VAR still gets more right than wrong but the SFA are making it harder and harder to argue to make the case for its defence
When Scottish football first rolled out its poundstretcher version of VAR only the most naive or gullible would have imagined that the game in this country was about to enter into some sort of refereeing panacea. The truth is, it was never going to be that easy. But even the old dog chewed cynics among us would have predicted Scottish football could make it quite this hard.
Not through choice it must be said. On the contrary, Collum does his best to protect his people from the blast. And yet he could do nothing else but cut Walsh loose without dragging himself and the rest of Clydesdale House even deeper into the dog dirt. And yet still Walsh stuck to his guns, ignoring his colleagues while seeing precisely what he wanted to see in order to vindicate his decision. All of which flies in the face of what this technology is supposed to be about.
That unprecedented plot twist seemed like a highly peculiar intervention even at the time. It became completely inconceivable when Diomande’s red card was then overturned days later by those same beaks on Hampden’s sixth floor.
Scottish Football Association Rangers FC Mohamed Diomande Dundee United FC St Mirren FC Scottish Premiership Willie Collum
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