VAR went into near meltdown on Christmas Eve with bungling referees, assistants and VAR officials all getting in on the act.
At Tannadice Colin Steven had to overturn two penalty decisions between Hearts and Dundee United including awarding one against Craig Gordon who was left with a badly broken leg.
There were howlers at St Mirren v Aberdeen and Hibs v Livingston while Kevin Clancy and his team at the Celtic match looked like they had just been introduced to the Laws of the Game.
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In the fifth minute Kyogo Furuhashi appeared to have headed Celtic into the lead, St Johnstone ‘keeper Remi Matthews came from a long way back to push the ball away, to those watching on Celtic TV it seemed like the ball had judged edged over the line.
Assistant referee Alan Mulvanny didn’t think so but midway through the second half he wrongly flagged for offside at the St Johnstone goal. Was that his only mistake of the match?
BBC Scotland and Sky Sports covered the match but neither seemed prepared to offer viewers a close up of the incident. They might not have Goal Line Technology but they could have slowed it down and zoomed in, for their own reasons they decided not to.
“…for their hun reasons they chose not to.” you mean….
We ain’t akways going to have the cushion of a 2 or 3 goal advantage and at some point pardon the pun but in a game at 0-0 these goals will chopped off and cost us points.
Yes, because it would have resulted in a goal for Celtic, no doubt!
You are being generous saying that Clancy has been introduced to the Laws of the game.
He is like a rotten driver, who has never even heard of The Highway Code!
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