It hasn't taken long for a couple of Premiership clubs to pull the plug on VAR ahead of this weekend’s Scottish Cup ties.
Dundee United and Livingston have balked at the £10,000 cost of using the replay tech for their fifth-round clashes against Killie and Inverness, leaving Rangers and Celtic as the only top-flight outfits staging last-16 ties with telly officials on duty. But Craig McPherson can’t blame United and Livi for their reluctance to shell out, saying: “I have every sympathy for the clubs opting not to use VAR this weekend.
“So far it’s proved to be more trouble than it’s worth with all these ridiculous handball decisions being given when they’d never have been awarded without VAR. In general I’m in favour of TV technology but the trouble in Scotland is we’ve still got the same dodgy officials off the park trying to correct the mistakes made by their equally-poor pals on it.”
