching the Only an Excuse “‘ Paul Simon and the Orange Lodge ” sketch and clicked on a real march in Govan. 2014. No offence but none of them looked remotely human and the “stench” (sic) of violence and ignorance in equal measure was obvious.
I believe Desmond must hand over the reins to someone on our side, someone like the “Bunnet” who will not be intimidated.as defeating Sevco goes a long way to putting the peepoul’s” gas at a peep.
The Old Firm concept must be destroyed.
Charles Green, Sevco founder, has a lot to answer for and the lie has become the truth, “Rangers” in the eyes of the footballing world exists and can only be kept in its rightful place by humiliating them on the park, something, it seems, the present board has no interest in, by using it’s financial advantage.
By comparison to the fellow travellers of the OO the GB are choir boys.