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 68th 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 88th 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.
The way we were playing in that second half, he might have done us a favour.
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Yep – A brutal assessment but sadly spot on !
That ref is as weak as water. Incompetence was proven last season when his two yellow cards for fouls on Celtic players were upgraded to red cards post match.
He has never improved nor learned his lessons from those incidents!
And our Club said…???
Do we want Celtic to set the sporting trends in SpL or follow meekly in the new clubs way . Surely we have more respect for our club , then to follow in the footsteps of never defeated always cheated Rangers
Editor: We want the Laws of the Game applied, not levelling up.