Serious concerns- Celtic announce double challenge to SFA

Celtic have responded quickly to the events at Tynecastle with a two pronged attack on the officiating in the match.

A simple announcement that they were appealing against the 15th minute red card for Yang would be the usual procedure but Celtic followed that up by questioning VAR.

In October 2022 the SFA introduced VAR technology to the domestic game with a burst of fixtures followed by a five week World Cup break to draw breath and review how it was operating.

Strangely the SFA opted to keep communications to a minimum, there was no explanations about how VAR was operating based on live examples where there was confusion between the match official and the office based VAR:

Late this afternoon Celtic stated:

Celtic Football Club can confirm that it will be appealing the red card issued to Hyunjun Yang during Sunday’s match against Hearts at Tynecastle.

We have also written to the SFA to raise our serious concerns regarding the use of VAR and the decisions made within the match. 

As we have said before, for some time Celtic has sought to work with the footballing authorities with the aim of improving standards associated with refereeing and the use of VAR in Scotland, something which is clearly in the wider interests of everyone within the game.

While Celtic appeal against the decision on Yang they are likely to find Brendan Rodgers having to answer a disrepute charge for his post match comments.

In various interviews the Celtic boss mentioned John Beaton and questioned his competence even though the final decisions were all on Don Robertson after he had been prompted to review incidents on the VAR monitor.