Will Kolo Toure or Jozo Simunovic partner Erik Sviatchenko at the heart of Celtic's defence against Ross County tonight?

The 22-year-old Simunovic was untroubled as Brendan Rodgers' side beat Rangers on Sunday to reach the Scottish League Cup final days after two mistakes from 35-year-old Toure handed Borussia Monchengladbach victory in the Champions League.

But the Celtic manager says he will continue to rotate the pair.

"Erik has been outstanding at centre-half," he said. "He is one you can see great improvements in each day as he builds his technique and tactical ability. 

"Jozo, I believe, will be a top-class talent but has been out for a long time, so it's about managing his games. 

"You can't afford, when you have been out so long [through injury], to throw someone into three games a week with the intensity and tempo we try to play at.

"Kolo has come in with great experience, played in big games for us and done really well, but it's about managing his game time."

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Will Marcus Haber make his debut for Dundee in tonight's bottom-of-the-table meeting with Partick Thistle?

The 27-year-old Canada striker won a contract until the end of the season this week after a trial.

Summer signings Faissal El Bakhtaoui and Yordi Teijsse have struggled to match the goalscoring rate of Kane Hemmings and Greg Stewart, who were sold in the summer.

And manager Paul Hartley thinks Haber can add "a different dimension" to his attack as he is a six-yard box operator.

Haber, who was released after Crewe Alexandra were relegated from League One, insists he is a better player now than he was in a previous two-year spell with St Johnstone. 

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The debate about Hamilton's winning penalty in last night's 1-0 win over Aberdeen continues on Twitter, with opinions remaining divided about referee Willie Collum's award.

BBC Radio 5 live's survey, which found that 8% of football fans would stop supporting their club if they signed an openly gay player, has also sparked a few comments.

All seem to mirror former Celtic striker Chris Sutton's opinion that football should not be dictated to by "cavemen" with such outdated opinions and backed most fans, who said they would have no problem with gay players.

Stephen Stockman, external "Most? Most people wouldn't be alright sitting next to a judgemental caveman in 2016. Why wouldn't it be as alright as signing a heterosexual player or colleague? Players should be signed based on their ability, morals and manners."

Brady Scott-Patrick, external "Why should that even be an issue nowadays as long as they're great at the sport they do?"

Ruth Brown, external "I personally don't care about the sexuality of any sport person as long as they did their job." 

Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes was annoyed by the decision to award Hamilton a penalty that ultimately ended his side's unbeaten run last night.

The decision has generated a huge response on the BBC Sport Scotland Facebook page, but opinions are mixed about whether or not referee Willie Collum got the decision right. Here's a selection of the repeatable ones!

Ben Sutherland, external "Stuff like this which is making me slowly fallout of love with the game. Time for camera technology. Don't care if it slows the game down the game needs to be fairly decided. Otherwise whats the point?"

Jim Davidson, external "No contact that I could see. Hamilton player should have been booked for simulation. Mind you, it wasn't the best referee that was handling the game."

Chris McGregor, external "Initially, I thought it was never a penalty and the replays add weight to that. However, look at the two players involved in the incident from the beginning of the first clip and you can see the Aberdeen defender clearly pulling back the Accies forward. Soft? A bit. Letter of the law correct? Undoubtedly."

Kirk Wilson, external "Correct decision. There is a bit of before with both players. Remember the one Aberdeen got against Killie? Not much was said then." 

George Clark, external "It was a penalty. Aberdeen think all decisions that go against them are wrong and MacInnes doesn't see decisions that are wrong that favour his team. Aberdeen were beaten. Get over it."

Lewis Hawthorn, external "Aberdeen benefited from a similar decision where they were awarded a penalty against Killie a few weeks ago which was equally as baffling as that one there."

Mike Munro, external "At the end of the day, everyone was warned that pushing and pulling in the box was getting clamped down on. If O'Conner doesn't hold him, there's no decision. Said at the time it was a pen and I still think so. However, how we didn't get a pen for the same in the second half is beyond me!"

Jonny Murray, external "One of the worst penalty decisions I have ever seen. Never a pen in a million years."  

Could Joey Barton eventually return to Burnley should his time at Rangers be cut short?

Clarets manager Sean Dyche certainly sang the midfielder's praises on BBC Radio 5 live yesterday when asked about their time together last season.

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Rangers and Joey Barton will hold talks on Thursday in an effort to sort out the midfielder's future, BBC Scotland understands. 

The player has been suspended since a training ground bust up last month. It's extremely unlikely he'll play for the club again. 

The 34-year-old, who joined Rangers in the summer, is also facing Scottish FA charges relating to an alleged breach of their betting rules.

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Our colleagues on BBC Radio 5 live have produced interesting results in a survey that found that most sports fans in England, Wales and Scotland would be comfortable with their club signing a gay player.

But, although it found 82% of supporters would have no issue, 8% of football fans said they would stop watching their team.

The survey follows Football Association chairman Greg Clark having told MPs he was "cautious" of encouraging a player to come out because they may suffer "significant abuse" from fans.

Clarke said he was "personally ashamed" that there were players who did not feel "safe" to come out, and promised to "stamp down hard" on homophobic behaviour in the game.

Former Celtic striker Chris Sutton told Afternoon Edition that Clarke had "taken the easy way out" by being "dictated to by 8% of cavemen".

Gay rugby league player Keegan Hirst will guest edit a special Afternoon Edition programme on homophobia in sport from 13:00 BST.  

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While Aberdeen's controversial defeat by Hamilton dominates most back pages, the Daily Record has two exclusives about the future of Joey Barton at Rangers and Robert Snodgrass' prospects of playing for Scotland against England. There's plenty more in our round-up of Scottish Gossip.

• Joey Barton is ready to return to Rangers to take part in a disciplinary hearing after being suspended for six weeks and the midfielder's future at Ibrox will be decided by the end of this week.
• Robert Snodgrass is confident he can make it into Gordon Strachan's battle plans for Scotland's World Cup qualifier against England at Wembley despite an ankle ligament damage. 
• Scottish FA chief executive Stewart Regan has promised to battle against England to ensure that Karamoko Dembele, the London-born 13-year-old who recently played for Celtic Under-20s, commits his future to Scotland.
• Rangers defender Fraser Aird is on his way back to Ibrox, with Vancouver Whitecaps unlikely to take up an option to sign the 21-year-old Canada international permanently after a loan spell
• Aberdeen gave the Scottish Professional Football League a cash guarantee that they will sell 50% of tickets for the League Cup final against Celtic.

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Good morning. It's the morning after another controversial night in Scottish football - and Willie Collum's refereeing career.

Aberdeen were left unhappy after the award of a penalty to Hamilton Accies from which Alex D'Acol scored the only goal of a game that ended the visitors' unbeaten run and prevented them narrowing the gap at the top with Celtic to a point.

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Tonight, Celtic have the chance to extend their lead further when they visit Ross County and there are four other Premiership games and we'll have the build up to those throughout the day.

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