Kevin Clancy won't take charge of a top flight fixture on a full midweek Scottish Premiership card - just days after Rangers wrote to the SFA to complain about the whistler.
The under-fire official was back in action for the Scottish Cup fourth round tie between Kelty Hearts and St Johnstone on Saturday.
But Clancy isn't involved in any of the six Premiership games this midweek but the SFA insist it is NOT to do with Ibrox chiefs complaining about his Pittodrie performance and simply down to the referee having a free week.
Clancy was involved in a midweek storm after Rangers wrote to the SFA to highlight eight decisions they felt he got wrong in the 1-1 draw with Pittodrie.
But Aberdeen boss Stephen Glass claimed his biggest blunder was in failing to award his side a penalty in the mach an incident that could also have seen Allan McGregor red carded.
And he will set out a big midweek of action as Don Robertson takes charge of the Light Blues home game against Livingston while John Beaton is in charge for Celtic’s trip to Tynecastle.
Bobby Madden is the man in the middle for a huge Tayside derby with relegation rivals St Johnstone and Dundee in action at McDiarmid Park
Andrew Dallas (Motherwell v Hibs), David Munro (Dundee United v Ross County) and Grant Irvine (St Mirren v Aberdeen) are the other appointed men in black.
It’s a blow for Clancy who sent off Ryan Kent at Pittodrie for two yellow cards in two of a string of incidents that came under scrutiny in the live TV encounter.
