Hugh Dallas has revealed that VAR officials will come from the current crop of referees plus some who have recently retired.Â
Hopes that a new era was opening up in Scottish football with the introduction of new technology look to be dashed with John Beaton, Bobby Madden, Willie Collum and Nick Walsh more involved that ever.Â
Madden has refereed six of Celtic’s 33 SPFL Premiership matches so far this season, with the East Kilbride based official one of only four trained VAR officials his involvement could be stepped up by being on the whistle one week and watching on a monitor the next.Â
Speaking to The Sun, Dallas said:Â
Right now there are only four trained with VAR — Nick, Willie Collum, John Beaton and Bobby Madden.Â
But as more are, what will happen is the top officials will do a game in the middle on a Saturday and be a VAR on the Sunday.Â
They’ll be busy guys at the start — but that’s what happens in the likes of England, Spain, Italy. Referees coming up for retirement age could become specialised VARs so their expertise doesn’t get lost.Â
There is currently a pool of VAR trained officials in England and elsewhere across Europe but it seems that the SFA and SPFL want to keep matters internal.Â
John Hartson recently called for English officials to be used but it seems that everything will remain in-house as Scottish football steps into a new era.Â
Well ,well .
What could possibly go wrong
If we thought we were up against it before the baws certainly burst now
Our board have got to grow a pair.
Call out wrong VAR’s from day one.
They should recruit Chris Sutton to do so. He has a high profile on TV / Twitter etc and is well thought of, especially in England.
Get foreign refs for big games. Domestic refs have been proven to be poor/ dodgy/ bigoted….
A foreign ref would stand up against dodgy VAR ” advice.”
Also, having neutral foreign refs in every game involving us and the huns, would help in future European games .
Do the SFA care? or are we pissing in the wind…?
Haha Scottishfa and the spfl never fail our game is corrupt to fuck and if you want to call them officials our refs i call ranjurs supports and dirty biased scumbags beaton.madden.dallas.collum.clancy.walsh.roberston.ross. the worse men in black corrupt sfa.spfl has now thats embarrassing and why is mr dallas coming out saying it eh dirty cheats everyone of them and i hope the celtic fans turn on these cheats.honest
And Bankier and Co will take it up the a$$ and do nowt as usual.
Our officials are not professional enough.
I hope this does not need spelled out more.