SFA make surprise referee appointment for Celtic’s clash with Livingston

Four weeks after his controversial handling of the Hearts v Celtic match Don Robertson will referee Sunday’s match when the hoops visit Livingston.

Robertson hasn’t had any other matches since the stormy clash at Tynecastle, he was due to take charge of the recent match at Dens Park that caused another controversy when e postponed it 90 minutes before kick-off.

Undeterred by those issues outgoing SFA refereeing chief Crawford Allan has put Robertson in charge of Sunday’s match with the Sky Sports cameras again present, Alan Muir will be on VAR duties.

Before that match Brendan Rodgers will on Thursday answer an SFA Notice of Complaint, if found guilty the Celtic boss faces at least a two match ban from the dug out. That would leave John Kennedy in charge on Sunday with Rodgers on radio contact from the Directors Box.

Following the international break there is always some uncertainty about the make up of the Celtic team in the fixture afterwards.

This time around things are a bit different with Callum McGregor, Reo Hatate, Cameron Carter-Vickers and Luis Palma all missing international action due to injuries.

With a week of training at Lennoxtown behind them Rodgers will need to decide if those players can be used on the plastic surface at the Tony Macaroni Arena.

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