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.
Prior to the shirt pull Sam Lammers had blocked Gartenmann as he moved to track the ball, an incident that Dallas decided to overlook, as did Walsh.
After a pause another ‘goal’ was disallowed, a minute or so later Sky Sports released the dodgiest of images, taken at an angle after the ball had been kicked by Bernardo.
Last season Andy Walker gave the game away when he revealed that the Sky Sports commentary team have a live feed to the conversation between the VAR and match referee.
A very quick VAR review was carried out with Sky Sports listening in. One replay of the incident was shown with the message going out from Dallas that the ball struck him in the t-shirt area of the body.