Chris Sutton wipes out Savage and Beaton with his VAR verdict

Chris Sutton has turned on Robbie Savage after a trolling exercise by the former Welsh internationalist.

After checking out from Sky Sports yesterday Sutton was teaming up with Savage on BBC 5 Live! where they share their views on the weekend action spiced up with discussion with callers to the show.

The lunchtime 3-3 draw from Ibrox certainly gathered plenty of attention with VAR assisted penalty decision early in the second half the biggest talking point.

In real time John Beaton awarded Fabio Silva a yellow card but after being prompted to review the incident on the monitor the match referee felt that he had made a clear and obvious error with the booking cancelled and the home side awarded a penalty.

When James Tavernier converted from 12 yards out the entire complex of the game changed.

Whatever Sutton’s view is on any incident Savage inevitably goes in the opposite direction to ensure lively debate on the airwaves, listening in to BBC 5 Live! last night the Daily Record reported the former Celtic striker saying:

There has to be sufficient contact, Rob. He went down all afternoon. There were many incidents before that and he goes down again.

He is awarded a yellow card for simulation. Was it a clear and obvious error? Was there sufficient contact, Rob? Come on. You are just saying that.

In terms of cards handed out by Beaton there were four yellows for Celtic players and none for the home team, with 46% possession Celtic committed 23 fouls and were awarded 10 free kicks.