Robbie Neilson aims his anger at Nick Walsh

Robbie Neilson has hit out at Nick Walsh for not prompting Alan Muir into sending off Alexandro Bernabei.

Midway through the first half of last night’s defeat from Celtic Nathan Atkinson was fouled by the Celtic defender, received treatment then recovered to play the full 90 minutes despite Neilson making five substitutions.

It was a comprehensive win for the home side despite Hearts getting the benefit of the doubt with some dubious looking VAR lines allowing Josh Ginnelly to open the scoring in the sixth minute.

Before the Bernabei foul referee Alan Muir had kept his cards in his pocket despite brutal challenges from Cammy Devlin and James Hill in the early stages.

Walsh was on VAR duty last night with Radio Clyde reporting Neilson’s anger over the Bernabei incident:

To be honest I thought it was a shambles, the whole thing. First time I have ever seen no yellow card but it goes to a VAR for serious foul play.

I’m sure Alan will look at it and firstly be disappointed with his own decision but secondly that he wasn’t asked to go and look at the VAR screen because I think, if he goes and sees it, it’s maybe a different outcome.

But usually you come to Parkhead and need a decapitation before you get a red card against them. It wasn’t to be. It was nearly a leg off but if the head came off we might have got it.

For periods of the game I thought we played really well. Our shape was great, we pressed really well but the most pleasing thing was we passed the ball very well.

There were passages of play where we popped the ball through them and very rarely do you see that at Parkhead.

Walsh was on VAR duty last night, back in October Neilson had no complaints about the PE teacher when he awarded Hearts two penalties against Celtic while ignoring a clear handball when Michael Smith handled a pass from James Forrest deep inside his own penalty box.