On Monday afternoon the Ibrox media messengers were informed that new Ibrox CEO Paddy Stewart had contacted the SFA on the issue, today the former Manchester United man gave an in-house interview with the Scotsman jumping to conclusions from very bland, non-committal comments:
At Tynecastle in March Beaton was quick to spot a ‘handball’ by Tomoki Iwata, called Don Robertson over for a VAR review with the decision to award a penalty inevitable. At Hampden in May he was much more reluctant to get involved.
There’s a new VAR show where there’s a transparency level of what’s been seen before. There’s a new process where clubs can question the decisions of referees and on-field decisions. And all of that is transparent.
Scott has ticked the boxes to get his first Ibrox appointment from the SFA, he wasn’t going to jeopardise his ascent up the ranks with Aitken on hand just to make sure that he came to the right decisions.
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.
In the summer of 2022 the SFA created two full time VAR roles, the recruitment policy is unclear but Aitken and Andrew Dallas got the jobs which puts them in charge of most televised matches from the VAR room.
The SFA employ two full-time VAR officials, the men that get the majority of the big match TV appointments, Greg Aitken and Andrew Dallas.Five days a week they work on their job, the Laws of the Game and how they can ensure that the decisions from the match officials are…
In charge of the Glasgow Derby at Ibrox in April the man from the Crown Bar in Bellshill had a bigger influence on the result than any of the home players.