Scottish Premiership told what life's REALLY like in comparable league where VAR doesn't exist – the truth of saying NO

Mats Enquist reckons football could copy golf and consider a rollback on VAR as technology chaos tears apart the Scottish game.

Referees boss Crawford Allan is quitting his post as fires rage over the system and SFA chief Ian Maxwell attempts to dull the flames. Civil war has broken out as managers and players fume at VAR decisions, officials are facing constant criticism for making them and fans are sickened by matches being ruined as they wait for those judgements to be made. Twelve months ago, the former General Secretary of Swedish Professional Football Leagues clearly warned of the dangers of using a system not fine-tuned.

Enquist outlined specifically to Record Sport why his country has said no to the technology. Sweden refuses to budge on their resistance to VAR with fans and clubs uninterested in accepting the stoppages, delays, lack of information and outbreaks of unnecessary controversy. Enquist was almost psychic as regards subsequent incidents in Scotland as he explained: “It’s opening up a new box of decisions and discussions. When is handball a handball?

“We had a decision here in the Euro Conference League when there was a free-kick outside the penalty box. “There was no doubt it was a free-kick, but then it was a VAR red card check. Looking from a slow motion perspective, it looked bad and he got the red card. But I started thinking, ‘How many situations on the pitch are equally the same?’ You could look at many tackles throughout the game and you could say 10 or 15 players would have been red carded.

“Suddenly you get two levels of how to decide things. It is not the technology. It is how you use it.”

Fast forward a year and the very examples Enquist gave still wreck the Scottish game. Enquist has now