One year on from their first domestic match under VAR Celtic will again have Nick Walsh in charge when they visit Tynecastle on Sunday.
Under Ange Postecoglou Walsh twice went to the monitor to award Hearts penalties after being prompted by Steven McLean on VAR duty. On Sunday Andrew Dallas will be watching on the screens from Clydesdale House.
Celtic managed to overcome a hat-trick from Lawrence Shankland a year ago to win 4-3 but that match set the tone for VAR with relegation strugglers Ross County and Dundee United being awarded penalties at Celtic Park before the World Cup break..
Postecoglou kept Celtic on a winning run despite the interference from VAR with his successor facing the toughest week since returning to Scotland in June.
Hearts on Sunday is followed by Atletico Madrid on Wednesday followed by a return trip to Edinburgh on Saturday to face Hibs.
Full points from those matches will put Celtic into a very strong position with the first batch of fixtures seeing Brendan Rodgers take his side away to the sides that finished in second to sixth place in last season’s SPFL Premiership.
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? Ange Postecoglou couldn’t believe it when Celtic were not awarded a penalty after claims for a handball against Michael Smith. Was that the right call? ?? pic.twitter.com/aY9LoXrnsX
— Sky Sports Scotland (@ScotlandSky) October 22, 2022
Aye – They are most certainly trolling The Hoops for sure…
Will (when the inevitable happens) Lawwell or Nicholson have even a tiny bit of the balls and brass that Mulraney of The SFA had in his Letter of complaint to UEFA did ?
Not a snowballs chance in hell of that –
There’s more chance of Miller (Kenny) stringing together two coherent sentences than our custodians saying a peep – so that’s absolutely none !
The celtic board had the opportunity to expose the whole rotten corrupt system that exists in this league. It was there for the rest of europe to see the bias incompetence of the football authorities it was a stonewaller not even up for debate.
The celtic board had the opportunity to expose the whole rotten corrupt system that exists in this league. It was there for the rest of europe to see the bias incompetence of the football authorities it was a stonewaller not even up for debate.
VAR is more ways to cheat!
It shouldn’t be and wouldn’t be if our board had a mi-nute bit of the balls that The Sevco and The SFA boards have in flagging these things up…
But of course our mob can’t and won’t !