SFA told VAR doesn’t understand football after Auston Trusty’s Celtic red card

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Former Hearts boss Robbie Neilson has weighed in on Auston Trusty’s Celtic red card with some blunt truth for VAR.

Neilson was asked his thoughts about the controversial Celtic Park VAR call and said that Trusty should never have walked for his reaction to being held at a Hibs corner.

Celtic’s SFA appeal failed and Trusty is now set to miss crucial matches for the Bhoys as the title race heats up.

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But Neilson believes that should not even be the case with a dose of harsh truths for the VAR operators.

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Robbie Neilson slams VAR over Trusty’s Celtic Park red card

As Celtic figure out how to deal with losing Trusty for three games, Neilson tells the VAR operators that they just don’t understand football.

Neilson told The Scottish Football Podcast, “I didn’t think it was a red card, no. I don’t think it was. I think it’s difficult because we’re getting to a stage at the moment where the referee is in the stadium and the environment and the intensity, you know, and then you have the guys on VAR are 60 miles away in an office where there’s no intensity.

“So they don’t feel the game. The referee has got to be allowed to referee the game. And if he sees the incident, which Celtic are saying he said he did, then that should be it.”

VAR slammed for making Celtic Park call ’60 miles away’

While Celtic fans could understand Trusty’s reaction, Neilson said VAR would have had a better grasp of their decision if they were actually inside the stadium.

“So for me, there’s always physicality within the game,” continued Neilson, “People grab each other, people push each other.

“It’s just the nature of the game. It’s got to be like that, it’s physical. But I just feel that at times, VAR is intervening in certain situations that they don’t feel the game.

“They don’t feel the intensity of the game, the speed of the game, the passion of the game, because it’s, you know, John was talking about the Rangers Hearts game.

“But if you’re sitting watching it in an office 60 miles away, you don’t feel that tension, you don’t feel the passion, because the players feed off the crowd, they feed off the energy.”

Now that Celtic’s appeal has been thrown out, Trusty faces an anxious wait on the sidelines as the American will hope his suspension will not cost his team in the title run-in.