Dundee United are reported to be making a formal complaint to the SFA and demanding a VAR summit.
Since being introduced in mid October VAR has exposed just how bad standards are among Scottish referees, even doubling up with the benefit of video technology more honest mistakes than ever are cropping up.
After throwing their doors open to the media in advance of the introduction of VAR the SFA have closed ranks with Ian Maxwell and Crawford Allan only making the briefest of comments to approved, on message outlets.
At one end of the table all of the stops are being pulled out to keep Micky Beale’s side in touch with Celtic but at the other end of the Premiership relegation could easily be decided by one of the baffling decisions seen over the weekend.
The Sun reports.
DUNDEE UNITED are to demand an urgent summit of Premiership clubs with the SFA, SPFL and refs chiefs following another weekend of VAR chaos.
United are furious that ref Craig Napier and VAR Colin Steven gave a penalty for an alleged foul by Loick Ayina in a 1-1 draw with St Mirren.
Tannadice chiefs are convinced Buddies forward Curtis Main initiated contact before falling over — and the officials were wrong even after watching the replays back numerous times.
United have already made their anger known to figures at the SFA and referees boss Crawford Allan, but believe the problems run far deeper than simply in their match.
So in the next 24 hours they will lodge a formal complaint, with a clear demand for all clubs to be given the opportunity to sit down with the relevant authorities to discuss their growing concerns.
United know there is huge anger at other Premiership clubs about how the video technology is being deployed.
No Scottish referees have been selected for knock-out ties in any of the three UEFA competitions despite having Hugh Dallas in place.
This season seven penalties have been awarded against Celtic in the SPFL, in January 2022 Kevin Clancy was the last referee to award a penalty against the Ibrox Tribute Act.
We’ve had a “Referees Summit” before between the SPL club managers and the SFA.
No minutes or actions werre communicated: it was just a talking shop.
With any new discussion with the SFA about match officiating standards,
the Agenda should start with;
“1. Both UEFA & FIFA no longer use Scottish match officials in their international tournaments. This is independent confirmation that the quality of Scottish match officials is unacceptable. These quality issue need to be addressed as a matter of urgency – for the benefit of Scottish football. Agreed?”
VAR is just confirming what we have all known for far too long.
But hey, but don’t worry: our SFA CEO, Ian Maxwell has got this… 🙁
Bout time this Farce was exposed its an embarrassment to Fair Play.
They are deliberately trying to sabotage VAR as it exposes them massively – Then they can revert back to “honest mistakes” and they (And Sevco) can live happily ever after…
The BBC Sportscene Huns or The VAR Huns doctored these lines on Saturday as I’m visiting the family, they have live pause and I was able to easily ascertain that Sakala was well offside !
Honest mistakes, hmm and Boris Johnston is 100% telling the truth hmm.
SFA won’t do anything, the inner circles keep the secret society secret, only way out of this mess is to hire officials from neighbouring countries to take control of matches.
Match officials arriving at same time as a certain team? Match officials training youngsters at a certain training base? Match officials meeting up with a certain team after matches? Where is the neutral aspect of honest sporting integrity in Scotland.
Unfortunately the whole world now sees how wrong our little goldfish league is run, no one will take over the teams in Scotland unless the are comfortable and know the sheikhmahawn type investor.