Early in the second half Sky Sports replayed the handball incident, highlighting that Sima was offside when the cross was made, later on VAR lines were produced to justify the decision but the timing seemed strange.
Aitken and Andrew Dallas are both full time with the SFA, Dallas will be looking in on Wednesday’s Edinburgh Derby at Easter Road which is his first appointment since the League Cup Final on December 17.
Gordon has been getting eased out the door at BBC Scotland by the ever-staunch Macintyre, it looks like the Aberdeen fan is embarking on the slow goodbye that Jim Spence went through a decade ago.
A recent match between Eintracht Frankfurt and Borussia Dortmund included two errors over 90 minutes, according to the SFA an error occurs in one match out of 135!
The SFA have no such controls for Scottish football which has resulted in the Lanarkshire and Glasgow Referee Associations supplying most of the officials involved in top level matches with other areas virtually written off.
Goldson has benefited more than most from Beaton’s interpretation of the Laws of the Game, however he uses his arms and hands to control the ball there will be an explanation ‘leaked’ to Sportscene and other media messengers.
John Lundstram is not interested in the ball, all he is doing is looking at our player, and he blocks him, and it gets given as VAR as a penalty.
Was it a foul? Yes. Did VAR get it right? Yes. But should it ever have been looked at in the first place? Give me a break.
Soon after the VAR verdict was delivered Viaplay Sport briefly showed the image used with their commentary team not convinced either way.
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.