Scottish whistler Bobby Madden has been selected as the referee for Rangers’ crunch Scottish Premiership match with Aberdeen this weekend.
The whistler has been selected to oversee a fixture which saw 30 yellow cards, five reds and 14 goals last season across six meetings.
Rangers will be looking to lay down a marker against Aberdeen who’ve routinely proven sticky opposition for the Ibrox club, not least because of their harsh, over-physical tactics.
Steven Gerrard has spoken previously about being drawn into Aberdeen’s game when they play us and the Gers gaffer will be hoping to avoid it at Ibrox.
Glasgow has disappointingly proven a happy enough hunting ground for Aberdeen against Rangers in the last year, with the Dons winning three of the four trips they had to the west coast.
The Dons infamously knocked the Gers out of the League Cup last October with Umar Sadiq criminal in the final third for the Ibrox club in a 1-0 defeat.
The same scoreline occurred a few months later in December when the Dons became the first side to defeat Steven Gerrard’s Rangers at Ibrox.
Aberdeen also knocked Rangers out of the Scottish Cup with Gerrard’s men failing to turn up at Ibrox once again to see us dumped 2-0 by our north east rivals.
The only win Rangers actually managed over Aberdeen was the 2-0 victory at the end of last season, famously Lee Wallace’s Ibrox send-off.
It promises to be fiesty affair and Bobby Madden will need to be on his game to police it.
