Scottish football loves a bogeyman and it’s clear we’ve got a new one. It used to be the Compliance Officer who was seen as this shadowy figure plotting against YOUR team from some secret bunker buried inside Hampden.
Scooby Doo and the crew pulled the mask off that one a while back and it turned out to be just a lawyer trying to do an impossible job of pleasing everyone in a nation where every club thinks the powers that be are out to get them. Now we’ve got VAR and it’s full on panto season. BOOOOOO… It’s behind you.
Aberdeen and Rangers both howled for penalties, Celtic fans have been digging out the IFAB rule books to pore over an offside in a game they won. We’re less than a week back but the bogeyman is busier than Santa's grotto at Silverburn. Except it’s not really VAR at work here. Sure, it’s being checked and the folk working the buttons are talking in the ears of officials. But all of the decisions are not just simply black and white, yes or no, answers that another look can sort out.
