Ally McCoist insists former star players should be asked to step in to save VAR and put some common-sense back into the game.
And the former Rangers boss pledged to lead the way by offering his services alongside Record Sport pundit Chris Sutton for next month’s Old Firm clash. Another weekend of high profile VAR controversies across Scottish football had the television and radio pundit admitting it’s wishful thinking but he’d prefer to see the entire system scrapped. A host of incidents at Motherwell, Celtic and Kilmarnock had fans up in arms over decisions which were referred to a studio match official and McCoist is adamant the whistlers would benefit from the help from those who’ve played the professional game.
He said: “I’m going to put my cards on the table - I thought it was going to be a good thing, I genuinely did. I said to myself: ‘Anything that rights a wrong has got to be a good thing. We can’t argue about that.
