Andrew Dallas delivers the League Cup to Ibrox

Andrew Dallas used subjectivity to help deliver the League Cup to Ibrox.

Three weeks ago he came to the rescue by suggesting that Nick Walsh takes a second look at a shirt pull on Connor Goldson from Stefan Gartenmann.

When Hugh’s laddie suggests that the match referee reviews an incident the outcome is inevitable with Walsh ignoring the initial push then block on the Aberdeen defender before Goldson theatrically fell to the ground.

At Hampden today it was role reversal with Todd Cantwell pulling on Gartenmann’s shirt for a few seconds as a corner was sent into the six yard area.

To the surprise of absolutely no Scottish football fan Dallas decided against sending Don Robertson to the pitchside monitor.

It seems strange that the same VAR was appointed to successive matches involving the same clubs, especially over a three week period. It makes it much easier for Internet Bampots to highlight the double standards when officials are given the subjectivity card to suit their wishes.

Last month away to Ross County Dallas overlooked three incidents of short pulling on Celtic players during the first half of the match, with the game goalless.

Asked about refereeing issues at the Celtic AGM Michael Nicholson had the elderly audience slapping their thighs in amusement as they cracked jokes about an area of the Scottish game where levelling up is applied.

James Tavernier scored the only goal of the game in the 76th minute, after that Robertson applied some expert game management to see the game through.

Neither Dallas or Robertson will be anywhere near next summer’s European Championship Finals in Germany.

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