Rangers should have had a penalty during extra-time of the Premier Sports Cup final. That is clear.
The SFA are set to admit there was a VAR blunder as officials failed to intervene after John Beaton awarded just a free-kick for Liam Scales’ tug on Vaclav Cerny.
That has come after incoming Rangers CEO Patrick Stewart contacted the Scottish FA looking for answers over the debacle.
And the SFA have also taken action on the VAR officials that cocked up as Alan Muir and Frank Connor have been dropped from this weekend’s Premiership fixtures.
Immediately after the game, onlookers including former whistler Bobby Madden said Rangers had been done out of a “100% penalty.”
Now, even a former Celtic star has echoed some of the comments and agreed Gers should have had a penalty.
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Mark Wilson offers new insight on Rangers penalty blunder
Wilson was working at the game and had eyes on the VAR screen that commentators get to watch alongside the action.
The former defender points out as a factual decision, i.e. being inside or outside the box, it wouldn’t even need to go to a VAR review.
But he says nothing even came up on the VAR screen as the decision just appeared to be glossed over.
Speaking on Open Goal, he said: “The factual decision is it’s a penalty, it doesn’t even need to go to the screen.
“See at the time? Because where we’re sitting we’ve got the screen in front of us and it’s delayed like three seconds to what’s going on in the game.
“So we look right away because you think ‘that must be close’. But the replay seemed so quick, we’ve we’ve even got the VAR because Lenny (Neil Lennon) and Alan Hutton is just in front of us doing the co-comms.
“But I didn’t even see anything flash up. It was almost like it was just brushed aside.”
Date set for SFA admission on Rangers mistake
With The Scotsman claiming the governing body have already admitted the mistake to Rangers, that information will soon be made public.
Referees’ chief Willie Collum is set to do his VAR Review Show this week and will address the issue then.
While the Key Match Incident Panel’s findings will be published on Friday.
The Scotsman reports adds that no explanation as been able to be given to Gers other than the officials making an error of judgement.
