"The referee, as he told me on Sunday, has seen the incident. It is not as if he hadn't seen it, he is watching it. He is asked by a very excited man on VAR, saying: Delay, delay, delay, delay.' They ask him [the referee] and he says: It's nothing, I'm just going to have a word with the players.' Then he has to trot over to change his mind. It is ridiculous."
"I am all for people that missed something dramatic in a game, that constitutes something they should have a look at. But when a referee sees the incident himself then what he is being asked to do is: No, you didn't see that. You saw something else.' That has got to be debilitating for a referee. It has got to be."
"In time we won't need a referee. VAR will do it from wherever they are doing it from, because that is what they did. They have asked the referee to overturn something that he has actually seen. It is not as if he missed the incident which of course would be a different issue."
Celtic manager Martin O'Neill strongly criticized VAR's implementation in Scottish football following Auston Trusty's red card dismissal against Hibernian. The incident occurred when Trusty reacted to Jamie McGrath's contact during a corner, and referee Matthew MacDermid initially deemed it unworthy of sanction. However, VAR official Grant Irvine prompted a review, leading MacDermid to overturn his decision. O'Neill argues this process is fundamentally flawed because the on-field referee had already witnessed the incident. He contends that VAR should only intervene when referees miss dramatic events, not when they consciously decide no action is warranted. O'Neill believes this undermines referee authority and creates a debilitating dynamic where officials are pressured to reverse their own judgments.
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