The Man City game had a handball at the edge of the box. It looked in to me. VAR couldn't tell, so no penalty was awarded.
That one, which came off O'Riley's hip first, looked outside the box to me. Yet Scottish VAR could work out that it was in the box and was a handball.
Celtic were denied an absolute stonewaller as well with Ralston getting shoved in the back with two hands. He made the most of it... as he should, but that doesn't change the fact it was a foul. Compared to the frees given any time a Celtic player went near the opposition, it was borderline assault.
I'm loathe to compare it to the treatment the vermin get but they got a free kick when one of their hammer throwers volleyed a St Mirren player in the box. VAR wasn't asked a fuckin thing. Of course they got their VAR penalty - I thought it was a foul. I seem to be in the minority though as most, including the ref, thought it was a dive. In any case, there was a blatant foul in the move building up to it.... not given.
It's fuckin ridiculous now. Unconscious bias has now moved to very conscious bias. The excuse of it just being incompetence rather than cheating is now less credible. Given the proven history of cheating in Scotland, you'd need to be pretty stupid to think everything was on the level.
Just get impartial officials in and VAR won't be a problem.
