With all of the cameras available from Sky Sports Dallas was unable to come up with evidence that Scales was offside.
Willie Collum is also a product of the Lanarkshire Refereeing Association. Now the Head of Refereeing at the SFA, Collum makes all of the appointments for SPFL Premiership matches. He knows exactly what Andrew and Hugh Dallas are.
Post match Premier Sports and BBC Scotland had exclusive interviews with Martin O’Neill. Neither asked his thoughts on the first half penalty incident. Neither did anyone at the all in media conference.
Stewart doesn’t like being forced to apologise, he could be the person to crack the veil of secrecy surrounding the SFA and their home made VAR verdicts.
Of course Premier Sports didn’t want to know. Referee Walsh can be excused for missing it, he was dealing with Nicky Raskin moaning about the assault on Kenny. No excuses for McLean and Andrew Dallas on VAR duty, those incidents are what they are paid for.
There appears not to have been a single incident in the match referred to VAR where Andrew Dallas was in control and in contact with his close friend John Beaton with both men owing their careers to Hugh Dallas and the dominant Lanarkshire Refereeing Association.
The VAR and AVAR agree on that, they imput it, they work with the video operator from Hawkeye, they actually help to input the lines. The VAR will say move the lines left, move the line right to put it in the right position.
Rarely has someone had such an inappropriate job title, communicating outside an ‘elite’ but dwindling group of legacy media outlets is something that Jamieson hasn’t gone near in over 20 years on the Celtic payroll.
What isn’t beyond question is the two lines used in the image given to Sky Sports. The blue line from Souttar’s shoulder towards the pitch leans slightly towards the defender, the red line from Kuhn leans slightly away from him.
No one is asking the officials to disclose the team they support publicly.
It’s absolutely bizarre to defend supporters of a team refereeing their teams games. No matter how fair the refs are, it isn’t seen to be fair.