The end of the international break will see Celtic head into what looks set to be a season-defining week of league action. The Parkhead side currently sit at the summit of the Premiership and will be hoping to maintain that position with a victory against Livingston at Almondvale this weekend.
It hasn't exactly been plain-sailing for Celtic when they have made the trip to the Tony Macaroni Arena ever since Livingston's promotion back in 2018. The Hoops have started to exercise their Almondvale demons in recent years, however, and recorded another comfortable victory in West Lothian earlier this season.
David Martindale's Lions are not the only threat to Celtic's momentum in the coming week, though, as Brendan Rodgers will have to deal with an SFA hearing before taking charge of his side's crunch league match on Sunday.
Brendan Rodgers may have breached disciplinary rule 72, which states that no football body, club, official or member of staff can criticise the performance of an official in an interview, blog or social media post in any way that indicates bias or incompetence on the referee's behalf.
If Brendan Rodgers has been deemed to have breached this disciplinary rule, then the punishment dealt the manager's way could come with some severe consequences.
This hearing has been called after Brendan Rodgers spoke to the media following Celtic's 2-0 defeat at Tynecastle a few weeks ago. After Motherwell beat Rangers at Ibrox the day before, Celtic went into the Tynecastle encounter knowing that a victory would see them returning to the top of the Premiership. Brendan Rodgers rightly felt hard done by following the game after some high-profile decisions went against his side, and he made his feelings known.
Yang Hyun-jun was shown a straight red card for a high foot on Alex Cochrane, a decision which Celtic unsuccessfully appealed. Hearts were then awarded a penalty later in the half for an apparently deliberate handball from Tomoki Iwata. The overwhelming social media opinion was that the match officials got that one spectacularly wrong.
Speaking to the media after the fixture, Rodgers stated: "I never like to comment on officials, it's not something I do, I've been stood here long enough with you lot over many years. But that cost us today, the officiating, to John Beaton on VAR, that was really, really poor.
"I look at the first incident, if you put a still on that, then of course, it looks dangerous, but that's not the reality of the move. There's no force there. The ball has popped up. If it's a booking then it's a booking.
"So that was really disappointing to go down to 10 men with that but to then receive the penalty against us? Wow, that was even worse.
"If you watch the incident in-game, Tomo's jumped, he's on his way down, he's not looking and is being nudged a little bit, which then pushes his arm out. So, if that's a penalty, then you will have penalties every single game."
The hearing goes ahead on Thursday, 28 March, with the harshest of punishments being a ban for a number of games. Rodgers could also be fined or simply given a caution by the hearing panel.
James McKenzie // @JamesWHMcKenzie