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.
Mohamed Diomanse, as he had done the previous month at Ibrox seemed to have a particular gripe with Reo Hatate, spending the entire match trying to inflict injury on the Celtic midfielder.
I think they have just guessed that big Zander’s (Clark) foot is there but I want to give the advantage to the attacker. I am going to let that one go, which will please all the Celtic fans who are at home listening.
The benefit of spinning to someone like Macintyre is that he isn’t going to question what he has been told and will loyally parrot out the required message without any follow up questions.
Rather than deal with the refereeing and security issues directly Celtic turned to their favourite tactic, telling their media pals how really really angry they were while knowing that neither Nicholson or Peter Lawwell would dare to say a word against the SFA.
With less than a dozen first team appearances to his name McCausland dive was just too obvious, it was embarrassing but not as embarrassing as the decisions taken by the match officials.
Imagine the boost Celtic’s title hopes would get it John Beaton and Don Robertson were removed from their rota for the eight remaining matches?