Celtic’s 6-0 win over St Johnstone at the weekend was a game leaving the fans mostly talking about the display of scintillating football Brendan Rodgers’ side had just put on.
Celtic were pretty much flawless as they knocked six past a shellshocked St Johnstone side who just couldn’t handle the Scottish champions.
Five different goal-scorers ensure that for the third game in a row, Celtic hit five or more goals against the opposition, and Rodgers’ side hit their 20th goal of the season without reply in the Scottish Premiership.
But, in reality, the goal tally should have been more as Daizen Maeda had a goal wrongly chalked off by VAR. That’s according to former SFA referee, Des Roache.
The ‘best view’ of Celtic goal wasn’t shown to referee
Whilst Roache admitted that he can understand why VAR reviewed Maeda’s goal, he did question why the ‘best view’ of the goal wasn’t shown to match referee, Don Roberston.
Roache told the Behind The Whistles podcast, “I think the most telling view was the one that we didn’t see. It was one from behind the corner flag.
“There is nothing there. I’ve got to admit, when I first seen it, I thought, okay, that’s worth a review. I have a look at it.
“But looking at it and seeing the best view, which was never published, nothing whatsoever.
“So why are we not getting that? Because whoever’s providing, I know it’s Hawkeye who had done it, why are they not showing the referee every angle possible?
“The fact that you and I can see this on a Sunday morning, looking at it, well, why was the referee not shown it?
“Because that footage exists. So yeah, entirely wrong. And I actually feel sorry for Don.
“And you know what, you could almost feel sorry for VAR there, because I would like to think that if VAR had seen that, they wouldn’t have allowed it. They would not have allowed it. That was a goal.”
VAR raises more questions than answers
Celtic boss, Brendan Rodgers, called out VAR once again at the weekend as he witnessed the refereeing technology appear to get another decision wrong.
In the 3-0 win over Rangers earlier this season, VAR also got involved in chalking off a Kyogo Furuhashi goal as the ex-referees labelled the VAR operation in Scotland as ‘tin pot’.
It seems that for all the SFA and Willie Collum are trying now to be more transparent with hoe the video referee is being applied, VAR continues to raise more questions than it answers this season by getting big calls wrong again at the weekend.
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