Willie Collum to confess Rangers penalty howler as SFA top brass make astonishing VAR admission
SFA top brass admit that VAR will “never” be perfect – as referees chief Willie Collum prepares to confess his officials made a huge cup final howler at Hampden.
Chief executive Ian Maxwell and president Mike Mulraney appeared to accept that Rangers should have been awarded a potentially game-changing penalty in extra time of Sunday’s epic Old Firm showpiece for the Premier Sports Cup. And Collum is expected to admit that his men inside Clydesdale House should have told ref John Beaton to point to the spot when Liam Scales dragged Vaclav Cerny to the ground on the edge of Celtic’s box with the rivals locked at 3-3.
Alan Muir and Frank O’Connor – the men in charge of the remote controls – have already been axed from Collum’s top flight rota for this weekend’s fixtures and their boss is expected to confirm, as part of his latest VAR review, they are paying the price for Sunday’s blunder.
Rangers new chief executive Patrick Stewart has already fired off a letter to the SFA demanding an explanation but Mulraney and Maxwell have put it down to human error and admit that factor can never be eradicated – while insisting this latest flash point won’t spark another war with the Ibrox club.
Maxwell said: “There is always the sensationalised bit about clubs going to war with the SFA. What does that actually mean? If a club are unhappy with any refereeing decision they phone Willie and have a conversation with him about the whats and the whys. Sometimes they are right to be unhappy, sometimes they are not. Then it’s done. There is no war, there is no lasting debate about it.”
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