Celtic and Rangers title hysteria is shaping up to land a poor ref in witness protection - Keith Jackson

No reminders should be required.

Scottish football should have been smart enough to realise some time ago that its match officials need all the help they can get their hands on.

But now that Glasgow’s noisy neighbours are involved in a title fight which, for the first time in more than a decade, seems destined to go down to the wire, it’s not promises of VAR tomorrow that our referees need.

It’s a fake moustache and a place in the witness protection programme.

Yesterday provided a gentle pointer to what lies ahead now that this campaign is entering the finishing stretch.

Forget the fact Rangers took 29 shots at Dundee United’s goal and were only accurate enough to find the back of the net with one of them.

And don’t bother to point out that Celtic ’s glass chin leaves them almost entirely unable to cope with set pieces and cross balls as was showcased once again by two Dundee goals. You’re wasting your own time.

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