Matthew MacDermid has been appointed as the referee for Celtic’s trip to face St Mirren on Saturday. The Scottish Champions travel to Paisley in the televised evening clash with Stephen Robinson’s side.
The SFA have confirmed that the 31-year-old referee will take charge of the game, which will be shown live on Sky Sports.
MacDermid will be assisted by Calum Spence and Steven Traynor. Meanwhile, at Clydesdale House, Andrew Dallas is on VAR with Alan Mulvanny assisting.
This will be MacDermid’s third Celtic game of the season. The referee took charge of Celtic’s 4–0 victory over St Johnstone at Celtic Park. In January, McDiarmid oversaw Celtic’s 4–1 win against Ross County in Dingwall.
Celtic will know that the trip to St Mirren is a potentially hazardous trip, especially after the weekend’s defeat to Hibernian. The officials copped flak after Daizen Maeda’s equaliser was cancelled out by Alan Muir on VAR. The decision has been criticised by Brendan Rodgers, accusing the VAR official of guessing. Hopefully there are no controversial refereeing decisions this weekend.
The St Mirren v Celtic match in the Scottish Premiership on Saturday’s late-afternoon 5.30pm kick-off is live on Sky Sports and also on Celtic TV for subscribers to the club’s channel based outside of Britain and Ireland.
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We have to be sure NOT to depend on VAR at all! The most corrupt, anti-Celtic official in Scotland is the one to manipulate the lines, as we know happens because we witnessed it on Saturday! Not with Dallas certainly, so can you imagine how much worse the interference of VAR is going to be this week!