For the 11th time since the turn of the year Philippe Clement’s side won’t have to put up with Willie Collum being involved in one of their SPFL fixtures.
Following the December 30 defeat to Celtic the Ibrox club unleashed a campaign against the Lanarkshire official through their media messengers that culminated in a demand that Collum isn’t involved in future matches.
Don Robertson will referee Sunday’s match away to Dundee, David Munro will be the Fourth Official with True Blue and friend of Ally McCoist, Greg Aitken in the VAR studio.
Making a guest appearance as an assistant referee is Tory leader Douglas Ross.
Crawford Allan recently claimed that the SFA don’t appoint referees on instructions from clubs but the treatment of Collum contradicts the words of the Head of Refereeing.
The former RE teacher was handed the Scottish Cup tie at home to Ayr United where he performed to instructions with a booking for Scott Brown and overlooking a second yellow card due to Fabio Silva.
Celtic have had the misfortune to have Collum referee two of their matches in the last month, away to Motherwell in the SPFL and at home to Livingston last week in the Scottish Cup.
Euan Anderson from Clydebank will referee Saturday’s match between Celtic and St Johnstone.
