John Beaton has his say on VAR and reveals 'crushing blow' on early refereeing career
Needless to say, this is not how the Scottish FA are trumpeting the belated if not universally anticipated roll-out of VAR in Scottish club football, with Hibs and St Johnstone the first willing guinea pigs on Friday night in their cinch Premiership match. Perhaps it was the optics of having to study their own errors in public that explains why Premier League referees simply ignored the VAR monitor for the first few years, happy to take the word of the Stockley Park video operator that they had messed things up.
That won’t be happening in Scotland, however. Following FIFA protocols closer than their English counterparts, anyone officiating at a Premiership match – and cup semi-finals and finals – will be expected to trot over and look for themselves should VAR flag up something they believe merits subsequent attention.
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