Robbie Neilson can’t say what he really thought of Colin Steven’s performance in charge of Dundee United vs Hearts or he’d be banned for “ten matches.”
The whistler twice changed his mind on penalty awards to either team after lengthy trips to the VAR pitchside monitor. He awarded Hearts a spot kick on the stroke of half-time when former Jambo Arnaud Djoum slid in as Cammy Devlin turned inside him, and blocked his attempted pass with both of his supporting arms. Steven gave the spot-kick, only to reverse his call after being called over to the monitor.
It happened again after the break, this time Steven giving a foul against Craig Gordon despite the Hearts captain beating Steven Fletcher to the ball before the two collided. Gordon appeared to suffer an horrific leg break as a result and was stretchered off receiving gas and air. Steven then took an age to watch the incident back. He finally came to the conclusion that most in the ground had done minutes earlier, which was that it wasn’t a foul on Fletcher.
