VAR has taken centre stage once again in the Scottish Premiership after it affected Celtic’s result against Rangers on Sunday.
It’s now three days on and all the chat is still about John Beaton and his VAR team and how they got duped by Fabio Silvia’s dive.
However, it’s not that I want to talk about tonight because tonight is about the decisions they turned a blind eye to, namely a clear stamp on Cameron Carter-Vickers.
The man mountain of a defender does not go down lightly and when Rangers’ Tom Lawrence goes charging in and Carter-Vickers stays down, you know the tackle is serious.
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Look at John Beaton’s angle. He was less than ten yards away, no immediate obstructions but yet didn’t deem that tackle dangerous.
Even the replay shown by Sky Sports was wrong as the challenge Carter-Vickers was unhappy with was not the one that was broadcast.
VAR missed the opportunity to ask him to have a look at it again but yet found it in them to pull play back and check a challenge with the most lightest of contact to penalise Celtic.
It’s an embarrassing slant on the standard of refereeing in Scotland and just shows how the video technology is used so inconsistently.
It annoys the fans to such an extent that we now have brilliant analysts like Alan Morrison now collating compelling evidence of a pattern of assistance that seems to favour Rangers.
