The 3 big St Mirren vs Celtic VAR calls as one penalty slammed and 'ridiculous' flashpoint sparks confusion

It was an emphatic day at the office for Celtic against St Mirren but it was a match littered with big VAR calls from referee David Dickinson and video official Andrew Dallas.

Mark O'Hara put Saints ahead after Greg Taylor was deemed to have handled the ball inside the box by Dickinson after guidance from Clydesdale House. Then Charles Dunne was sent off for a foul on Kyogo as the last man but it was pulled back from a penalty to free-kick after a VAR check, although there was little debate on the red card.

Its final intervention was in the second half when Alex Gogic got a hold of Oh's shirt in the box. That was reviewed and turned into a penalty kick, which the South Korean forward converted to put the shine on a 5-1 win over St Mirren after Jota, Alistair Johnston, Liel Abada and Matt O'Riley goals. Here's the three big tech decisions during the game in Paisley.

The first of the two properly contentious calls. It took a while to loop back round to it but Dickinson was eventually sent to review the call where Alex Grieve flicked the ball up onto Taylor's hand from close range. It brings up the argument of whether or not it was a natural position, where the IFAB ruling states: "For the purposes of determining handball offences, the upper boundary of the arm is in line with the bottom of the armpit. Not every touch of a player’s hand/arm with the ball is an offence.

"It is an offence if a player deliberately touches the ball with their hand/arm, for example moving the hand/arm towards the ball, touches the ball with their hand/arm when it has made their body unnaturally bigger. A player is considered to have made their body unnaturally bigger when the position of their hand/arm is not a consequence of, or justifiable