SFA forced into humiliating VAR u-turn

It has only taken two rounds of VAR fixtures to expose the utter incompetence of Scottish refereeing.

On Matchday 1 Nick Walsh and Steven McLean colluded to deny Celtic a penalty against Hearts when Michael Smith handled a pass into the penalty box from James Forrest.

John Beaton took the farce a step further at the weekend with the SFA forced to u-turn on a u-turn.

Tony Watt clearly pulled out of a challenge at an early stage even through Motherwell’s Sean Goss collapsed onto the ground in anticipated agony.

Beaton saw it clearly, took no action then was summoned over to the VAR monitor and viewed contact that he hadn’t noticed in real time.

Watt was sent off, Dundee United lost the match but today the SFA removed the red card freeing the striker for Saturday’s match- against Celtic.