Scottish FA head of referee operations Willie Collum condemns the VAR decision not to award Rangers a penalty in their Scottish League Cup final loss to Celtic.
Scottish FA head of referee operations Willie Collum says VAR made a 'really, really poor' and 'unacceptable' decision not to award Rangers a penalty against Celtic in Sunday's Scottish League Cup final. The Ibrox side, who lost the final on penalties after a 3-3 draw, were awarded a free-kick in extra time when Liam Scales was penalised for a pull on Vaclav Cerny very near the edge of the Celtic area, the free-kick not resulting in a goal.
Collum said the VAR officials moved 'far too quickly' in their analysis of the incident and were 'not forensic enough'.\'We need to now understand why did we get it wrong and how do we make things better, how do we improve, what's the lessons learned from this incident because people will find it very hard to accept this error. Very difficult to accept it. 'It's a really, really poor decision. It's an unacceptable decision. The VAR team know that, everyone in refereeing knows it. 'We will do our very, very best through our coaching, through our analysis to make sure an incident like this never happens again. But it's a mistake, it's a bad mistake. 'When you look at the TV pictures here, this is not a difficult decision for the VAR team. They are not forensic enough in the analysis. They move far too quickly. 'I think they're thrown because the majority of the Rangers player's body is outside the penalty are but that's irrelevant because it's the holding that they should be judging and they should be making sure they get a clear image to show them that continues into the penalty area.'Collum commented: 'There's a holding incident we need to assess here. The holding's the key part of this decision, it's really, really important. 'There's been a lot said about the Rangers player has a foot on penalty line. The foot here is irrelevant here. It's about the holding and the holding only because that's where the contact i
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