Radio Clyde gets very forgetful over the Jota VAR ‘malfunction’

Gordon Duncan was very keen to promote yesterday’s news from Aberdeen as the first ever malfunction of VAR in Scottish football.

After the weather outrages from angry bears on Super Scoreboard the show got round to something much more meaningful and important to fans of 11 Premiership clubs.

The day before John Beaton’s ‘puzzling’ performance at Ibrox Aberdeen were the victims of VAR as they battle against being involved in the relegation play off.

Peter Leven’s side found the net in the 92d minute away to Livingston but after a VAR check the goal was disallowed.

These things happen but on this occasion it just so happened that the Hawkeye version used by the SFA failed to function. The proper VAR check couldn’t be carried out so the VAR and match referee studied a still image and decided that there was a Dons player offside and disallowed the goal.

The full facts only emerged on Tuesday after Aberdeen held a meeting at Hampden to demand answers, something that Michael Nicholson has so far refused to do.

It seems that Duncan had forgotten all about the Jota incident from the first month of VAR which is strange since it involved his team, Motherwell.

The match was on PPV from Motherwell with a very long range camera used since the camera on the 18 yard line wasn’t working. David Dickinson on VAR informed Willie Collum who didn’t require a second invite to disallow a ‘goal’ from Celtic to make the match safe.

As usual the cover up from the SFA was bigger than the actual error, on their own website they reassured fans that Jota was offside when he received the ball, supporters with the most basic knowledge of the Laws of the Game know that offside is decided when the ball is played, not received.

Meanwhile despite almost two years of using VAR no Scottish officials will be anywhere near the European Championships this summer.

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