With two months notice the SPL can't be criticised for putting back the Rangers-Celtic game scheduled for February 27 to February 28.The third derby match of the season will be screened live by Sky Sports, hardly a surprise, with a 12.30 kick-off.
Celtic's trip to Aberdeen on Saturday February 13 will have a 12.30 kick off to enable it to be shown live on ESPN.
Other less exciting fixture news sees the u-19 side face St Mirren tomorrow at Barrowfield with an 11am kick-off which makes it possible to catch the first half before heading along to Fir Park.
Jim Gannon's thoughts on that match should be interesting after his recent criticisms of referees and in particular 'supremo' Hugh Dallas.
EXPLAIN
The Motherwell boss has come out with some risky comments over the last few weeks and can expect a request to visit the SFA to explain himself.
Last year's embargo on directly criticising referees has been disregarded by the new intake of bosses with Gannon not prepared to stay silent on issues effecting his team and indeed others.
His comments about the abysmal performance of Craig Thomson in the opening Rangers-Celtic game of the season were stronger than anything issued by Celtic at that match.
On the subject of the SFA it seems that Celtic are still awaiting an explanation for the criteria for incidents referred to the SFA Review Panel.
RESPONSE
Celtic issued a statement on October 16 saying: "We have received no substantive response on this issue so far and the procedure by which Glenn Loovens and Scott McDonald were referred for review remains unclear.
“Therefore, we still do not understand the procedure by which Glenn Loovens and Scott McDonald were referred for review and other similar incidents in recent months have not been. The process seems to be disparate and arbitrary."
This disparate and arbitrary process has not been used so far this season...
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