Don Robertson robs watching fans

Twelve days after his key role in the Glasgow Derby Don Robertson was again applying his own version of the Laws of the Game to a Celtic fixture.

At Ibrox Robertson decided that a deliberate elbow on Nicolas Kuhn’s nose was only worth a yellow card, par for the course for Robertson who has a long track record for leniency for violence against Celtic players.

That continued last night at Dens Park, a neck high challenge on Alistair Johnstone in the 68^th minute by Ethan Ingram only resulted in a yellow card. Back in March at Tynecastle with his good friend John Beaton prompting him Robertson red carded Yang Hyun-jun for a lesser offence.

Last night timing seemed to be something of an issue for the match referee as he awarded Celtic a stoppage time penalty when Mohamed Sylla raised an arm to block Nicolas Kuhn’s stoppage time shot.

2 mins 30 seconds from penalty award to game restarting. 40 seconds added. Stuff like that is annoying. It’s basic https://t.co/MJqOR4kylM

— Danny (@deejaypb) January 14, 2025

In the 88^th minute Ian Crocker of Sky Sports announced that four minutes of stoppage time would be played.

With the penalty coming in the second minute of stoppage time play came to a halt, there were protests, a VAR check with Andrew Dallas checking for any earlier infringement but none was found.

After a lengthy stoppage that lasted 2 minutes and 30 seconds the penalty was scored with Dundee restarting the match.

After 4 minutes and 40 seconds Robertson blew the final whistle, denying supporters almost two minutes of playing time that could have seen a goal scored at either end.