Former Rangers player Ally McCoist has criticised the 'embarrassing' decision not to award Rangers a penalty and send off Cammy Kerr in last month's 2-2 draw with Livingston.
Towards the end of the match away at Livi, as Mikey Moore raced through on goal, Kerr brought him down without getting a touch on the ball.
Replying to a clip of the VAR audio of the incident via his official Instagram account, McCoist said: "Forget the bias and nonsense you'll get, this is why you need people who know the game, play, or have played the game at a good level and have a degree of when to implement common sense to be involved.
"Embarassing frankly."
Reacting to the decision via the SFA's VAR review show, head of referees Willie Collum admitted that while the award of no penalty was correct, Kerr should have been sent off.
He said: "Firstly, the VAR team need to work really hard to get an idea of whether this challenge is outside or inside, because the naked eye watching, you could easily think it was a penalty kick.
"This is the initial point of contact here, so it's clearly outside. I've heard some debate that Cammy Kerr then makes further contact with the trailing leg inside the penalty area, but again, it's no holding, it's no pulling.
"So it's this initial contact, so this is 100 per cent outside the area. It cannot be a penalty kick.
"For us, though, the VAR team should then recommend an on-field review. And the on-field review should be for denying an obvious goalscoring opportunity.
"Probably being so focused on getting the decision - it's such a crucial decision at this stage in the game - about getting a penalty kick or not - then they kind of don't look in enough detail at the DOGSO.
"For us, this should have been an on-field review, a restart with a direct free-kick to Rangers outside the box, and a red card for Cammy Kerr."
Share