Ewan Murray

I am all for people that have missed something dramatic in a game that constitutes something they should have a look at.

But when a referee sees the incident himself and then what he's been asked to do is, no, you didn't see that, you saw something else.

That has got to be debilitating for a referee.

It has got to be.

In time they won't need a referee.

VAR will do it from wherever they are doing it from because that is what they did.

Brackets in this instance.

Someone's speaking about the re-refereeing of a game.

Who was that?

It was Martin O'Neill in February when Celtic had a player sent off and he believed that the game was being re-refereed.

That was his point of view then.

So, yeah, sorry, the overall VAR point.

I have two... I've had this issue for a long time, so I'm not...

crying foul after last night I have two fundamental issues with VAR in Scotland one Scottish football was supposed to be all about the supporter experience the in-game experience the fan attending the match they make great play of that and they made embarrassing great play of that during Covid times

and a bid to get fans back in the grounds and raise money.

VAR in Scotland materially undermines the match attending experience, and I say that as a paying customer who does it, not a journalist.

And the other thing is, Scotland doesn't have enough referees to spread them even more thin with VAR.

So it doesn't have enough capable referees for the top fight in the country.

So when you bring in VAR...

and you need them for VAR duties, assistant VAR duties, plus what they're doing on the pitch, it's obvious you're going to diminish the standard of refereeing.