SOME of you may think that the following is based on my bitterness as a Scotland supporter, and the simmering rage...
supporter, and the simmering rage still bubbling away inside of me over Scott McTominay’s disallowed goal against Spain on Thursday night.
It isn’t even so much the decision to disallow the McTominay goal that still rankles. By the tiniest of margins, it appears that Jack Hendry was indeed offside. But it is the way that VAR was used to hunt for the merest infraction – any infraction - to disallow a goal that a Spanish goalkeeper wasn’t saving supposing prime Iker Casillas and Victor Valdes joined Unai Simon between the sticks. Simon didn’t even try.
Even if Hendry was offside, was he interfering with play? I will never be convinced that his positioning or proximity to Simon had any bearing whatsoever on the ball finding the top corner of the net. So, having studied the frame-by-frame footage, UEFA can bleat on all they like about the decision being technically ‘correct’, but in no way was justice served.
No matter, we welcome all from the dark side who have now seen the light when it comes to VAR. The depressing fact though is that the authorities – both foreign and domestic - are never likely to cross that divide. The response was a single line: 'The goal was ruled out for offside.' At the time of publication, a request to answer the points raised remains unanswered. As so many things do until we have more transparency.
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