Simon Donnelly has hit out at the length of time that it took for Celtic to be awarded a penalty during the Scottish Cup win over St Mirren.
Liel Abada’s hot from eight yards out was blocked by the arm of Richard Taylor but Steven McLean declined to award a penalty.
Colin Steven on VAR got play halted, checked the incident from a variety of angles then requested McLean to take a look on the pitch-side monitor.
After a further minute reviewing the incident McLean finally awarded a penalty with Taylor red carded.
Watching Sportscene last night, The Sun reports Donnelly saying:
In the letter of the law it’s a penalty. I just don’t think the lad means it though and that’s where the red card comes about.
It’s going in from Abada I think – but I don’t think he means it. He’s sliding in to block it and then there’s the usual three or four minutes of VAR to decide it and then he is set off.
Despite a four minute delay, other VAR incidents and injuries plus four stoppages for substitutions McLean only added on five minutes of stoppage time.
Celtic made good use of the limited stoppage time with Matt O’Riley and Reo Hatate both scoring beyond the 90.
