Jens Berthel Askou’s rant about VAR in Scotland has shown a different side of the Celtic-linked Motherwell boss.
His side lost just their second home game of the season on Saturday, as John McGlynn’s Falkirk guaranteed their place in the top six post-split.
Things could’ve been completely different if a controversial decision not to award them a penalty for a tackle on Tawanda Maswanhise had gone the other way, however.
Reflecting on it, Askou was incensed that VAR didn’t appear to have access to the same cameras as the club.
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Asked what things he was unhappy about after the game, the Dane said: “I think there were plenty. There was an opportunity to give them a yellow card, where Eli [Just] gets wiped out completely.
“I know it’s normal football that you get this at the beginning of every game, but it doesn’t really happen anywhere else in society.
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“But because it’s earlier in the day, you don’t get stopped by the whatever. But apparently in football it’s different.
“Then, for me, the decisive moment, I think, is when JT [Maswanhise] gets wiped out [on] his standing leg from [Liam] Henderson after seven minutes. We’re one-nil down.
“That’s a stonewall penalty. Now we have some images, and apparently we have better cameras than the most important cameras; the ones supposed to catch this.
“I really, really, don’t understand why we can’t catch these things. He’s free, he takes a touch, his standing leg gets wiped out, and that’s a penalty and potential red card.
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“It would’ve changed the game completely. There’s arguments for giving a penalty to them at the end, but there’s also a lot of arguments that it’s quite soft.
“It’s just outwith our reach. So we will keep trusting and hoping that if we keep doing our job good enough – and that has to be better than it was today – then eventually some of the things we can’t control will go our way.”
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