I don’t care whether referees are fulltime or whether they are part-time. It would just be nice to have good referees.

I think all you want is a little bit of consistency.

A bit of commonsense being allowed to prevail.

We have seen some pretty dreadful decisions this season but the problem is that it is not isolated to a short burst of poor calls.

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In my day I always felt that it was far harder to get a decision if you were a Celtic player. Nowadays I don’t think that so much purely because there is far greater transparency with countless television angles and cameras while the use of VRA seems to be more likely up here too.

But you have to say that there have been some odd decisions.

I remember years ago saying that when it came to games between Celtic and Rangers we should have someone coming up from England to take charge of them. Which, in hindsight, would never have worked either.

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Someone would have produced a photo of the whistler’s Scottish granny wearing a Celtic scarf or an uncle at a Rangers game and it would just have gone on and on.

I do think there is substance in believing there were deliberate decisions that went against Celtic historically. I don’t think the same applies now but I did have a chuckle to myself when I saw those pictures of John Beaton in the Crown pub in Bellshill – if, of course, that is where he was.

Funnily enough, I thought he had an alright game at Ibrox. The incidents with Alfredo Morelos obviously overshadowed all of that but if commonsense had been imparted in its aftermath then it wouldn’t have been the stooshie that it became.