Steve Clarke has hit out at referee Tobias Stieler after he watched Scotland hammered 4-1 by France in a friendly last night in Lille.
The scoreline could have been much higher if France had moved out of third gear against opponents that included Liam Kelly, Nathan Patterson, Jack Hendry and John Souttar.
After taking a surprise lead through Billy Gilmour Scotland found themselves trailing 2-1 heading towards the break when the French were awarded a corner.
From the delivery there were about three fouls committed by despairing Scotland defenders but it took a VAR call to bring the issues to the attention of the match referee.
Eventually Kylian Mbappe sent his penalty past Kelly to put the French 3-1 in front with Clarke telling The Sun how unhappy he was with the VAR decision:
The third one which probably kills the game was a really soft penalty decision.
I don’t know why VAR has to get involved. I don’t know why the referee isn’t strong enough to say ‘I’ll stick with my original decision’ which was to let play go on. And then it is difficult.
There was one more French goal after the break as Scotland lost their third successive match with matches next month against Georgia and Norway giving them the chance to stop the rot.
The SFA has quietly dropped their demand for a UEFA explanation over Scott McTominay’s disallowed ‘goal’ against Spain.
As the advert goes I’m luvin it.Clarke and the SFA going off their nut about VAR,to me it’s a taste of their own medicine and they don’t like.
Talk about DOUBLE STANDARDS.
Well, Well, Well – If ever there was a beautiful week of what goes around comes around…
It doesn’t have any adverse effect on Scotland in a friendly and neither did it in the competitive defeat to Spain as Scotland have qualified (Congratulations to Stevie Clarke, Cal-mac and Co. but ABSOLUTELY NOT THE SFA) –
However it won’t do Maxwell and Co. one bit of harm as Scud Missile says – ‘A bit of their own medicine’ !
Was it possible for Scotland to have qualified out of a more easier group (Spain apart but stagnant), for Germany next year ? Then when they play friendlies against the English and France and when Spain was ripe to fall ,got found out . Expect an absolute torrent of feel good factor fables from the SMSM leading up to the Euros next Summer ,as there will be more scoops there than fans ,all on a jolly boys outing ! It’ll be who are Scotland going to meet in the quarter finals propaganda tales coming from the haemor, sorry , tabloids and pushing for as many the Rangers players as possible for the squad .