Kyogo v Silva- the consistent inconsistencies of Crawford Allan’s elite VAR officials

At Livingston last Sunday Kyogo Furuhashi was wiped out in the penalty box by Micky Devlin who never got near the ball.

At Ibrox a week later Fabio Silva dived into the boot of Alistair Johnston after the defender had got a toe to the ball to slightly change its direction.

Using the same Laws of the Game and trained by Crawford Allan the two incidents were judged very differently from VAR HQ.

No Scottish referees will be going to the European Championships in Germany this summer, the fourth successive major tournament without anyone from the SFA after Willie Collum’s brief appearance at Euro 16 ended his prospects of reaching the elite level of the game.

Kris Boyd’s reaction is a side show, the man from Tarbolton is on Sky Sports to provide them with nods from the knuckle-dragging demographic.

This morning the SFA will announce the officials for the weekend fixtures, Celtic are expected to get a low profile referee and VAR before things are cranked up for the five post-split fixtures.