'Scotland’s national game is always teetering on the brink of meltdown'// Detroit67Book
The introduction of VAR is unlikely to end the furious debate over refereeing in Scotland
Last week began with football’s commentariat, getting into an excited lather about following two Scottish teams in the Nirvana-land of the Champions League, only to see both rinsed by much better teams.Despite the hype that greeted their first round of games, Celtic were thrashed by the mighty Real Madrid and Rangers returned from Amsterdam, humbled by Ajax.
Brazenly, too many people employed in the top tier of Scottish football feel able to make these comments irrespective of the local realities, or the financial crisis most fans are facing.Behind the scenes, a different kind of meltdown has been gripping the senior administrators of Scottish football, as a new money-spinning television deal with Sky was endangered by Rangers refusing to co-operate with the terms of the deal.
VAR will come to Scottish league football after the Qatar World Cup finals in December and is also set to be introduced in the League Cup semi-finals and final in January and February of next year. “The parallels with Brexit are irresistible, he continued. “We changed from a system that was certainly imperfect but largely worked well for many years and gave us many freedoms, to a system that made everything more difficult, more frustrating, more limiting and just plain worse.”
Many fans, some of whom have shifted from being VAR advocates to pure sceptics, are asking a very simple question. If VAR is there to address “clear and obvious errors” why does it take up to four minutes to review, numerous camera angles to adjudicate, and in some cases the use of mathematical software to calculate lines of play?
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