Thomson's untouchable, claims Gus

The visitors felt they were harshly punished for John Potter's foul on Darren Mackie that led to Charlie Mulgrew's late free-kick winner, with defender Lee Mair shown a second yellow for dissent following the goal.After Saturday's SPL clash at Pittodrie, MacPherson said: "There is no point talking about it. There is no point saying our opinion on the referee's performance because he is untouchable. He is the top referee in the country."I'm disappointed with a few things today, that is all I will say about it."MacPherson did hint that the whistler does not enjoy taking charge of matches involving the Buddies."He is the top referee but in his own admission he doesn't enjoy St Mirren games," he said. "You would have to ask him why, I can't answer that."That was his quote in a previous article with a journalist in a local newspaper."They did an article and he said he didn't enjoy doing St Mirren games."The Saints manager felt the red card shown to Mair, who was playing against his former club for the first time since his summer switch, was a harsh decision."The first yellow was an innocuous thing, he'll probably say it was for persistent fouling," he said."If Lee Mair was the only player that was persistently fouling then I'm baffled by it. He will probably say Lee spoke to him in an ungracious manner, shall we say."Aberdeen manager Mark McGhee praised Mulgrew for his majestic free-kick that gave the Dons their first home win of the season.He said: "We have a trump card at the moment with Charlie as his left foot is a wand."Any free-kick around the box is like a penalty for us. I don't know about anyone else but when we were awarded it I sat down as I thought the most likely outcome was that it would be in the back of the net and I think we are lucky to have that."The Pittodrie boss believes the former Celtic and Dundee United man is also working hard on his defensive duties.He said: "I think Charlie has the ability to become a good defender and is developing the mentality that he can be a good defender."He has stopped hearing people say that Charlie Mulgrew can't defend. Sometimes if you keep hearing that you start believing it."When he says to me he wants to go out and practice free-kicks, I tell him to go practice his one-against-ones instead."I think if he is going to become the player he can become then he has to play as a defender as well as creating the things he does."McGhee was also delighted with Sone Aluko's performance following his return from a Nigeria Under-20 World Cup camp after initially leaving without his club's permission.The player will now jet off to play in the tournament that starts in Egypt on Thursday.He added: "It was pleasing to see all the boys give him a good send-off and a round of applause and we wished him all the best. We appreciate what a hard week it has been for him and he has come back and done the business."

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