Cameron Carter-Vickers expressed the Celtic players’ instant emotions following VAR’s decision to award a penalty for a handball by Tomoki Iwata at Tynecastle this past weekend. Pundits, former professional football players, and Brendan Rodgers have all widely criticised VAR’s decision to step in and advise match referee Don Robertson that he had made a glaring mistake.While many football supporters in the stadium and at home were perplexed by the penalty call, Carter-Vickers has revealed the exact emotions that the Celtic (and Hearts) players were experiencing as they awaited the end of the VAR check.“I would like the referee to stick with his original decision, especially when he had a clear view of it the first time around,” Carter-Vickers stated [Daily Record print edition, page 50].
“I doubt that any player on the pitch was aware of who had handballed it.”On the pitch, most people believed it to be Ali Johnston.Of course it wasn’t; Tomo was the one.Your arms automatically raise when you jump for the ball.In addition, a lot of pushing and shoving occurs, which has the potential to move your body and give the impression that it is moving in the direction of the ball when it isn’t.I fail to see why a referee needs to go to a monitor at all if he has seen it clearly the first time. “That is fair enough if he hasn’t seen it, if he has only seen it through bodies, or if he hasn’t had a good angle.”I mean, even today, I still don’t get why VAR was involved in not just this judgement but also in Celtic’s penalty award and Hyunjun Yang’s dismissal.All three were absurd, and now that Celtic is contesting the South Korean’s order to leave, supporters will be hoping that this week at least one injustice will be made right.
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