This week Ryan Edwards sees red as he repeats Liel Abada attack on Andy Halliday

The main requirement of most folk inside football is for consistency in decision making.

Unfortunately alongside the introduction of VAR the SFA and their messengers have been promoting discretion and interpretation to justify referees coming up with whatever decision suits them game by game.

Last week against Celtic Ryan Edwards got lucky, on Saturday against Hearts justice caught up with him.

At home to Celtic he went over the ball to warn off Liel Abada, while in possession the Dundee United defender kicked his opponent in full view of Don Robertson and VAR Euan Anderson with no action taken.

Earlier in the second half Kieran Freeman escaped a second yellow card for deliberate handball in the penalty box.

Trying the same stunt at Tynecastle had very different consequences for Edwards. With Andy Halliday his victim Nick Walsh stopped play then produced a red card on the guidance from Chris Graham on VAR after a look at the pitch-side monitor.

VAR isn’t the issue in Scotland, it is the way that referees apply the Laws of the Game knowing that whatever decision they come up with they’ll remain on the circuit for a very well paid hobby.

??’I think he knows what he’s doing there. That could have quite easily been a broken leg’ ?

Neil McCann and Richard Foster discuss Ryan Edwards red card ???#BBCFootball pic.twitter.com/aiNDsKK5Vu

— BBC Sport Scotland (@BBCSportScot) February 5, 2023

Possible red card review.
No red card was the decision. pic.twitter.com/YvzsSS6TSa

— Lint (@Zeshankenzo) January 29, 2023