At the weekend we saw the contrasting approach of VAR officials in the Scottish game.
On Friday Jon Moss decided to resign as the VAR Manager of the SFA for an as yet unknown life changing job. Hanging about at Hampden could also be described as life changing.
Half an hour into their away match at St Johnstone on Saturday it seemed that Daizen Maeda had given Celtic the lead with a spectacular 12 yard volley.
Alan Muir on VAR duty was quickly on the job, noting a collision between Graham Carey and Auston Trusty, these things happen in a packed penalty are with no aggression shown by either player with no impact on the move that led to a ‘goal’.
That was enough for Muir to order a full review, Don Robertson shuffled over to the monitor at the side of the pitch with no one in any doubt that the match was about to restart with a free-kick to St Johnstone, it did.
It’s not that hard a job, surely? ? pic.twitter.com/2GimYKrwCT
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After finding the courage to award a penalty against John Souttar for an obvious handball in the penalty box Kevin Clancy appeared to think that his job was done at Ibrox.
The penalty struck by Mykola Kukharevych was truly woeful but whether it is good, bad or different the Laws of the Game state that the goalkeeper must be on the goal-line when the ball is struck.
In the VAR room, studying the image shown above Clancy decided not to order a retake, no Scottish officials were involved at the 2024 European Championships in Germany.
Cheating Hun Bastards but when the Sheep dae them & go 8 pts clear ae them watch them IMPLODE BIG TIME!!
I’m sure their no4 encroached the 18 yard box before cooker aim shit struck the pen. And possibly ugly kid mccausland on the same side as Walsh. Cheating fekers.
Its over to you Hibs,the evidence is there.
And HIBS said…what…??
Hee-haw, Terence. Exactly the same as Lawwell & Co. on Saturday. Colour me surprised.
Hail Hail.
You can’t blame the referee for that decision.
People moan about VAR but the technology isn’t the problem, it’s the officials.
I said before it’s introduction that it would show our officials up for what they are: incompetent or biased.
When officials in the VAR room with many views and multiple angles are still getting things wrong then clearly something is not right.
Is VAR mandated across all European leagues now, by UEFA?
Or, do leagues still have a choice?
Our clubs should loudly demand clear, measurable improvements in the
standard of match officiating,
or they’ll simply pull the funding for VAR,
and our match officials might never be involved in a game outside Scotland
ever again?
That should motivate them…?
I think that you will find that the var officials were still celebrating the save, so understandably forgot to check that the rules had been followed.
Another game changing decision goes their way which mystifies all the retired ref pundits from England etc
I watch prem games and often some euro lge games like Spain n Germany etc.
When I see the way they demonstrate the VAR decisions, often very quickly after the event, lines in place, all angle zooming in….it makes me wonder what kind of VAR system is the SPFL operating?
Is it Fisher Price? Cos it sure ain’t anything like we see in other leagues, its almost as if the easiest manipulated option has been chosen rather than the best out there.
Until the CLUBS themselves start demanding explanations…we keyboard warriors are wasting our time. No one’s interested.There’s a law for them and a different one for everyone else.. but Silence seems to be Golden.
Editor: Agreed, we can only highlight and maybe at some stage embarrass a club into demanding answers, the silence of the offended clubs just encourages the SFA to push further.