As clear as mud- BBC pundit hits out at controversial Celtic VAR call

Michael Stewart has laughed at the VAR explanation for disallowing Jota’s ‘goal’ at Motherwell last night.

Just before the hour mark Kyogo Furuhashi threaded through a perfect ball that the former Benfica winger ran onto the dinked his shot over Liam Kelly for a Goal of the Season contender before the linesman raised his flag.

After a short pause to check the goal at the VAR studio play resumed with a free kick to Motherwell.

It was a marginal call, it could have gone either way but soon afterwards a VAR image was broadcast showing a picture taken from around 40 yards away from the incident.

Covering Sportcene last night, The Sun reports:

Laughing as he began to speak, Stewart said: “This was clear as mud. It’s very, very tight. I think he’s probably marginally off, you can see his body position is leaning forward and I would say maybe his head is slightly off.”

After a media charm offensive in the build up to VAR there hasn’t been a word from Crawford Allan or the SFA offering any explanations.

A simple report with a couple of VAR line images on the SFA website an hour after the final whistle would go a long way towards clearing confusion.