Darrell Currie has called out Willie Collum’s VAR Review as a shambles.
Friday’s whitewash was an incredible performance as the SFA’s Head of Refereeing worked his way around recent incidents with the help of his media pal Gordon Duncan.
Celtic fans were angered but not surprised that four key incidents in their League Cup victory were whites washed. On the show Collum spent his time answering the angry statements that have been coming out of Ibrox since their defeat.
FOUR HAMPDEN INCIDENTS
Did we get a frame by frame breakdown of the lines and decision to disallow Nicky Raskin’s own goal? Not a chance.
A slow motion run through of Mohamed Diomande kneeing Tony Ralston on the head? Forget it.
A couple of angles of Mikey Moore running straight at Reo Hatate to send him groundwards in the penalty box? Dream on.
Frame by frame coverage of Derek Cornlius raising his right arm to block a cross from Michel Ange Balikwisha? Still waiting.
After the VAR Review covered the League Cup Final it went to the St Mirren v Hibs match, the ‘goal’ disallowed by the dubious Andrew Dallas lines.
For someone in the mainstream these are strong words from Currie. Following on the claims made by Michael Stewart.
What on earth is going on??
This is a shambles. https://t.co/GWJzaY8tef— Darrell Currie (@darrellcurrietv) November 15, 2025
Currie and Stewart made strong claims about the VAR decision in Paisley. And the excuses trotted out by honest Willie Collum.
For Celtic fans thoughts moved a week earlier to Hampden and the own goal from Raskin. Steven McLean & Dallas came up with lines that cleared up nothing.
RASKIN OWN GOAL
Those VAR lines were from the South Stand side of Hampden. Why?
They weren’t in line with play. Why?
Was the image used when the ball left Ben Nygren’s foot? Inconclusive
Currie decided to side step round the decisions from Hampden but the discussion with Stewart exposes the failings of VAR.
In September 2024 Dallas produced a debatable VAR line to disallow a ‘goal’ from Kyogo Furuhashi in the Glasgow Derby.
Every month UEFA use proper VAR equipment in Scottish football grounds. It is then removed to allow Dallas, McLean and others to make critical decisions.
Hopefully St Mirren can shame Celtic by making an official compliant and demanding full answers from the SFA. Not a scripted deflection exercise through Motherwell fan Gordon Duncan.
Huge questions to answer.
1. Why does the red line move?Fundamentally undermines the whole decision. Red line is the attacking player, it CANNOT be in a different position.
2. Why does it appear the video has 10 seconds missing?
Full transparency please @ScottishFA https://t.co/FPRoAsYPEI pic.twitter.com/y5mjhBvhuG
— Michael Stewart (@mstewart_23) November 15, 2025
In the Rangers game Hatate was given offside after the ball went out for a corner to Celtic. No corner! Hatate was roughly in line with the CelticTV camera and he looked onside.
In the Kilmarnock game, offside was given against Celtic, but you could see and judge clearly, from the distance of the two players legs from the eighteen yard line of the penalty box, the Celtic player was clearly on, the camera being roughly in line with the play.
So, it is not just VAR, it’s the AR’s that are giving wrong decisions against us!
SACK THE SCUMBAGS DALLAS AND MCLEAN AND THE REST SCOTTISH FOOTBALL IS CORRUPT TO SUIT THE NEWCO CHEATS AT LIEBROX OUR I CAN SEE THE FANS TURNING ON THE CHEATS IN BLACK NEWCO ALWAYS NEED A HAND TO WON TITLES AND CUPS JUST LOOK BACK AT THERE EBT SIDELETTERS YEARS RATS
Like the referee’s the VAR is a total joke. StMirren have paid the price twice against both Edinburgh clubs. No wonder Scottish referee’s don’t get picked for european championship’s or world cups . Circus and clowns comes to mind.
Michael stewart has already been slapped down by Maxwell. So, where is he going to go with this?
It just ends up back at the SFA … again!
Great point that first one maister – But I’d be loathe to refer to those dead bastards as ‘Rangers’
Always Sevco for me !