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1. dessybhoy on 26th January 2026 11:58 am

   VAR official has a case to answer against Celtic
2. Paul67 on 26th January 2026 12:01 pm

   new article posted.
3. Timbhoy163 on 26th January 2026 12:09 pm

   After listning to Martin Oneils comments ,when a blogger ask him about 3 or 4 players coming ,Martin saying that it might not the numbers could be less,well ill say this if thats the boards intention ,then im pretty sure we will not win the league,my guess the Govan mob will be victors,i hope im wrong ,but this crop of players that are first team players wont stop them,hopefully there is a takeover by real Celtic Men and Women ,there will be a complete clearout up at lennoxtown ,a new coaching and manager staff in all areas ,and most important quality siginings ,
4. the long wait is over on 26th January 2026 12:19 pm

   Sutton 1888

    

    

   The rules are really clear here:-

    

    

   Taken from IFAB website

    

    

   “A video assistant referee (VAR) is a match official, with independent access to match footage, who may assist the referee only in the event of a ‘clear and obvious error’ or ‘serious missed incident’ in relation to:

    

    

   a. Goal/no goal

    

    

   b. Penalty/no penalty

    

    

   c. Direct red card (not second yellow card/caution)

    

    

   d. Mistaken identity (when the referee cautions or sends off the wrong player of the offending team)”

    

    

   Obviously we are talking about Para. c. here.

    

    

   The criteria are where the decision relates to a “clear and obvious error’ or ‘serious missed incident’.

    

    

   Clearly, McLean didn’t miss the incident ( he gave a yellow) so it’s the clear and obvious error test.

    

    

   McLean had a decent line of sight to the incident and was sufficiently far away from it to be able to have a decent overview of the other Celtic players ( arguably he was too far away to decide if it was a foul in the first place. That’s a different matter and could have been looked at as a clear or obvious error but it presumably was neither clear nor obvious that no foul had occurred so, rightly , that decision stood).

    

    

   He decided it was a yellow and so he must have decided , in that instant, that either Scales or Murray , or both, might have been able to prevent a goal , allowing for the speed and direction of the ball. I don’t know whether the Ref factors in , or is allowed to factor in, what he knows or assumes about the respective players pace.

    

    

   Scales or Murray might or might not ,in the event, have been able to cover but I fail to see how any review could say definitively that they wouldn’t have done so, so that the first decision was a “clear and obvious” error as might be the case if McLean had , as an extreme example , been a little unsighted and on review had realised that one of the Celtic players was in fact a Hearts player.

    

    

   Long story short – by any objective standard the on-field decision might have been right or might have been wrong but it certainly wasn’t ” a clear and obvious error” and should have stood.