Fabio Silva Rangers penalty award shows VAR has gone too far as ex EPL referee claims our whistlers are SCARED

Former English Premier League referee Jeff Winter reckons Scottish whistlers are TERRIFIED by VAR - and reckons the recent controversial Rangers penalty in the Old Firm derby sums up booth interference overstepping the mark.

Winter has watched the best refs in the business go to pieces with crazy calls made by the men operating off the pitch. Aberdeen and St Johnstone fans protested at their home grounds on Saturday against the SFA’s use of the technology, first rolled out in October 2022.

The action follows condemnation of VAR by the Dons and Motherwell, who questioned whether it could continue in its current form. Winter agrees "radical" change is essential this summer - and reckons that will be a relief to the refs. Winter reckons the controversial Fabio Silva penalty in last week’s Old Firm game sums up VAR overstepping the mark. John Beaton was persuaded by Nick Walsh he’d made the wrong call on the field to caution Silva.

But Winter explained that’s simply a difference of opinion. He told https://cryptocasino.ltd/: “If you got 100 expert views on that Rangers penalty, you’d maybe get 60 saying it was and 40 saying it wasn’t. So the fact the referee is in ‘the 40’ rather than ‘the 60’? You can’t say it’s an obvious error. It’s just the referee making a decision!

“The match referee has become superfluous to the game. VAR is not being used for what it was intended - correcting obvious errors. The most famous was Thierry Henry in the World Cup qualifier. Blind side of referee, blind side of linesman, a deliberate handball. Now all we do is give the decision - if cameras work and if they’ve got the right angles - to the man in the stand.

“As they make that timid trek to the screen, I see confusion, dread and fear.