Dangerous and out of control- Willie Miller’s verdict on Kyogo sickener

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.

CLICK HERE for the BBC’s running blog of the Celtic match.